Description
• Erect perennial shrub to 3m
• Leaves alternate, to 12cm long, produce unpleasant odour when crushed
• Flowers are yellowish-green, tubular, clustered at branch ends
• Fruit are green oval berries that turn purplish-black when ripe
Flowering Times
• Throughout the year
Control Measure
• Herbicides – most effective method
• Physical – difficult as reshooting and suckering often occurs
Problems
• Extremely toxic to stock – especially cattle
• Invasive, suckering and spreading when disturbed
• Seeds spread by birds and water
• Seed viability rate high
