Fellow Cactus Warriors Have you seen the latest issue of RACV's Royal Auto magazine? It contains an alarming article promoting the sale and cultivation of cacti! Online here: https://indd.adobe.com/view/e082e5e2-b0a2-40f6-ac67-487a06376210 We will send a letter to the editor with some facts and a photo, from Tarrangower Cactus Control Group. We're sending...
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Last weekend some of our hardy Cactus Warriors joined forces with our like minded local Landcare Groups to support Landcare Week. Here we were at the Maldon Market braving the cold and inclement weather but still spreading the word. Thanks to Asha from Connecting Country for organising us and thanks...
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A visit to the area by Andy Steed of DEDJRT recently alterted him to the size of the infestation of wheel cactus in our area. Andy suggested that the best way to get the department activated to respond to wheel cactus infestation, was to report it to him. The more...
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Any of the many different cacti species have the potential to escape from an urban garden and cause major environmental destruction, as Wheel Cactus (Opuntia robusta) has done in our region. Vectors such as birds and foxes can easily transport seeds from a garden to local bushland or farm. Often…
This Wheel Cactus is real – no trick photography! This photo hasn’t been photo-shopped or digitally enhanced in any way; Wheel Cactus is now growing in the middle of town! Recently on her daily constitutional, ‘Cactus Warrior Bubbles’ spotted some small Wheel Cactus plants in Chapel Street. Her mother ‘Cactus…
Ian Grenda has forwarded these links to articles about other problem cacti – well worth looking at – one from southern Queensland and one from Western Australia.
Recently the Tarrangower Cactus Control Group (TCCG) was advised that Wheel Cactus plants have been found growing near Marong. This very disturbing fact indicates this “triffid” weed is spreading much further afield, the seeds most likely carried by crows (ravens). Even more alarming, we’ve also been told that sheep are…
