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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 ...
During 1920 to 1922, he travelled overseas yet again to seek a solution to the prickly pear problem, travelling from Sydney to Java, Ceylon, Europe, the US, Mexico and South America. Efforts had been made to introduce the insect Cactoblastis cactorum in 1914, and it did feed on the prickly pear, but died out in 1921.
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 .
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]
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 ...
Humans arrived in Australia between 80,000 and 45,000 years ago, living alongside megafauna for 20,000–25,000 years [8] [9] [10] before the megafaunal extinctions that were likely caused by, or partly contributed to by, late Pleistocene climate change; [11] [12] however, the full reason for the extinctions is still unclear and human hunting ...
By 1862 prickly pear was growing in the Chinchilla district and spread rapidly in areas where land holdings were extensive and population relatively low. [1] Prickly pear was declared a noxious weed in Queensland in 1893. By 1900 approximately 10,000,000 acres (4,000,000 ha) were affected by prickly pear; an area which had extended to an ...
The process of land selection in Queensland in Australia began in 1860. It continued under a series of land acts in subsequent years. [1] When Britain claimed possession of Australia, it did so based on terra nullius (that the land belonged to nobody) and did not acknowledge that Indigenous people had any ownership over the land. All land in ...