Camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora) - a new weed in north-eastern New South Wales.

Abstract

Camphor laurel (Cinnamomum camphora) has been widely planted and has become extensively naturalized along coastal eastern Australia. Changes in land use over the last 20 years have led to its development as a weed of fields and roadsides in the Richmond-Tween region of north-eastern New South Wales. Its distribution, weed status, biology and ecology are described as a basis for the development of control strategies for different situations. Mechanical and chemical control could in many cases be replaced by longer term environmental management, through competition from cultivated forest as well as horticultural and pasture species. From summary.