Mother Of Millions
By Grace and Paige N
Environmental Impact
Mother Of Millions can reproduce rapidly it has adapted to dry conditions and can survive long periods of time through droughts. This increases the plants potential to persist and spread. Mother Of Millions is toxic when eaten by animals; it is also poisonious to humans and house hold pets. It originated form Madagascar to England and came with the British to Australia. It can be found any where from pastures to waste areas to fences lines to roadsides to National parks and so much more places.
Effect On Native Speices
Mother Of Millions is taking over all our native speiccies and killing our animals, as proof in the inland centre of Queensland Mother Of Millions is taking over the native herbs that make up the diet of the endangered speceies of the Nail-Tail Wallaby.
Mother Of Millions growing along fenceline
Mother Of Millions growing in Green House
wild Mother Of Millions
Effect On The Aboriginal Way Of Life
Mother Of Millions effected the Aborigiinals life in many different ways, as it toke over most plants taking the Aboriginals food as they relied on natural resources alot. Also if they hunted an animal and that animal had ingested Mother Of Millions they might be exposed to the deadly poision in the animal. It is also danger to Aboriginal children as they might have played in, and eaten Mother Of Millions.
ECONOMICAL VALUE TO AUSTRALIA
Mother Of Millions is one of the 12th most invasive species on the Sunshine Coast. this is because it is wasting people money as it is poisionousand needs to be removed immediately before it spreads becuse of it's poison people can't touch it so they have to pay professionals to do it.
is this a new food source?
If animals have eaten a large amount of the Mother Of Millions they may die suddenly of heart failure. If the eat a small amount over days they can develope dirrhoea, drool saliva, dribble urine then die of heart failure. some animals that are effected may recover, but not always. 5kg of Mother Of Millions would grow in 1 squared metre and can kill an adult cow. As Mother Of Millions is toxic to humans an pets and pratically susceptible to dogs. It is unlikely that humans or pets would eat enough to be poisioned, Mother Of Millions is growing more in backyards increasing the risk rapidly.