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FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Kudzu isn't even all that bad. The folks in charge of tracking it rate it far lesser of a concern than other oriental invasives. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You say that, but I've seen some amazing kudzu patches, and I've never seen or heard of anything else even close.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    but I’ve seen some amazing kudzu patches

    Yes, and as noted in the article I linked, there is a reason for that. You see everything there is. Kudzu's amazing ability is to be seen from the window of a car on a road. If there is even a bit of management or the area isn't clear cut and kept constantly clear of competition from maintenance of the road you're traveling on, kudzu is more of a dudzu.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    I get it, it was planted to be ornamental, but that's not what I'm talking about.

    A couple of years ago, I was travelling through the South somewhere, and went past a stretch of kudzu that was at least a half mile long, and covered EVERYTHING. I pulled over into a space that was almost a parking lot. Clearly I wasnt the first to stop to check this out.

    It was so thick, you could not tell what was under it. It stretched as back into the woods as far as I could see. I took a bunch of pictures, but they were underwhelming. There was a lot of green, but they just didn't show how overwhelming it was. I couldn't find the pix anyway. And while that was the biggest Kudzu infestation I've seen, I've witnessed plenty of other impressive ones as well. Although I do have to say, I'm seeing less lately. Anti-Kudzu campaigns seem to be having an effect.

    So yeah, I understand that it was planted by the road where I could see it, but that still doesn't describe the sheer immensity of the coverage. That isn't just an invasive plant becoming ubiquitous, it truly gives a new meaning to the word "invasive."

    I'm a plant guy, I love building gardens and stuff, so I know what I'm looking at, and I've never seen anything else in my travels that comes close to rivaling Kudzu.

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