Australia planted rubber vine from Madagascar as a garden ornamental in the 1860s; the climbing weed now reaches 30 metres and has covered huge areas of Queensland | World News
Rubber vine began its Australian story as a garden ornamental brought from Madagascar, and it has since become one of the country’s most troublesome weeds. Left unchecked, this glossy, trumpet-flowered climber can scramble up to 30 metres into tree canopies, blanket creek lines, smother the native vegetation beneath it, and form dense thickets. It also…
