- Common Name: Large Ardisia
- Type: Shrub or small Tree
- Status: Weed This introduced Plant has escaped into local bushland. Without natural predators to keep it in check, it is out-competing native Species.
- Size: to 4 m
- Flowers: Mauve, pale pink, white
- Fruit: Berry
- Species List: Heritage Park, BSDoonan, weeds,
Cultural Notes
Native of Asia and Malesia from Japan (Ryuku Islands) to New Guinea and across to southern India.
Identification Notes
Branchlets hairless. Leaves dull, Gland-dotted below, margins Entire; on stalks 0.5–1 cm long.
Leathery Leaves 6–12 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, with margins rolled under; red-tinged new foliage; flowers in umbels in Leaf axils; Corolla (joined Petals) pink or white, lobes 5, Gland-dotted; Fruit, fleshy, single-seeded, about 8 mm wide, turning red as they mature and dark purple to black at maturity.(National Weeds Strategy)
Landscaping Notes
CONTROL METHODS:
Physical: Hand pull seedlings.
Chemical: "In areas with a dense groundcover of seedlings, a broadcast spray of a glyphosate herbicide is effective, but be careful to avoid damaging desirable plants. Mature specimens should be treated with a Basal application of a triclopyhr herbicide mixed with an oil diluent" (Hammer, 1996).
Associated Fauna
Spread by bird- and mammal-dispersed Seed.
