Kudzu CONSUME
English Ivy
Submitted 12 hours ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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MeatPilot@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
j4k3@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Kudzu was the last bioweapons unit of the Union army in the US civil war. It never surrendered, it is still fighting the American South, and winning the guerilla war.
casmael@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
Nah it’s pretty intent on covering the whole of England too tbh. Good for the bees in September tho ☺️
QuantumStorm@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
What I don’t get is why we don’t eat kudzu.
pyrflie@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Where digestion is concerned it’s beans on steroids. It’s pretty rough on methane emissions, smell, and laundry.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
IIRC a lot of it has at some point been sprayed with super toxic herbicide to try and kill it off.
Don’t quote me on that though I’m just quoting a Wendigoon video from memory
Rubisco@slrpnk.net 10 hours ago
Because Crake is saving it for some special project at Rejoov.
QuantumStorm@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I hate (and am terrified) that I understood this reference. That series is horrifying.
boogetyboo@aussie.zone 7 hours ago
Playing whack a mole with my neighbours ivy. Keeps popping up on my side of the fence. Fuck whoever brought it to Australia.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
I’m playing whack a mole with my own ivy. Fuck the prior house owners for letting it get out of hand. I got all of it from the trees and the side of the house but it always grows back. I’m still finding sprouts from thick woody vines that have been there forever apparently. I tried removing it from the fence but realized very quickly that it’s the only thing holding it together. 😒
And fuck the English for bringing it over (we both know it was them, even their plants are colonizers).
sevan@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
Same. I have a fence that’s barely still standing now that I removed the ivy. I’ve been pulling it and spraying it for several years now. I know I’ll never win, but I’m doing my best to keep it in check. The most painful part is when I go to garden centers and see it for sale. It makes me want to cry.
Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 5 hours ago
2nd one looks like kudzu
TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 8 hours ago
Is the climate that different?
pisstoria@hexbear.net 7 hours ago
It doesn’t have the same pests and diseases as in Europe to keep it in check.
YeetPics@mander.xyz 11 hours ago
Kudzu is Chinese arrowroot tho?
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I think the vines in the second photo are kudzu tho
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Definitely. OP is clueless.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
English Ivy happily spreads too and will also smother natives.
TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
English ivy may grow better in Kentucky soil than Kent chaulk, but I’m not familiar with that in the way I am kudzu.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Kudzu is some wild stuff, one vine tendril grows a foot a day and it kills entire forests.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Oh in that case Kakugo shiro
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