Trinket Hoard

Not a clue...

Crowds out native plants, forming dense monoculture (Barron, 2007) and impacts on community level processes in streams and rivers where it is present (Hladyz et al., 2011). May produce alleopathic chemicals, preventing native species from growing in soil in which it is present (Hulme, 2009). Hosts a fellow invasive species Phytophthora ramorum (Sudden oak death) which can affect a number of tree species (though not Oak) (Brennan et al., 2008). Control costs in the UK cost ~£560 per ha in 2001 (Dehnen-Schmutz et al., 2004). Honey from bees collecting pollen from Rhododendron may be toxic to humans (Hulme, 2009).

Rhododendron ponticum is the Irish take on kudzu. :/

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