Dehnen-Schmutz, Katharina and Williamson, Mark (2010) Rhododendron ponticum in Britain and Ireland: social, economic and ecological factors in its successful invasion. In: Bio-invaders: themes in environmental history. Bio-invaders . White Horse Press, Strond, UK, pp. 171-196. ISBN 978-1-874-26755-3

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Abstract

Rhododendron ponticum is the most expensive alien plant conservation problem in Britain and Ireland. It was introduced in the eighteenth century, probably in 1763 from Spain, and was then described as a not fully hardy plant. It was expensive to buy. It was made hardier by artificial and natural selection and by hybridisation with Appalachian and other Rhododendron species. It is easy to propagate and became cheap and popular in the mid and late nineteenth century as an ornamental, for game cover and as a root stock for other ornamental rhododendrons. The lowest price was in about 1880 by which time it had escaped widely. The escapes were ignored by botanical recorders for over 50 years. It was scarcely recognised as a problem until between the two world wars. Major control projects date from the second half of the twentieth century

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Life Sciences (2010- )
Series Name:	Bio-invaders
Publisher:	White Horse Press
Place of Publication:	Strond, UK
ISBN:	978-1-874-26755-3
Book Title:	Bio-invaders: themes in environmental history
Date:	2010
Number of Pages:	26
Page Range:	pp. 171-196
Status:	Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Adapted As:	Reprint of a 2006 paper in Environment and History, 12, 325-350
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/42555

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