When most of us think of Valentine’s Day, we think of long-stemmed red Roses, pink Peonies, White Daisies, Red Tulips or Carnations, Sunflowers or quaint Forget-Me- Nots, we don’t normally think of weeds but there are weeds out there with heart-shaped leaves growing on suffocating vines which are anything but romantic, and know how to impose themselves on way up high into the upper canopies of the trees which make it very hard to ‘forget’ about them!
More commonly known as the Aerial Yam or Air Potato (due to the fruits they bear), today we look at the effects of an exotic vine weed which can cause quite an impact in our rainforests if we let them run rampant.
Image Credits:
- Image on Graphic: Growing up a tree: By Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6115986
- Slideshow image of Flower: By Dinesh Valke from Thane, India – Dioscorea bulbifera, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51711341
- Slideshow image of Yam/Potato on the vine: By Forest & Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6115988
- Slideshow image of Yam/Potato dissected: Dioscorea bulbifera L. by Ahmad Fuad Morad, Bukit Tagar, Selangor, Malaysia on flic.kr https://flic.kr/p/jmDJ68
In the meantime, be sure to check out all of Brooke’s other Featured Weeds via the links and slideshow below:
regenaustralia.com.au 