Re:Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015)
by briefcomment on Sunday June 28, 2020 @05:02PM
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Would you mind expanding on why there is a war on invasives?
Re:Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015)
by mobilefriendly on Sunday June 28, 2020 @09:47PM
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Invasive plants displace native ones; in the mid-Atlantic where I live, Chinese tree of heaven are everywhere. They crowd out walnut and other hardwoods, they aren't as tall and attractive, and the wood isn't clean burning. Our problem is also deer over-population-- the deer devastate the native trees and bushes but not the invasives.
Re:Kudzu, the vine that never truly ate the South (2015)
by joecool1029 on Sunday June 28, 2020 @11:03PM
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>Chinese tree of heaven are everywhere.
Ghetto palm also attracts the latest chinese hell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_lanternfly
People are destroying native plant habitats, and creating the perfect conditions for invasives. In fact 90+% of native species aren't threatened by invasives. The invasives actually help heal the soil for native plants.
The author then asks, why then is there a war on invasives? And that's where the book gets good imo.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25782048-beyond-the-war-...