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FYI, the whole Kudzu thing is completely overblown. It's mostly a myth. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325
by JPKab 10y ago
FYI, the whole Kudzu thing is completely overblown. It's mostly a myth.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/?no-ist http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudz...
It was specifically planted in many visible areas like highway banks etc, so people's perception is wrongly skewed towards it being everywhere, when it's really not.
- Chathamization 10y agoThanks, though that doesn't seem to be saying that kudzu being a problem is a myth, but rather that there have been myths exaggerating the problems with kudzu (“I thought the whole world would someday be covered by it, that it would grow as fast as Jack’s beanstalk, and that every person on earth would have to live forever knee-deep in its leaves"). There does seem to be a consensus that kudzu is a problem (you can look at the USDA page about it), and the article doesn't dispute it.