Araujia sericifera

Moth Plant at Kaleen, ACT

Araujia sericifera at Kaleen, ACT - 29 Jul 2022
Araujia sericifera at Kaleen, ACT - 29 Jul 2022
Araujia sericifera at Kaleen, ACT - 29 Jul 2022
Araujia sericifera at Kaleen, ACT - 29 Jul 2022
Araujia sericifera at Kaleen, ACT - 29 Jul 2022
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Identification history

Araujia sericifera 30 Jul 2022 MichaelMulvaney
Araujia sericifera 29 Jul 2022 EricZurcher

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Significant sighting

MichaelMulvaney noted:

30 Jul 2022

New location of this significant weed with a very high potential to spread.

User's notes

Climbing through Cootamundra wattle

5 comments

Ben88 wrote:
   1 Aug 2022
ACT biosecurity has treated and taken what seed heads could be reached for disposal.
Will follow up.
EricZurcher wrote:
   1 Aug 2022
Glad to hear it has been treated. Did they also deal with the nearby specimen on Park Street, which appears in iNaturalist mappings, but doesn't seem to show up on this site? The Park Street specimen was still there when I checked this morning (1 August).

I'm a little puzzled as to why this record is labelled as "Kaleen", when it is actually in Belconnen (meaning the suburb, not the region).
   1 Aug 2022
Hi Eric, the map is broken up into a grid and each square of the grid is given a name (such as ‘Kaleen’). Your sighting is in the far bottom left hand corner of the Kaleen map which covers many suburbs other than Kaleen. If you type in Kaleen into the ‘quick search’ you can see the boundaries of the Kaleen map and all the sightings in that area.
MichaelT wrote:
   2 Aug 2022
Hi @EricZurcher, thank you for your ongoing support.
The plant on Park Street has been treated by Biosecurity and Rural Services.
   8 Aug 2022
Thanks MichaelT much appreciated

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Additional information

  • 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height

Species information

  • Araujia sericifera Scientific name
  • Moth Plant Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Exotic
  • Major weed or pest
  • Up to 762.57m Recorded at altitude
  • 111 images trained Machine learning
  • In flower

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