Lantana

Introduced species
Alvin Wong 10GEOM

Origin

Native to Central and South America

One of the most damaging invasive weeds

Date of
arrival and
place

Brought to Australia in 1841 as an ornamental garden

plant
Escaped domestic cultivation and established in the
wild within 20 years
First recorded in the Adelaide Botanic Garden in 1841
By 1891, it was described as the most troublesome
weed in Brisbane

Reason for
introduction

Brought to Australia in 1841 as an ornamental garden

plant
But it had spread over 1600km of the Eastern
Australian coastline by th1 1950s
It was declared noxious around 1920

Present
distribution

 Some economic impacts are lantana infestations cost

more than $104 million per year, land managers
spend more than $17 million per year on lantana
control and raises production costs in the commercial
forestry.

Impact

Some biodiversity impacts are threatening more than

1400 native species and 100 ecosystems which
includes 279 plants and 93 animals in the national
threatened species legislation.
Some social impacts are increasing individual stress
associated with economic loss, threatening culture
heritage areas and reduced aesthetic appeal of
nature areas.

 Accessing and prioritising assets and sites for controls

Manageme
nt

This should ensure that management is directed to

sites with different assets, as opposed to managing a
multiple number of sites that have the same assets
Maintaining areas that are presently free of lantana or
removing isolated infestations

Other Facts

Identifying of lantana types can be hard. You identify

the type of Lantana by the colour of their inner and
outer flowers. They can be pink, white, pink-edged
red, red and orange.

Types of
Lantana

 http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/pestsweeds/Lant
anaFactsheet.htm
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/determinations/L
antanaKtp.htm

Bibliograph
y

http://www.weeds.org.au/WoNS/lantana/docs/bpmprofile.pdf
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