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Invasive Plants Impacting India

The document discusses invasive plant species and provides examples of invasive plants including wood sorrel, Crassocephalum crepidioides, and Prosopis juliflora. It notes that invasive species can harm native biodiversity and cause economic losses.

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Invasive Plants Impacting India

The document discusses invasive plant species and provides examples of invasive plants including wood sorrel, Crassocephalum crepidioides, and Prosopis juliflora. It notes that invasive species can harm native biodiversity and cause economic losses.

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EVS PROJECT

ON
INVASIVE
PLANTS
An invasive species is an
organism that causes
INVASIVE ecological or economic
SPECIES harm in a new environment
where it is not
native. Invasive species are
capable of causing
extinctions of native plants
and animals, reducing
biodiversity, competing
with native organisms for
limited resources, and
altering habitats.

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INVASIVE PLANTS

Plants that do not occur naturally


in a region but proliferate in the
area they have been introduced
into, and cause several negative
impacts (such as affecting native
biodiversity, causing economic
losses and harming human health)
in these new habitats, are called
invasive plants.
Family: Oxalidaceae
Origin: Southeastern Asia
Distribution: Throughout in India
Sanitation is critical in controlling
wood sorrel in container plants,
especially in propagation areas. Do
not let plants go to seed. Inspect all
new plant materials before planting
for infestations of this weed. Wood
sorrel from seed is well managed by
most preemergence herbicides. Once
established it is nearly impossible to
OXALIS completely remove wood sorrel
rhizomes.
CORNICULATA
Family: Asteraceae
CRASSOCEPHALUM Origin: Tropical countries
CREPIDIOIDES Distribution: Throughout in
India
Crassocephalum crepidioides ,
is a tropical, upright, herb with
thick and soft stem and
alternate leaves. It makes an
excellent spinach substitute. Its
flowers are yellow and reddish
and fruits are dark brown with
long silky hairs at the end. It is
commonly found in Papua
New Guinea and in many other
tropical countries.
PROSOPOPIS
JULIFLORA
Family: Mimosaceae
Origin: Central and northern south America
Distribution: Throughout in India
P. juliflora is a shrub or small tree native to Mexico,
Central and northern South America. It has shown itself
to be a very aggressive invader, especially in frost -free
arid and semi-arid natural grasslands, both in its native
range and in particular, where introduced. Prosopis as a
genus is treated as one of the world’s worst invasive
plant species, and P. juliflora is by far the most invasive
species
INVASIVE ALIEN
FLORA OF INDIA

SUBMITTED BY:
SARTHAK DIDWANIA
ROLL NO. 1669
SECTION A

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