This is where the parkslide is supposed to die from heatstroke

» Updated: September 18 2024

» Published: July 09 2024

This is where the parkslide is supposed to die from heatstroke
Photo: Marianne Ahlenuis/TT

Heat patrons are being buried in the ground in Albäckskogen in Trelleborg in an attempt to get rid of the invasive plant parkslide, reports SVT Skåne.

With a temperature of 300 degrees, the heat from the patrons is intended to eradicate the unwanted plant at a cellular level.

54 heat patrons on a 150 square meter area cost the municipality 300,000 kronor.

It's an expensive method, but we got a discount since it's a trial area, says Cathrine Ek, Trelleborg's municipal ecologist, to SVT.

If the expensive method works, it will be evaluated by researchers and the results will come in a few years.

We'll come here at regular intervals during the first years and check that no shoots have come up, says Lars-Göran Lindkvist, entrepreneur working with the trial in Trelleborg.

• Easy to establish itself on almost any type of soil.

• Easy to spread with extremely small root or stem fragments. The species can establish itself from root pieces weighing less than a gram.

• A quick start and growth early in the spring, before most other species.

• Rapid growth, which makes the species quickly establish itself, and the ability to form dense stands that cover other vegetation. Parkslide is thus very competitive against other species.

• Roots that store nutrients at great depths, which makes it possible for the species to re-establish itself even when above-ground vegetation and shallow roots have been removed. Therefore, parkslide is very difficult to combat.

• Ability to use its stored resources to shoot new shoots many years after treatment such as mowing or chemical control has begun.

• Ability to react to control attempts by shooting root shoots up to seven meters from the main plant.

• Higher tolerance for chemical control agents compared to many other species.

Source: The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.

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