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> Personally, I think it's a quite attractive weed. That's probably the reason why it got to the US in the first place. Germany now has a massive problem with
by rob74 3y ago
> Personally, I think it's a quite attractive weed.
That's probably the reason why it got to the US in the first place. Germany now has a massive problem with these "weeds": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impatiens_glandulifera https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impatiens_glandulifera - looks nice in pictures, but it has a hard to describe smell that's very unpleasant. Fortunately it's not blanketing the entire landscape like stinknet in Arizona, but lately where I live it's everywhere in wet, shady clearings in forests, and also outcompeting native species.
- mysterydip 3y agoI wonder of there's any work being done to "turn off" any of the undesirable traits of some weed like that so it becomes a plant you want to have around that mostly takes care of itself?
- was_a_dev 3y agoThe real issue isn't the smell but it out-competing native species