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RE: our lords candle/pampas

Yes Robert those claims could well be true
We have a serious problem with Cortaderia selloana in our swamps and
wetlands in
Western Australia and it IS SEEDING!  We collected seed and germinated
it.
For years we had never seen seedlings just regrowth from dumped plants
people took down to the 
bush and dumped.  Two or three years ago we heard claims that pampas was
spreading around Albany
and it was seedlings!  and they were!
Since then we have found many locations with plants with the male
flowers where previously there were only the female flowers evident,
although these plants are more often smaller and runtier.

Seed production is phenomenal on the larger plants.
Pampas is also a real problem in New Zealand where forest workers will
not work in some sections as they get cut to pieces by the sharp
serrated leaves, can't blame them!

Cheers, Rod
Rod Randall
Weed Risk Assessment
Weed Science Group, Agriculture Western Australia
Home Page  http://www.agric.wa.gov.au/progserv/plants/weeds/Weedsci.htm

             "I weed..."

> ----------
> From: 	Robert Crane
> Reply To: 	rcrane2@ix.netcom.com
> Sent: 	Thursday, 25 December 1997 7:49 AM
> To: 	medit-plants@ucdavis.edu
> Subject: 	Re: our lords candle
> 
> Barry - re your sightings of "Our lords candle" at Big Sur
> 
> I also noticed a few years ago at Big Sur all over the dry
> mountain sides as you describe grey green stiff clumps of grass
> with "spectacular" flowers but it was Pampas Grass, not a Yucca.
> Could you have been seeing Cortaderia jubata (or less likely, C. 
> selloana), both listed as invasive weeds by the California
> Exotic Pest Plant Council.   They are natives of Argentina.  
> Living in the Tamaulipan plain of South Texas, Yuccas we have
> and it is no yucca. Yucki maybe.  Also a very big problem in
> Australia, this plant.  Some people claim C. selloana won't escape
> but there are claims it is self-seeding in Northern Cal.  
> Check out www.nps.gov/redw/pampas.htm for pic and info.
>
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