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Re:Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns by reallydude on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:57PM (#20337012)
As is the Himalayan Blackberry - https://www.nwcb.wa.gov/weeds/himalayan-blackberry

The himalayan environment spawned some very pernicious and hardy species!

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Re:Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns by xyzzyz on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @07:33PM (#20340338)
Plenty of these around me. Grow super fast, push out everything else, and are very hard to get rid of.
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Re:Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns by Something1234 on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @09:41PM (#20340897)
Are the berries edible?
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Re:Minnesota Will Pay Residents to Grow Bee-Friendly Lawns by tlavoie on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @03:18AM (#20342298)
Very, they're quite delicious!

However, the vines themselves are a thorny menace, with a coating of sharp, strong spines that hook backwards towards the root. Catch one of these sometimes slender tendrils around an ankle while walking, and you might think you can just pull through it... and rapidly learn that you shouldn't.

If you can't convince someone to pick them for you, go armoured. I have some old fire turn-out pants that help quite a bit.

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