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Forest Management

Gestión de bosques

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Natural Area Weeds

Malezas de Áreas Naturales

Air potato is an invasive plant species in Florida that should be removed from public and private properties to help protect the state's natural areas. It can quickly engulf native vegetation in natural areas, climbing high into mature tree canopies. It produces large numbers of bulbils (aerial tubers), which facilitate its spread and make it extremely difficult to eliminate because new plants sprout from even very small bulbils. It invades a variety of habitats including pinelands and hammocks of natural areas.

Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera)

Brazilian Pepper-Tree

Carrotwood

Chinese Tallow

Melaleuca Management

Manejo de la Melaleuca

Old World Climbing Fern

Helecho trepador Old World

Syngonium (arrowhead vine)

Water Hyacinth

Manejo de jacinto de agua 

Invasive Plants

Organisms

Plants

Plantas

Land Resources

Land

Suelo 

Recursos de la tierra

<p><span>Lands unoccupied by crops, pastures, urban, residential, industrial or transportation facilities. Lands over which man has not extended his complete and permanent domain with his bulldozers, plows and asphalt spreaders.</span></p>

Natural Area Weeds

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Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera)

Brazilian Pepper-Tree

Carrotwood

Chinese Tallow

Invasive Plants

Melaleuca Management

Old World Climbing Fern

Syngonium (arrowhead vine)

Water Hyacinth

Publications

Controlling Invasive Plants in North Florida Forests

Help Protect Florida's Natural Areas from Invasive Plants

Integrated Management of Invasive Plants in Natural Areas of Florida

The UF/IFAS Assessment of Nonnative Plants in Florida's Natural Areas: History, Purpose, and Use

Biology and Control of Indian Jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana): A Weed to Watch in Florida Pastures and Natural Areas

Biology and Control of Japanese Climbing Fern (Lygodium japonicum)

Biology and Control of Ragweed Parthenium in Non-Cropland

Biology, Control and Invasive Potential of Giant Reed (Arundo donax L.) in Florida

Giant Reed (Arundo donax): Biology, Identification, and Management

Identification and Control of Coral Ardisia (Ardisia crenata): A Potentially Poisonous Plant.

Mile-A-Minute (Mikania micrantha): A New Weed in South Florida

Natural Area Weeds: Distinguishing Native and Non-Native "Boston Ferns" and "Sword Ferns" (Nephrolepis spp.)

Natural Area Weeds: Skunkvine (Paederia foetida)

Wetland Weeds: West Indian Marsh Grass (Hymenachne amplexicaulis)

Wildland Weeds: Paper Mulberry, Broussonetia papyrifera

Wright's Nutrush: An Invader of Seasonal Wetlands in Florida

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Forest Management

Vegetation

Weeds

Wildland

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