Tutsan (Hypericum androsaemum) (Nox)

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Scientific name: Hypericum androsaemum L.
Photo: Tutsan Plant
Tustan Plant

Common name:
Tutsan

Status:
Regionally Controlled in the Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West), Goulburn Broken, North East, West Gippsland and East Gippsland CMAs.
Restricted in the Mallee, North Central, Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins and Corangamite CMAs.

Habitat:
Humid and subhumid warm-temperate regions - occurring in areas receiving more than 750 mm of annual rainfall (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It often occurs on damp, shaded sites and forest edges from where it encroaches onto adjoining pastures (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Improved pastures are not usually invaded, but Tutsan encroaches onto semi-improved areas or pastures which have been severely overgrazed (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Tutsan invades damp sclerophyll forest, wet sclerophyll forest, riparian vegetation, warm temperate rainforest, and cool temperate (Carr et al 1992).

Photo: Tustan Flowers
Tustan Flowers

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Scientific name:	Hypericum androsaemum L.	Tustan Plant
Common name:	Tutsan
Status:	Regionally Controlled in the Port Phillip & Westernport (East and West), Goulburn Broken, North East, West Gippsland and East Gippsland CMAs. Restricted in the Mallee, North Central, Wimmera, Glenelg-Hopkins and Corangamite CMAs.
Habitat:	Humid and subhumid warm-temperate regions - occurring in areas receiving more than 750 mm of annual rainfall (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). It often occurs on damp, shaded sites and forest edges from where it encroaches onto adjoining pastures (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Improved pastures are not usually invaded, but Tutsan encroaches onto semi-improved areas or pastures which have been severely overgrazed (Parsons and Cuthbertson 1992). Tutsan invades damp sclerophyll forest, wet sclerophyll forest, riparian vegetation, warm temperate rainforest, and cool temperate (Carr et al 1992).