Autumn Olive

Here's another of the invasive species found at Greene View Springs. Some people call this Russian Olive, but that is a different variety. You can read more about the two on a page from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and another from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources prepared by the state's Invasive Plant Species Assessment Working Group.

Today I cut down the last of these that have been found to date. This picture shows one of them after pruning all the branches off. There is nothing left to show at all now because they have been sawed off to the ground. The two links above show Autumn Olives still standing.