Description:
Crime Committed:
Located At:
Last Seen:
Reward:
Suspected Hideouts:
- Fruit are pink to red or blackish when mature, and appear bumpy
- Evergreen shrub or small tree up to 8 m tall (26 ft)
- Leaves coriaceous oblanceolate 4-11 cm long 1-2.5 cm wide glabrous glandular dots inconspicuous, margins somewhat revolute remotely serrulate or serrate in upper ½ apex rounded to acute. Flowers in usually branched catkins borne among leaves of the current year's growth. Fruit drupaceous dark red or blackish when mature slightly fleshy
Crime Committed:
- Out-competes native plant species and capable of forming dense, single-species stands, devoid of other plant life
- Modifies forest habitat by significantly increasing nitrogen levels in the soil, which makes the area inhospitable to native plants, but more suitable for other invasive species
- Seeds spread by animals.
- Able to colonize a wide range of habitats due to its ability to alter soil chemistry
- Prolific seed producer
Located At:
- Kauai: Present in Waimea Canyon and Kokee State Park. Landowners are encouraged to control where possible.
- Oahu: Established in the southern Waianae mountains where Oahu Army Natural Resources Program controls populations. There are no known trees in the Koolau mountains.
- Maui: Present in large numbers on the slopes of Haleakala. Not considered eradicable by MISC. Landowners are encouraged to control where possible. The only known plants on West Maui have been controlled.
- Molokai: Presence/absence unknown.
- Lanai: Presence/absence unknown.
- Kahoolawe: None known.
- Big Island: Widespread on the Big Island where hundreds of acres are already infested. Not considered eradicable by BIISC. However, landowners are encouraged to control wherever possible.
Last Seen:
- Native to the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands, introduced to Hawaii as an ornamental and backyard food crop (berry wine) by Portuguese laborers in the 1800’s and spread as a reforestation tree in the 1920’s.
Reward:
- The approaches to control this invasive in Hawaiian natural areas primarily the effectiveness and feasibility of chemical and biological methods will be characterized
Suspected Hideouts:
- mostly found in Oahu