Is this weird alien looking thing that has shot up a weed or something to keep?
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Is this weird alien looking thing that has shot up a weed or something to keep?
Posted by four_fox_ache
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Mother of millions. Get it out of the ground and out of your yard or you will have nothing but these.
Super highly ultra invasive! This fucker grows in socks, carpet and roof tiles. It’s all over the Mediterranean now. I’ve reported it to the state and they basically said it’s too far gone to manage.
Mother of Millions and Mother of Thousands are Kalanchoe/Bryophyllum species that grow babies on the tips of their leaves and are extremely hardy. Remove it and any babies and put them in a black plastic bag or something. Or burn them. And be vigilant in that spot for the next year.
Every part of this plant is designed to grow more plants. Removal is a process that involves organised and vigilant removal of the initial growth and all of the re-growth (sadly possibly for years). I made a huge mistake by accidentally ran through a patch of it with my string trimmer, and have been removing regrowth for the last 2 years)
Good to know, previous home owners left some in a pot – I’d better get rid of them asap!!
As others have said – one to get rid of asap . Luckily they are easy (& somewhat therapeutic) to pull out.
Some kind of fuckin triffid or whatever
Devils lettuce
Satan stalks
All I can say is 🫡
That thing is basically a foliage colonizer. Needs to be yoinked and destroyed.
Pull out the plants carefully, with roots intact.
Put them in a black plastic bag.
Put that bag in another plastic bag.
Douse the plastic bag with an accelerant.
Burn it.
Carefully scoop us the ashes and put them in a new bag.
Go to your local church and fill the bag of ashes with holy water
Mix the bag’s contents thoroughly into a papier mache like consistency.
Shape the ash mache into an effigy of El [***Chupacabra***](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=e0c4261b8df016cf&sxsrf=ANbL-n5XgTnZmUlVLG_IzXEWP8vv4eMKwQ:1774426982463&q=El+Chupacabra&spell=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjpu-DPz7qTAxWJZfUHHUgNLwMQkeECKAB6BAgMEAE)
Leaving the effigy in the bag, place it in the sun until the shape sets.
Burn the effigy into new ashes.
Place the new ashes in a black plastic bag and drive to the beach.
Slowly empty the ashes into breaking surf, no more than 3 cubic centimetres at a time, and 10m apart from each other.
Double bag the black plastic bag and place it in your red bin.
plant is actually illegal. Anyone keeping it can get a fine, it’s a noxious invasive weed, harmful to the native ecosystem.
I didn’t know what they were when they popped in my garden – I quite liked the look and let them go. They lived in one little spot in a bed for years… wooden border around the bed separated them from the grass. They grew quite happily under an evergreen tree without taking over the world, killing any cattle or strangling the pet cat. They were just there. I liked ‘em. That big cyclone that came though last year uprooted the tree in that area of the and we did some groundwork’s in the bed. They died off and never came back. Experiences may vary… but ‘kill it with fire’ seems extreme.
As others have mentioned, its mother of millions. They are quite toxic and I would use gloves when handling MoM.
Cattle can die from acute poisoning from eating MoM. Strangely enough, it is a similar toxin that cane toads have.
I have heard of people accidentally brushcutting a clump of MoM and breathing in small parts of the planted and getting very ill. Id be very weary about breathing in any smoke if you went with the burn option.
Either mother of millions or mother of thousands yes we have both.
[https://weeds.brisbane.qld.gov.au/weeds/mother-millions](https://weeds.brisbane.qld.gov.au/weeds/mother-millions)
goddamn I probably spent 100 hours pulling these out of the yard as a kid
Classified noxious weed in some states, make it gone.
I see these in paddocks near where I work in country NSW. Those paddocks are FULL of them. Even the grass around them isn’t that healthy. This is definitely a noxious weed and needs to be treated accordingly.
most likely a Jade Plant (Crassula ovata) flowering spike
Weed