This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and is republished with permission. Beachgoers are being urged to report any sighting of a toxic weed as they soak up the sunshine this summer. The Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) said sea spurge - a small shrub with tightly packed blue-green leaves - has been sighted more along Aotearoa's coastline. "Having a day at the beach is quintessential to a New Zealand summer, if sea spurge became well established in New Zealand, it could jeopardise that," MPI's director of readiness and responses John Walsh said. This story was originally published on RNZ.co.nz and is republished with permission.

Source: Stuff January 15, 2021 02:52 UTC