<I>Eragrostis curvula</I> (IMAGE)

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<I>Eragrostis curvula</I>

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The African Love Grass (Eragrostis curvula) is a plant from Southern Africa. With contaminated grass seeds, it came to Australia. The authorities try to control the spread of the plant by preventing areas like here in the north of the State of Victoria, because the grass is monoculture, pushing back the native vegetation and increase in the dry summers of the danger of wildfires.

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