BROAD-LEAF PRIVET

Small Leaved Privet (Ligustrum sinense) is a densely branched perennial shrub to 4 metres high growing in a range of habitats. Leaves are elliptic to ovate, up to 7 centimetres long. Flowers are white and occur in bunches up to 10 centimetres long. Fruits are black or blue berries approximately 5 millimetres in diameter.
Due to its potential to cause serious economic, environmental or social harm, these weeds are regulated by some councils.

Privet causes widespread and significant environmental damage in eastern Australia. It is regarded as an environmental weed or potential environmental weed in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory, and is currently of most concern in south-eastern Queensland and eastern New South Wales. Broad-leaf Privet has become an invasive weed of rainforests, gullies and waterways and can invade relatively intact rainforest communities. It can form dense thickets, particularly in coastal areas, which shade out and displace native species. This can transform the habitat available to native animals, creating an ecosystem dominated by weeds, and disrupting the access of animals to natural corridors (Land Protection 2006; Navie & Adkins 2007). Broad-leaf Privet also supports artificially high numbers of pied currawongs (Strepera graculina) in New South Wales, disrupting the natural ecological balance and adversely affecting other native birds

Privet is mainly naturalised in the wetter parts of south-eastern and eastern Australia. It is most common in south-eastern Queensland and in the coastal and sub-coastal districts of eastern New South Wales. It has also been recorded in northern Queensland, north-eastern and southern Victoria, and on Norfolk Island

Spray FireHawk Bioherbicide Concentrate: 50 mL/L of water. Respray if regrowth occurs. Pull out creepers including roots.