07-20-2016, 06:38 AM
The topic of clearing of the land beside the Leilani highway, with the myconia revealed, spurred this thread:
Obviously the albesia is our new #1 invasive plant/tree problem. I've seen people cut the albesia and use the logs as nitrogen fixers/ garden bed forms in large rectangles. The new growth would be maintained and cut off while the logs send roots and nitrogen nodules into the soil. Myconia, couldn't find uses, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miconia_calvescens seems to have quietly been ignored for awhile because of our new weed-tree problems but is listed as the worst invasive weed in Hawaii still. Don't have any around my neighborhood though.
What are the other weed trees? There's cecropia (looks like papaya leafs kinda). I heard you can make musical instruments from it's wood, and the leaves have medicinal use. And there's the one they call gunpowder tree? Not sure of the scientific name of that one. Wonder why it earned that name?
One plant that I've been dealing with around my place lately is the Kosters-curse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clidemia_hirta
They pull up pretty easy but there's just so darn many of them. Too tough to weed-wack down too. However the berries are edible and delicious. Uses: makes a tasty curse-berry pie. Unfortunately the birds love the berries too and they spread so easily.
Anything else popping up in your yard that "shouldn't" be there?
Obviously the albesia is our new #1 invasive plant/tree problem. I've seen people cut the albesia and use the logs as nitrogen fixers/ garden bed forms in large rectangles. The new growth would be maintained and cut off while the logs send roots and nitrogen nodules into the soil. Myconia, couldn't find uses, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miconia_calvescens seems to have quietly been ignored for awhile because of our new weed-tree problems but is listed as the worst invasive weed in Hawaii still. Don't have any around my neighborhood though.
What are the other weed trees? There's cecropia (looks like papaya leafs kinda). I heard you can make musical instruments from it's wood, and the leaves have medicinal use. And there's the one they call gunpowder tree? Not sure of the scientific name of that one. Wonder why it earned that name?
One plant that I've been dealing with around my place lately is the Kosters-curse. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clidemia_hirta
They pull up pretty easy but there's just so darn many of them. Too tough to weed-wack down too. However the berries are edible and delicious. Uses: makes a tasty curse-berry pie. Unfortunately the birds love the berries too and they spread so easily.
Anything else popping up in your yard that "shouldn't" be there?