Mike Do you think these are suckers from the roots or seedlings? If the forest trees are all the one variety, there must be some other planted variety (or the rootstock variety) flowering within pollinator range, to overcome the self incompatibility for fruit development. No matter why, fruiting means invasive and a reason to argue for removal.
Mike and abread111 Can be proofed by lifting up; young suckers are still attached to parent plant. I don't think the managers of this "forest" mind probing; they want to keep the NorthKorean army pattern of squares and rows which would be ruined by suckering plants.
I imagine the area is mowed, thus keeping the suckers at bay (and probably causing them too). Suckering is not a problem in nature reserves yet; all will be well if volunteers keep spotting and removing plants :-)
It comes down to capacity https://canberra.naturemapr.org/users/8081, just keeping on top of the 1000s of privets stretches parkcare capacity and some of us are getting old and tired.... the government pays for planting invasives and than generously offers to compete for grants to remove those that invade the reserves; this is not sustainable! Plus those spread by birds on public land other than nature reserves are protected under the Urban Forest Act.
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