Kudzu! I keep saying, kudzu will save the world.
Kudzu grows too fast for anybody to keep up - no matter HOW they try to dispose of it.
It is the plant that ate the planet!
On the other hand, imagine a Japanese immigrant bringing a single sprig of kudzu in from Japan to the first trail across the Cumberland - following innocently along behind ole Danial Boone as he hacks his way across virgin woodlands and trackless forests.....
They reach the end of the trail.
Turn around, intending to make their slow way home using the blazes cut in tree bark on the way west.
And find ......
Billions of kudzu vines, covering tens of thousands of square miles of (former) forest lands .... Trackless and overhung. With tons of green drooping vines that will burn in the winter in unstoppable Forest fires - yielding only more spaces to cultivate more kudzu vines the next season.
America would have never been settled.
- I just looked it up on Google. Good grief! This stuff grows at one foot a day, up to 100 feet in length and has a tap root 8 in. wide that goes 12 feet deep.
There was a science fiction horror story some years back called, “The Day of the Triffids” in which these huge flesh eating plants had threatened mankind with their fast growing, aggressive ways.
If the Kudzu ate protein, I’d be really worried.
Kudzu and Cottonwoods.