What's Happening in Cannington, WA…

The Boneseed Blitz for 2012 was carried out in many parts of Western Australia in the second week of September, cracking down on an evergreen shrub which has become a major threat to Australia’s biodiversity.

The plant can reach three metres in height and has oval, fleshy leaves with teeth around the edges. Each plant can produce up to 50,000 seeds. The shrub grows in dense clumps which stifle native plants, preventing their regeneration.

Once the seeds escape from the gardens of private residences, wind, birds and animals can carry them rapidly to other areas. As the seeds are easily germinated, they have even been known to take hold in industrialised areas, such as Welshpool in the Shire of Kalamunda.

The Blitz is keen to stress that boneseed plants are easy to pull from the ground as their roots are quite shallow. Plants that are too large to pull out by hand can be chopped down and the stumps sprayed with herbicide. Any seedlings growing at a site where large plants have been removed should be pulled out as soon as possible.

The Australian Weeds Committee has been encouraging the use of flyer printing and banner printing to alert local governments in all states to the dangers of boneseed and how it can be eliminated. Any interested individuals or organisations can download the Posters and Flyers in PDF format, and take them to printing companies. By using the material in this way, information on the dangers of boneseed can be made readily available.
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