An unintended consequence?

THE law of unintended consequences may be about to strike. Jatropha curcas the wonder plant extolled as a life-changing agent by that secular saint, Bob Geldorf, could be an invasive alien! If it is true then far from being the perfect plant to supply bio-fuels, it might turn out to be another Port Jackson Willow -- the plant imported last century from Australia to stop the shifting sands of the Cape Flats and which today infests the Western Cape. Spigot hopes this is not true but there has been a deathly silence from the Department of Agriculture which still lists Jatropha as an invasive species.