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Wednesday 15 April 2015 | Published in Local

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Mile a minute about to meet worst enemy
Entomologist Quentin Paynter and plant pathologist Chantal Probst take a wheelbarrow full of mile a minute plants to meet the invasive vine's new adversary – a rust fungus.

A rapidly-growing vine that is smothering trees and plants all over Rarotonga could be under control in a few years, thanks a combined effort to fight its unrelenting spread.

A rapidly-growing vine that is smothering trees and plants all over Rarotonga could be under control in a few years, thanks a combined effort to fight its unrelenting spread.


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