Best practice management guide - Bridal creeper
Bridal creeper comes from a range of climatic regions in southern Africa including areas with winter, summer and evenly distributed rainfall.
First recorded in Australia in 1857 in a nursery catalogue.
By the 1870s bridal creeper was a common garden plant; its flowers were used in floral arrangements, particularly in wedding bouquets.
Within 50 years of introduction, bridal creeper had become naturalised in many areas across most of southern Australia.
Bridal creeper is very competitive. Its shoots form a dense canopy which shades indigenous shrubs, herbs and seedlings.
The tuber mat forms a thick barrier just below the soil surface which limits the access of other plants to soil moisture and nutrients. This barrier makes it difficult for seedlings of indigenous plants to establish.
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