Revealed: The surprising reason you're still suffering hay fever well into the summer season
- Many in Melbourne are experiencing hay fever despite spring time being over
- This is due to the large amount of plane trees in the city shedding trichomes
- A total of 1000 plane trees were removed from Melbourne in the past six years
Melbourne locals may continue to suffer from hay fever well into the summer months.
Hay fever season is over for 2018 yet many may still be experiencing symptoms due to city's large amount of plane trees.
Although the trees have already flowered, fine hairs known as trichomes continue to shed from the leaves.
Melbourne locals may continue to suffer from hay fever well into the summer months (stock)
Hay fever season is over for 2018 yet many may still be experiencing symptoms due to city's large amount of plane trees (stock)
The plane tree trichomes can cause powerful eye and throat irritations.
In fact, the allergic effects of the plane trees were so severe that Melbourne City Council unsuccessfully trialed injecting plant hormones into the trees to lessen the impact.
Cr Cathy Oke, Melbourne's Chair of the Environment, told the Herald Sun: 'The shedding of plane tree trichomes occurs during the same period that grass pollen levels are highest in Melbourne and it is common for sufferers of hay fever to associate their symptoms with the trichomes.'
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A total of 1000 plane trees have been removed from Melbourne in the past six years, leaving 5787 still standing.
Many of the older plane trees have been replaced with lemon-scented gums along Flinders Street, and with European hackberry trees along Lygon Street, the Herald Sun reported.
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