[VFB] RE: KUDZU< other imported species

[Jimmy D. Moore]

Wes, believe me, you don't want anything to do with Kudzu. In Mississippi and Alabama, where I grew up, the stuff literally engulfs anything in its path.  I will kill trees simply by putting a shroud around them.  Roads don't stop it. It'll grow across a gravel road almost overnight.  We used to make "hide outs" in it when I was a kid, for under the vine's canopy, it is open, cool and shady,  that is until we stumbled onto a bunch of rattlesnakes that had gotten under the vines to utilize the shade to keep cool.  Kudzu was originally imported from China to control erosion, (gullies), in the south, but like most other imports turned into a menace. I'm sure that if you get caught with some Kudzu plants in Colorado, you'll be swiftly hauled off to jail. :-P

Take it from someone who knows, "firsthand'.

JIMMY  D

Wes Wada wrote:

Cudzoo

Actually its spelled "Kudzu" We fight it here in SC day and night!

I've never seen Kudzu, but I knew a guy back in Colorado who was from the South, so I was kidding him about getting some and seeing how well it would grow in Colorado. Wild-eyed, and not kidding a bit, he screeched back, "NO!!!"

The stuff can grow a foot overnight. It makes whole trees disappear under a veil of Kudzu vine.

see: <img src="" class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Invasive/mam2.jpg">"https://www.denix.osd.mil/denix/Public/ES-Programs/Conservation/Invasive/mam2.jpg">

Wes Wada
Bend, Oregon

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