Melbourne’s
Plane Trees have been blamed for excessive allergy reactions for locals and
visitors with City Council at last deciding they should be replaced.
Known as
London Plane Trees, these irritant producing trees are to be slowly replaced
with other species, including Australian eucalypts. We have campaigned on
Victraders for a number of years to have the trees removed from around our
market as many Traders suffer from their air-born irritant fibres, particularly
in Spring. Our photo was originally published with an article back in 2017 - Plane Trees Are A Real Problem.
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| Plane Trees On Queen St. |
The
following comments are from an ABC Report this week - University of Melbourne
allergy specialist Jo Douglass said plane trees fibres could affect people who
did not normally suffer from allergic reactions and hayfever.
"The
particles from the plane trees are just an irritant, and the fibrous nature of
them is such that it irritates people's eyes and nose," she said.
Professor
Douglass said eucalyptus and other native trees would be a good choice for the
city because few people were allergic to them.