Occurrence Characteristics and Management Plans of Ecosystem Disturbance Plants, Solanum carolinense

In-Yong Lee1   Seung-Hwan  Kim1   Yong-Ho  Lee1   Jae-Ho  Ahn2   Sun-Hee  Hong1,*   

1Institute of Ecological Phytochemistry, School of Applied science in Natural Resources & Environment, Hankyong National University, Anseong 17579, Korea
2School of Civil and Environment Engineering, Hankyong National University, Anseong 17579, Korea

Abstract

The main habitat of Solanum carolinense, an ecosystem-disrupting invasive plant in Korea, is known as pasture. However, it is now occurring not only in pastures, but also in roadsides, embankments, paddy and upland levees and coastal sand dunes. The flowers of S. carolinense bloom purple flowers similar to eggplant flowers from June to July, and bear rounded yellow fruits around September. S. carolinense propagates by seeds and underground rhizomes. Roots cut by tillage can be regenerated with 0.5 cm fragments. Therefore, indiscriminate tillage can cause the spread of S. carolinense, but a method of consuming and removing nutrients from rhizomes through periodic tillage (at least 3 times at 30-day intervals) can be considered. It can also be controlled by spraying herbicides such as dicamba, triclopyr-TEA, or glyphosate. On the one hand, the systematic control of S. carolinense requires additional research on cultural and biological control techniques.

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Fig. 1. Distribution status of in the world (red colour). Sources: CABI, 2021.