About Blackberry - An identification tool to introduced and native Rubus in Australia
The term “blackberry” in Australia is usually used in reference to a number of closely related introduced European species of Rubus that are significant weeds of agriculture, forestry and natural ecosystems in southern and eastern Australia. These are the species of the Rubus fruticosus aggregate and they are recognised as a Weed of National Significance. The species are difficult to distinguish from each other and they react differently to control methods such as herbicides and rusts.
There are other species of Rubus in Australia, some of them native, and some introduced from America and Asia. These overlap in distribution with weedy blackberry and responsible management requires firstly that we know what species we are planning to eradicate and, if it is a weed, how best to go about it.
Blackberry is an interactive CD ROM enabling the identification of all species of Rubus presently known to occur in Australia. From this first step of identification will follow the next stage of documenting the most effective means of control of each of the species of the Rubus fruticosus aggregate. Once these means have been established this information can be added to future versions of the Blackberry tool.
Authors
Robyn and Bill Barker
State Herbarium of South Australia
Published by
Published by
State Herbarium of South Australia
Department for Environment & Heritage, Hackney Road, Adelaide SA 5000
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CRC for Australian Weed Management
PMB 1, Waite Campus, University of Adelaide, Glen Osmond SA 5064 Edition 1.00 © Department for Environment & Heritage, Government of South Australia. Jan 2005 (For further information contact: State Herbarium of South Australia)
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Centre for Biological Information Technology