Saturday, 12 May 2012


This shows the size of the tap root on quite a small Rumex crispus. (The coin there is a two dollar one, to give you some sense of scale)  As you can imagine, as they plant grows, the root becomes very large and extremely difficult to dig out.

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  1. Wetland weeds what a pain, Rumex has at least 1 native cousin too - R. bidens. VINC website is good value http://www.vinc.net.au/

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