RHP South African
River Health Programme 		State of the Rivers Report
Letaba & Luvuvhu
River Systems
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ALIEN AND INDIGENOUS PLANT AND FISH SPECIES
COMMON NAME SCIENTIFIC NAME
ALIEN PLANTS

ageratum
bugweed
castor-oil plant
eucalypts/gum tree
guava
jacaranda
lantana
large cocklebur
Mauritius thorn
mulberry
paraffin bush/triffid weed
peanut butter cassia
pines
poplars
sesbania
syringa
thistle(spear, or Scotch thistle)
wild tobacco
Ageratum spp.
Solanum mauritianum
Ricinus communis
Eucalypts spp.
Psidium guajava
Jacaranda mimosifolia
Lantana camara
Xanthium strumarium
Caesalpinia decapetala
Morus alba
Chromolaena odorata
Senna didymobotrya
Pinus spp.
Populus spp.
Sesbania punicea
Melia azedarch
Cirsium vulgare
Nicotiana glauca
INDIGENOUS PLANTS

common reed
Cape willow
jackal berry
matumi or mingerhout
Natal mahogany
sycamore fig
Phragmites mauritianus
Salix mucronata
Diospyros mespiliformis
Breonadia salicina.
Trichilia emetica
Ficus sycomorus
ALIEN FISH

black bass (large mouth)
common carp
Nile tilapia
rainbow trout
bluegill sunfish
Micropterus salmoides
Cyprinus carpic
Oreochromis niloticus
oncoryhynchus mykiss
Lepomis macrochirus
INDIGENOUS FISH

line-spotted barb
sawfin rock catlet
common mountain catfish
southern barred minnow
tigerfish
Barbus lineomaculatus
Chiloglanis paratus
Amphilius uranoscopus
Opsaridium peringueyi
Hydrocynus vittatus
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