Top Page 2 Exotic Pest Plant of the Month 1. 2.
Evergreen shrub to small tree, common escape around homesites.
Is evergreen, fixes its own N fertilizer, can persist under hardwood tree cover. Fruits attractive to animals and can be widely dispersed, so a seed from your suburban homesite could easily become a invader in a rural landscape. This is an ornamental plant whose time has gone. The risk of dispersal and habitat capture is too great for it to still be sold and planted. Many plants are brought here in other materials.