Whut the heck?
This is part of a big multi-stemmed shrub/tree or shrubs/trees growing about a mile northeast of the intersection of the Colorado R. and the Gulf of Mexico in Matagorda County, Texas. We do not know what it be. Notice the tight, dark green foilage. Do Tamarix spp. ever look like this when they're stressed or poisoned? This thing, by the way,looked healthy.
posted by ray pistrum at Sunday, November 06, 2005
3 Comments:
This is tamarisk looks like it was sprayed with 24D, 24D ia a auxin which causes the plant to grow to death, but in this case not quite dead
Hmmm. Reckon who sprayed it. Well, maybe I can find out, maybe.
Thanks
it doesn't take much this stuff, it is pretty potent,
if you spray it around the fumes can carry enough active ingredient to kill.
spray under a tree and the fumes drift up into the foliage and defoliate the tree.
it is active at 1.25 lbs per acre that's enough to kill every dicot in that acre or 3 thousands of a grams per square foot.
it drifts on the air and in the water and is used on monocots like lawns, cereals grains, grasses, pastures etc. to kill dicots
it is cheap and used on RR rows, Pipe lines rows, Power line rows and highway rows extensively.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%2C4-dichlorophenoxyacetic_acid
http://www.24d.org/
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