[at-l] Kudzu---

[askowronek at mindspring.com (Amy)]

On Thursday, April 8, 2004, at 10:25 PM, Leslie Booher wrote:

>> I don't think you'll see much of it on the trail though, which is 
>> certainly a good thing for trail maintainers ;-)<
>
> Last time I was there, there were huge amounts of it around Cherokee, 
> NC.  It was growing up the sides of the mountains on the SE side of 
> the Smokies.  When we hiked down into Nantahala from the south, we 
> hiked behind a veil of kudzu along the trail.  It had grown up from 
> the trees on the inside of the trail, jumped over to the crowns of the 
> trees on the outside of the trail, and the vines were hanginging down. 
>  Interesting but destructive.  They have purple blossoms that smell 
> like grape Kool-Aid.  I don't know exactly how far north it grows, but 
> you don't want it on your property.
>

I have it on my property in Maryland.  It just spontaneously appeared 
next to my house.
It's eaten a lilac and some other nameless bush, but that's as far as 
it's gone in three years.

-amy