Natural forest regeneration helps curb spread of invasive species (IMAGE)

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Natural forest regeneration helps curb spread of invasive species

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A silk floss tree or paineira (Ceiba speciosa), a native Brazilian species, blooms surrounded by the invasive leucaena (Leucaena leucocephala) in a secondary forest in Piracicaba (SP) in southeastern Brazil 

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Paulo Guilherme Molin/UFSCar

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