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May 26, 2015

Once a miracle plant, yellow tuft now a menace

By RUTH LONGORIA KINGSLAND
Grants Pass Daily Courier

CAVE JUNCTION, Ore. — More than 20 years ago, it was touted as a miracle plant — a “hyperaccumulator” able to pull heavy metals, such as nickel, out of the area's serpentine soil and store it in its leaves.

At least that's what was told to then-county commissioners who approved planting of yellow-tuft alyssum on eight plots, totaling more than 50 acres in the Illinois Valley.


 
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