Examples of kudzu

• Bioethics is spreading like kudzu, colonizing new areas even where it is unfamiliar, unexpected, and unwelcome.

• A similar effect of tropical kudzu on soil organic matter has been reported29, corroborating the benefit of this species to soil fertility.

• Goats prefer to browse on vines, such as kudzu, on shrubbery and on weeds, more like deer than sheep, preferring them to grasses.

• Cocoons of this species can be found in the jungle on climbing vines, specifically kudzu.

• When boll weevil infestations and the failure of cotton crops drove farmers to move from rural to urban districts, kudzu plantings were left unattended.

• The scenery changes from tree-lined and park-like to cut-away hillsides covered with invasive kudzu vines and naturalized mimosa trees.

• Although kudzu prefers forest regrowth and edge habitats with high sun exposure, the plant can survive in full sun or partial shade.

• Much of the privately owned cemetery is completely overgrown with kudzu or is returning to forest.

• This causes very little harm to the plants that the kudzu plant displaces.

• The proliferation of kudzu has proved difficult to address.

• It has a climbing growth pattern similar to kudzu, and will grow into a dense mat when it can not climb.

• By 1946, it was estimated that 1,200,000 ha of kudzu had been planted.

• A different survey found twenty-five different species of insect feeding on the kudzu.

• Kudzu is also a structural parasite, meaning that, rather than supporting itself, it grows on top of other plants and buildings to reach light.

• Kudzu is drought tolerant and only the above ground portions of the plant are damaged by frost.