In the 1930's, a vine native to Japan was introduced
throughout the United States as a highly effective
means for controlling erosion. Forty years later,
the USDA officially declared this miracle-vine a
weed. While visitors to the South are immediately
taken by scenic glimpses of kudzu-blanketed lands -
capes, natives keep their doors shut to keep the
creeping plant from taking over their houses.
Growing better in the South than it does even
in its native environment, kudzu can grow as
much as a foot per day, climbing trees, barns,
telephone poles--and anything else that gets
in their way. And while these vines actually
do help prevent erosion, they also destroy
entire forests, wrapping themselves around
every inch, smothering every tree from needed
sunlight...
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