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Prickly pears in Australia at the Australian Weeds Committee; History of prickly pear in Australia - from a New South Wales' perspective; A prickly problem : Dr Jean White-Haney and the prickly pear, State Library of Queensland; Prickly-Pear Experimental Station, Dulacca: report from 1st May, 1915, to 30th June, 1916 / by Jean White-Haney ...
From the Report of the Prickly-pear Travelling Commission. In 1912, Johnston was appointed chairman for a committee, the Prickly-Pear Travelling Commission, formed to investigate control measures for the prickly pear cactus. In 1788, Governor Philip and the early colonists are credited with the introduction of the prickly pear to Australia. The ...
Rose Ethel Janet White-Haney (11 March 1877 – 21 October 1953), known as Jean White-Haney, was a botanist in Queensland, Australia. She was officer-in-charge of the Queensland Board of Advice on Prickly Pear Destruction and helped develop biological control methods for managing the invasive cactus. [1]
Not just the prickly pear: Hudson's Pears - Cylindropuntia tunicata and C. rosea - are also cacti of agricultural significance in Queensland. [ 53 ] Weed management costs the Australian economy A$ 4 billion yearly; weeds are considered the second greatest threat to biodiversity after land clearing.
Opuntia ficus-indica, the species which is the most common culinary source of prickly pear fruits; Consolea, a genus of cacti including species formerly classified in Opuntia; Prickly Pear (British Virgin Islands), the name of an island; Prickly pears in Australia, an invasive plant problem; Prickly Pears, a 1981 Italian comedy film
A young cane toad. The cane toad in Australia is regarded as an exemplary case of an invasive species.Australia's relative isolation prior to European colonisation and the Industrial Revolution, both of which dramatically increased traffic and import of novel species, allowed development of a complex, interdepending system of ecology, but one which provided no natural predators for many of the ...
Opuntia aurantiaca, commonly known as tiger-pear, jointed cactus or jointed prickly-pear, is a species of cactus from South America. [2] The species occurs naturally in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay and is considered an invasive species in Africa and Australia.
Common English names for the plant and its fruit are Indian fig opuntia, Barbary fig, cactus pear, prickly pear, and spineless cactus, among many others. [3] In Mexican Spanish, the plant is called nopal, a name that may be used in American English as culinary terms. Peninsular Spanish mostly uses higo chumbo for the fruit and chumbera for the ...