Invasive identification

[steve1]

Can't remember if it was Garlon 3A or Garlon 4A but the label said it could liquify your eyeballs if you accidentally splashed some in it.
Yes- that's LIQUIFY YOUR EYEBALLS.

Please read and follow all pesticide labels. Chemical companies have to spend million$ of dollar$ making sure they are being prefectly clear on pesticide labels and then many people just ignore them....

[rainyjim]

First is clidemia hirta, or kosters curse

Second looks like tibouchina, or glory bush.

[microage97]

Well I have been clearing things out and keeping stuff down ect, but I have a question. Seems that a vine is sprouting up fast and I am wondering if I need to control it or let it keep the weeds / grass down.

http://www.japanish.org/gallery/Aulii_Lo...161437.jpg
http://www.japanish.org/gallery/Aulii_Lo...161417.jpg

There is an area where it looks like this vine has kept everything down. Thoughts?

[shave_ice]

I forget what it is called, but it is terrible. I can't stand that weed and pull it out whenever I see it. The vine will wrap around plants and smother them.

[bananahead]

the vine directly above is often called 'Stink Maile'
Paederia foetida

its NOT related to the Hawaiian Maile plant, a forest vining shrub in the dogbane-plumeria family...

here is a link
http://wildlifeofhawaii.com/flowers/953/...stinkvine/

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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha

[microage97]

Thanks! I found this: On the island of Hawaii, P. foetida is a very serious weed in nurseries producing ornamental foliage plants (Pemberton, pers. obs.). The weed infests field plantings used for propagation. Control of the weed is very difficult because stock plants are easily injured if herbicides are applied. At times, growers have had to abandon or destroy stock plants that have become overgrown by skunk vine. Florida’s large ornamental foliage industry also could be affected by skunk vine, as would the container plant industries in other states should the weed spread.

http://www.invasiveplants.net/monitor/27SkunkVine.aspx

[Rene Siracusa]

Garlon is very expensive because can only buy five gal. at a time. Look for Ortho Poison Ivy Killer instead. It contains garlon. A pint bottle runs about $13 and you dilute 1/2 c. to 1 gal. water. I use this on both Melasoma, Tibouchina, Clidemia, Strawberry Guava, et al. I make the mixture and then decant into a squeeze bottle, like a dish liquid or shampoo bottle. If the plant is small enough to use a loppers on, apply the herbicide directly to the wound while it is still fresh. For larger plants you can cut down to about a foot off the soil surface and then apply the herbicide. If you don't have a chainsaw or machete, you can strip a girdle of bark off and then apply to the girdled area. Takes a while to fully die back, but in the meantime no viable fruit and no regrowth. This is the method we used with Operation Miconia. Good luck.