Cut lump of camphor laurel trunk sprouting (zoom in to centre)
Spotted at my local bushcare group last week. This trunk section has been sitting on the ground for months. The main tree (background) was hacked apart, drilled and poisoned by NSW Forestry, but it's also happily sprouting everywhere again.
Camphor laurels are beautiful, toxic trees that you will see everywhere but sadly they're also weeds. The ground near them tends to be barren, they intentionally poison the soil (allelopathy) to avoid competition. I've been told that they were used to make shipping boxes because their wood resisted insects
They took the tree down and then drilled the stump? Just spouting on the pieces? Shouldn't come too much. Eucalyptus is another species that also gives it a good crack after cutting.
Usually when we do Privet you can throw the pieces wherever but during the La Nina we had to work through rain constantly and had heaps of cut small-leaved Privet pieces take root.
We took ownership of an old piano and inside was a bag of DDT and Camphor.