Kudzu
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(kd´z), plant of the family Leguminosae ( family), native to Japan. Kudzu (Pueraria thunbergiana) has a woody stem, broad leaves, and clusters of large purple flowers.
Kudzu is scattered throughout Arkansas, but to really see and appreciate the ferocity of this vine you must travel the back roads of Georgia, Alabama and the Carolinas in July.
Kudzu is a climbing, semi-woody, perennial vine in the legume family that has the potential to reach up to 100 feet in length.
Index- plants in this Family
Fabaceae / Pea Kudzu (Pueraria montana)
Kudzu is also known as Pueraria Lobata. ...
Kudzu
Scientific name: Pueraria montana var. lobata (Willd.) Maesen & S. M. Almeida ex Sanjappa & Predeep
Common name: Kudzu ...
BACKGROUND: Kudzu was introduced into the U.S. in 1876 at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, where it was promoted as a forage crop and an ornamental plant.
kudzu Fabaceae Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. symbol: PUMO
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Kudzu vines climb up and over adjacent plants no matter how tall until the entire area is completely smothered in a tangle of vines.
Description ...
KUDZU
Kudzu is a type of legume, a flowering plant that bears its protein-rich seeds in pods and can fix nitrogen from the soil (due to the symbiotic root bacteria rhizobia). Its tubers are edible and the fiber is useful.
Kudzu (Pueraria lobata) is a non-toxic edible vine that scrambles extensively over lower vegetation or grows high into trees. Kudzu is an invasive species in the southern United States.
Variegated Kudzu - Pueraria
WOODY LILIES
This group includes lily-like plants that have evergreen parts. They are very effective and quite happy in perennial borders and as placeholders in a foundation planting. (Woody Lily Gallery) ...
PUERARIA LOBATA - Kudzu Vine
PUERTO RICO
Chironja, a Natural Orangelo. By Rick Parkhurst. 1982 #1, p 13
More Acerolas Than You Can Eat. By Raymond F. Vincent. 1978 #4, pp 13-15 ...
Chubbe, a botanist with the Royal Botanic Gardens in the United Kingdom, expressed his concern over the huge number of invasive species here, including the familiar Brazilian or Mexican pepper, Chinese Fan Palm, Surinam Cherry, Fiddlewood, Kudzu, ...
Our native American Bittersweet is being replaced in the Northeast by the more aggressive Asian Bittersweet, which has escaped from cultivation and can cover huge trees, much like Kudzu does in the South, ...
Other green weeds can also be eaten cooked. Kudzu, for example, is great battered and fried or in stir-frys. Horseweed and stinging nettle are two more plants that can be eaten if the leaves are cooked.
gòu lèuhng g"ung g (ge2) ' (1. vine 2. Kudzu, Pueraria lobata)
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g lǚ zǐ ...
Anyway, you can find T.f. in roadside ditches almost everywhere. It, like many other introduced "exotics" have become weedy nuisances like kudzu, autumn olive, multiflora rose, japanese honeysuckle, etc.
Carolina Jessamine is found from Virginia to Texas to Florida, usually in a bright spot at wood's edge or in a clearing, but it can also be seen climbing a fence or tree in an open field where the Kudzu hasn't yet taken over.
Height
8-12 Feet ...
It covers everything worse than Japanese honeysuckle, blocking the light and killing many fine, expensive shrubs. I spend much of my 'vacation' time trying to eradicate this beautiful, Kudzu-like criminal. PLEASE STOP RECOMMENDING IT!! ...
 See also: Vine, May, Green, Fruits, Grass
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