This plant which is now a very fast growing tree is spreading seedlings everywhere, see photos.
Can anyone advise what it is and what should I do?

you need to reduce your CO2 emissions pronto

Queensland box ?

I've had two of these scrubs at my old place. Very hard to grow here in Adelaide. but once you get them going, they are happy. They don't like hot weather (particularly the box tree). I would love to have them at my new place, but nurserys don't stock them.

Best of luck getting rid of it. No tips from me other than Zero poison.

Yes pittosporum undulata. Not technically a weed on the east coast but grows well and some bush regenerators advocate a bit of thinning to allow other less tough natives room. It's definitely considered a weed on Lord Howe Island.

But jump on the ground asparagus, you've got a lot of that I can see. It overtakes beachside vegetation, a weed of national significance. Dig them up, hang them out to dry. They are so tough. They came via caravan parks, as tough ornamentals to put in hanging baskets and still be alive when you came back to your onsite van once a year. Birds spread the red berries.


www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Animals-and-plants/Pests-and-weeds/asparagus-weeds-management-manual-130486.pdf

elmo said..

Ian K said..
Yes pittosporum undulata. Not technically a weed on the east coast but grows well and some bush regenerators advocate a bit of thinning to allow other less tough natives room. It's definitely considered a weed on Lord Howe Island.

But jump on the ground asparagus, you've got a lot of that I can see. It overtakes beachside vegetation, a weed of national significance. Dig them up, hang them out to dry. They are so tough. They came via caravan parks, as tough ornamentals to put in hanging baskets and still be alive when you came back to your onsite van once a year. Birds spread the red berries.


www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Animals-and-plants/Pests-and-weeds/asparagus-weeds-management-manual-130486.pdf

Yes, kill that mongrel thing!

Poison (lots of), dig all the roots out (that's fun?).

Monitor, repeat as the bastard thing keeps coming back, 4 years later and we're still finding bits.

In WA! Hadn't seen it take hold here yet. Horrified to see it still in hanging baskets. Being watered and fertilized as a prized exhibit! Rather tackle 10 acres of Lantana than 1 of that stuff.

UncleBob said..
Looks to me to be a feral pittosporum, best plucked as soon as spotted or cut close to ground level and the stump treated with roundup or similar. I believe that Don Bourke referred to them as bird poo plants, birds eat the fruit and deposit the seeds far and wide.

Yep, correct. I kill lots of them professionally. Cut the trunk at ground level and paint with straight Roundup . It has to be painted on within 30sec to 1 min. No need to do any digging. Hand pull the smaller ones

Ian K said..

elmo said..
Yep bird dropped at our place, got it in one of our garden beds going crazy, my beloved looked it up, found out what it was and put the exterminate note on it.

Gave it regular sprays of glyphosate at first including some special batches as it just shrugged off the normal batch.

The root mass was mental, bit like a tumor you've got to dig well around it as if you leave a bit there it'll come back.

Still finding stray shoots after 4 years but that's annoying but controllable.

You only have to find the central knuckley woody bit of the big ones. They're not known for resprouting from the water tubers. Once you get a whole lot of little ones though it's hard to find the knuckly bits. Bridal creeper, another of the Asparagus weeds resprouts from the water tubers. On LHI they use a home brew they call TOX, a mixture of glyphosate, brushoff and I think a bit of kero on the bridal creeper. Lots of hand grubbing as well though.

Nah, just brushoff, wetting agent and roundup at the recommended rates. Worked perfectly without witches concoctions ??

kato said..

Ian K said..

elmo said..
Yep bird dropped at our place, got it in one of our garden beds going crazy, my beloved looked it up, found out what it was and put the exterminate note on it.

Gave it regular sprays of glyphosate at first including some special batches as it just shrugged off the normal batch.

The root mass was mental, bit like a tumor you've got to dig well around it as if you leave a bit there it'll come back.

Still finding stray shoots after 4 years but that's annoying but controllable.

You only have to find the central knuckley woody bit of the big ones. They're not known for resprouting from the water tubers. Once you get a whole lot of little ones though it's hard to find the knuckly bits. Bridal creeper, another of the Asparagus weeds resprouts from the water tubers. On LHI they use a home brew they call TOX, a mixture of glyphosate, brushoff and I think a bit of kero on the bridal creeper. Lots of hand grubbing as well though.

Nah, just brushoff, wetting agent and roundup at the recommended rates. Worked perfectly without witches concoctions ??

That was for neat mixes, cutting and painting, frilling and spilling of woody weeds, not sure what was used for spraying denser patches of asparagus on LHI . But everything has been tried on the east coast. We occasionally used something similar to yours. Depends on circumstances. Besides it's more satisfying to dig them out and hang them in the fork of a tree than lug 15 kg of spraypack through the bush for maybe a 50% kill of target and non-target species.

Burn this heretic