the extent of the plant in america is much smaller, the spread much slower, and the resilience much lower, than a lot of people think. it only spread in the first place because there was a huge campaign to plant it everywhere during the great depression, mostly as an attempt to stabilize soil. it didn't spread all on its own like wildfire. people spread it. now the japanese kudzu bug, another invasive species, is killing it off, which while alarming in its own way is also kinda funny tbh.
one reason kudzu seems so widespread is that it grows really well on road cuts and railroad embankments. basically people are seeing the roadside facade of a vast kudzu invasion.
Any chance racism drives this kind of hysteria over a specifically asian plant and not european species?
A park near me had a ton of goats gnaw their infestation to death. Glad to hear that its not that widespread considering it decimates a lot of woodland near me.
Ah yes, Kudzu
The vine so fine, they made a Magic: The Gathering card of it
This article was so fucking long and barely said anything.
I'm mad you made me read it.
I just wanted info on the spread and this article waxes poetic about kudzu lore for way too long and then barely gives any actual data on the spread
