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bamboo
This is a picture of a young bamboo plant taken last Wednesday at the Bluthenthal wildflower preserve on campus. This plant looks out of place because it is. Bamboo is an exotic invasive species here in North Carolina and it spreads quickly and easily. Additionally, there are no natural consumers of bamboo in this area which makes it even more difficult to contain. According to a Star News article from 2012, a woman who owned a house in Carolina Beach returned to it after several years only to find her yard taken over by bamboo. This news story brought the issue of introducing invasive species for someone’s yard aesthetic to the attention of public officials in the area. The problem was that her neighbor decided to plant some in her yard, and did not control it which made it spread all over her yard. Bamboo is nearly impossible to get rid of once you have it, and you have to control it by either mowing it diligently or by using chemical warfare to kill off what you don’t want.
www.ncwildflower.org/plant_galleries/invasives_list
www.starnewsonline.com/news/20120614/booming-bamboo-a-gro...
bamboo
This is a picture of a young bamboo plant taken last Wednesday at the Bluthenthal wildflower preserve on campus. This plant looks out of place because it is. Bamboo is an exotic invasive species here in North Carolina and it spreads quickly and easily. Additionally, there are no natural consumers of bamboo in this area which makes it even more difficult to contain. According to a Star News article from 2012, a woman who owned a house in Carolina Beach returned to it after several years only to find her yard taken over by bamboo. This news story brought the issue of introducing invasive species for someone’s yard aesthetic to the attention of public officials in the area. The problem was that her neighbor decided to plant some in her yard, and did not control it which made it spread all over her yard. Bamboo is nearly impossible to get rid of once you have it, and you have to control it by either mowing it diligently or by using chemical warfare to kill off what you don’t want.
www.ncwildflower.org/plant_galleries/invasives_list
www.starnewsonline.com/news/20120614/booming-bamboo-a-gro...