How do you kill an extremely invasive tree? I planted this thing, because I loved its picturesque shapes and the flaming gold and red leaves in fall I cannot remember its name right now, but I cannot wait until it comes back to me. The tree is now invading the neighbour’s yard and I have to do something. Here are a couple of pictures (sorry, I for got how to upload to this site): https://www.flickr.com/photos/lungwitz/14315842346/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/lungwitz/14338982685/in/photostream/ Ripping it out is probably not a good option, because it appears that the roots left in the ground, will just re-grow. I believe the answer is in poisoning it. I am asking what the best method is to get rid of it. Thank you, Olaf
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Yes, it was a Rhus (I recall from having seen the photos before). It's not an invasive -- merely locally aggressive. It can't handle shade, so that is one method of control. If it is invading a lawn, just keep mowing down the new shoots.
Thank you for the replies. I have to apologise for the invalid URLs of the photos. My Flickr was set on ‘Enbed’ rather than on ‘HTML’, when I copied them from there. The trees were indeed Sumac. I believe that I have solved the problem by spraying the leaves with glysophate and by two days later scraping a 1 to 2 inches wide ring of bark of at the bases down to the cambium and painting that with glysopate as well. They are now showing signs of deteriorating. Thanks again, Olaf
