Woolly Nightshade (solanum mauritianum)

Woolly Nightshage is an aggressive a quick-growing shrub or tree, up to 9 m.

• Dense stands can invade pasture on poor soils, especially in hill country, impede livestock movement.
• May cause skin irritation, respiratory problems in humans, plants toxic to livestock.
• Can rapidly invade forest margins, totally excluding regeneration of native species.

Now well established in many areas north of Taupo. Most dense infestations in Port Waikato, Coromandel Peninsula.