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Name: Cap Broom. Very serious agricultural and environmental weed in sth Australia.
 * __Description__:** it is a tall standing shrub that grows to 3m in height. The stems are ribbed and covered with short soft hairs. It has yellow pea flower.
 * __How did it get here__**: Cape Broom was probably introduced to Australia as a hedge and garden plant in the first of the 1800’s
 * __The damage it does:__** Cape broom is a native plant of the Mediterranean region. It’s a pest because it forms dense thickets and out competes other vegetation by shading and nitrogen fixation. It is now a
 * __How to get rid of it:__** effective control requires a program combining a range of removal, burning and using chemicals and hopefully in the futere, biological control.
 * __Name:__** Mimosa.
 * __Description:__** It is a shrub that reaches 5 or 6m tall it’s scattered with 5-12mm long thorns along stems and branches. It has pink or mauve flowers.
 * __How it got here:__** No one is certain how it came to be in Australia. They do know it was present in Darwin in 1936. It may have been introduced to Darwin as a novelty, as a contaminant of seed, or with animals. This is mostly speculation.
 * __The damage it does:__** It is regarded as one of the worst weeds in Australia . Wetlands are threatened by Mimosa, which reduces the biodiversity of plant and animal life on the floodplains by out competing native plants and reducing available habitat for native animals.
 * __How to get rid of it:__** To control it in small patchespull out by hand, bulldozing or spraying herbicides. Larger patches should be sprayed from the air. Biological control should help to control long term.