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Bulbil watsonia

Common weeds

Scientific name
Watsonia meriana var. bulbillifera
Description
Perennial herb, with flat strappy succulent leaves, dying back annually to flattened, round corms.
Weed category
Regionally controlled
How to indentify
Rigid, flat, mostly basal, sword-like leaves. Straight, erect red-brown flowering stalks to 2m high, usually unbranched. Open spikes of 10-15 brick red to dull pink curved trumpet-shaped flowers, brown bulbils along stem.
How it spreads
  • Water
  • Soil
  • Vehicles
Suggested plant replacement

Gahnia sieberiana | Red-fruit Saw-sedge

Removal methods
Plant specific removal methods

Hand weed corms. Wipe leaves with poison using a dabber bottle. Slash below stem emergence point.

Garden showing plants with long thin green spkiey leaves at the base with green stalks topped by red flowers  Plant with long thin stalk with long thin orange flowers

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