RE: [Aroid-l] Invasive plants

From: MossyTrail at cs.com on 2004.09.07 at 05:52:48(12173) "ron" wrote: >To all of those who think it's OK to grow "just a few" invasive plants "at >home", >by owning it, you assume the responsibility of quarantining it until you are >confident that it will not be invasive, because it may escape. I believe >this testing should be left to the trusted professional grower. >We all take great pride in our collection. Lets also take great pride in >our environment! DON'T GROW INVASIVE PLANTS!! Ron Kessler > If I may add something... Even the professional grower may not be able to keep a handle on the plants being tested. Where I currently live, in the Hawaiian Islands, one of the most troublesome weed shrubs is Clidemia, also known as Coster's curse. It was originally imported legally by a botanic garden, but escaped. Now it is too widespread and abundant to control. You have to go pretty high into the mountains to find much native vegetation in Hawaii anymore; most of our rainforests are reminiscent of the fictional island of New Switzerland (the setting for _The Swiss Family Robinson_) -- that is, an impossible mixture of every part of the globe. Incidentally, another of our worst weeds is an aroid popular with plant enthusiasts: the familiar Epipremnum aureum, with habits akin to the kudsu you Southerners know and love. Jason Hernandez +More Naturalist-at-Large _______________________________________________ Aroid-l mailing list Aroid-l@gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l

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