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Pampas Grass

Cortadenia Spp.

A long-lived perennial tussock, 2 metres high, with flowerheads to 4 metres high.

Plants are either female or hemaphrodite (bixsexual).

Female plants can produce 100,000 seeds per flowerhead per season if pollinated.

Seeds spread by wind. Plant can also be grown from pieces of rhizomes or root segments.

Pampas grass is in widespread use as a garden ornamental in residential areas.

It invades urban bushland reducing recreational and conservational values, also increases fire hazard by production of large quantities of flammable material.