Patterson's curse

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(Australia) The plant , considered a noxious weed in Australia.

1905 J. H. Maiden, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, xvi.268, Quoted in 1985, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, ,

Origin: Said to be named after the Patterson family who had it as an ornamental garden plant which spread and took over adjacent previously productive paddocks (though this was not the first large outbreak). Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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