{"id":7090,"date":"2015-01-30T22:07:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/?p=7090"},"modified":"2015-01-30T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T22:07:06","slug":"weed-from-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=7090","title":{"rendered":"Weed from Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Posted<\/strong>\u00a0<b>06\/08\/2011\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>One of the world\u2019s worst weeds has found a home on O`ahu\u2019s north shore.<\/p>\n<p>Early this year, the O`ahu Army Natural Resources Program found <i>Chromolaena odorata<\/i> (also known as Siam weed or devil weed) in the Kahuku Training Area.<\/p>\n<p>The highly invasive weed had not been found before in Hawai`i, but is a well-documented pest across Australia, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Its home range includes Florida, Texas, and Central and South America.<\/p>\n<p>The plant, considered a noxious weed by the state Department of Agriculture (DOA), thrives in open, disturbed areas, grows extremely fast (up to 20 millimeters a day), and is a prolific seed producer.<\/p>\n<p>It releases toxins to inhibit the growth of nearby plants, is toxic to livestock, and may cause rashes and asthma in humans.<\/p>\n<p>In the same family as dandelions, <i>C. odorata<\/i>\u2019s seeds are easily spread by the wind and via tires, backpacks, and footwear.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Army, the O`ahu Invasive Species Committee (OISC), the DOA, and the Bishop Museum\u2019s O`ahu Early Detection project staff have recently issued an <a href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/images\/uploads\/0001cs.jpeg\"><b>alert<\/b><\/a> for the plant and are collaborating to survey and control the pest.<\/p>\n<p>So far, <i>C. odorata<\/i> has been found on a 150-acre area that includes the Army\u2019s training ranges and the Kahuku motocross track. Also, a single plant has been found in Pupukea.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted&nbsp;06\/08\/2011&nbsp; One of the world&rsquo;s worst weeds has found a home on O`ahu&rsquo;s north shore. Early this year, the O`ahu Army Natural Resources Program found Chromolaena odorata (also known as Siam weed or devil weed) in the Kahuku Training Area. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/?p=7090\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[351,25],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-7090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eh-xtra","category-invasives","tag-teresa-dawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/environment-hawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}