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Porcelain Berry
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Issues Caused
What are exotic species?
- These plants shade out native plants like shrubs and small trees.
- It blankets existing plants and kills them by blocking them from receiving any sunlight.
- These plants also climb up trees and weaken them by blocking sunlight.
Porcelain Berry
The Porcelain Berry
Where did it come from?
- Dark green, heart shaped leaves.
- In summer, small, greenish-white flowers bloom in clusters.
- Small, shiny, berries from colors pink to purple to blue grow during fall.
- This plant originated in Northeast Asia: China, Korea, Japan, and Russia.
- It was brought to the US in the 1870's as a landscape plant.
- It is also easily spread by birds, who are attracted to the colors of the berries.
- Exotic species are organisms that have been introduced by human activity into an ecosystem where they aren't naturally active.
- These species affect an ecosystem by not having any natural predators, they are then able to use all the resources of a habitat and reproduce without anything controlling their population. They will use resources that other species need to survive.
Invasive species
Solutions
- Porcelain berries are not allowed to be planted.
- Young vines are pulled to control the growth onto other plants.
- Herbicides like glyphosate and triclopyr are applied to help cut the vines or to kill the plants.
Sources
- "Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources." Porcelain Berry. N.p., n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2016.
- United States. National Park Service. "Porcelainberry (Ampelopsis Brevipedunculata)." National Parks Service. U.S. Department of the Interior, n.d. Web. 01 Nov. 2016.
- https://www.fws.gov/delawarebay/Pdfs/Porcelain-berry_Fact_Sheet%20.pdf
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