{"id":5589,"date":"2021-10-07T09:20:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T09:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lifeazoresnatura.eu\/?post_type=noticias&#038;p=5589"},"modified":"2021-10-07T09:20:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T09:20:54","slug":"hedychium-a-threat-to-the-azorean-biodiversity","status":"publish","type":"noticias","link":"https:\/\/www.lifeazoresnatura.eu\/en\/news\/hedychium-a-threat-to-the-azorean-biodiversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hedychium \u2013 a threat to the Azorean biodiversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cCongas\u201d or \u201cFalse-ginger\u201d (<em>Hedychium <\/em>spp.) are among the 50 most dangerous exotic species of Macaronesia (Silva <em>et al<\/em>., 2008).<\/p>\n<p>This plant constitutes a huge threat both in the Azores and Madeira, due to their rhizomes (a stem capable of creating roots) that have a great reproductive potential, forming large densities of vegetation that prevent other neighboring species from getting sunlight and surviving.<\/p>\n<p>On La Palma, some individuals are already beginning to be seen, mainly due to the abandonment of leftover rhizomes from private gardens. From all the species from the family, the most dangerous is <em>Hedychium gardnerianum<\/em>, with a yellow flower, which we can see in the image.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Secretariat for the Environment and Climate Change develops daily several actions to fight against this and other invasive species, to preserve the endemic flora of the Region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5584,"template":"","class_list":["post-5589","noticias","type-noticias","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hedychium \u2013 a threat to the Azorean biodiversity - LIFE IP Azores Natura<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The \u201cCongas\u201d or \u201cFalse-ginger\u201d (Hedychium spp.) are among the 50 most dangerous exotic species of Macaronesia (Silva et al., 2008). 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