Solanum mauritianum
naturalizedSolanaceae

Solanum mauritianum

bugweed

Naturalized (non-native)non-native

Introduced and now reproducing on its own in the wild.

Solanum mauritianum is a small tree or shrub native to South America, including Northern Argentina, Southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It has become a widespread invasive weed in Azores Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Hawai‘i, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Réunion Island, Mauritius, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand, India, Sri Lanka and several southern African countries. Its common names include earleaf nightshade (or "ear-leaved nightshade"), woolly nightshade, flannel weed, bugweed, tobacco weed, tobacco bush, wild tobacco...

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Controlling Solanum mauritianum

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Best reported: cut-stump with 20% G4, 80% MSO — one report from KMWP.

  1. 5.0cut-stump20% G4, 80% MSOTriclopyrG41 report · 1 observed
    KMWP
    • 5successful. Recommended method · KMWP · observed · 2016-02-23
      Size: varietyHabitat: mesic

Ratings are the reporting organisation’s own, on a 5-point scale. Always follow the product label — the label is the law. See these 1 rows in the full table

Gallery · 10 · iNaturalist
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Where documented · 17 ahupuaʻa
documented occurrences · iNaturalist + GBIF · iNaturalist 19 · GBIF 35 records