Ferns
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'" <perennials@mallorn.com>
- Subject: Ferns
- From: "* D* G* <D*@PSS.Boeing.com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 06:32:11 -0700
> Fla. officials are targeting Lygodium microphyllum, Old World
> climbing fern. The invasive, viny plant probably entered the state in
> Jupiter or Stuart in the 1950s as a nursery product. It makes a
> handsome hanging basket, but the Southeast Asia native doesn't stay
> confined. Today it blankets 39,000 acres in Fla.. Most of it is along
> the
> [East] Coast, but it's spread into South Fla. and there's also
> evidence of
> some in West and Central Fla., said Randall Stocker, head of the
> Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants at Univ. of Fla. It grows
> anywhere -- in sun or shade, wet soil or dry -- and forms a near-
> impenetrable canopy. It kills plants and trees by blocking the light
> they
> need to survive.
>
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