Large numbers of vines can grow from a single rhizome ... but they are not guaranteed to combat established plants. Kudzu ...

Kudzu plant (Florida State Library and Archives ... it could reportedly grow up to a foot a day — or around 60 feet within a single growing season. This pamphlet was distributed by the Florida ...

In the 1930s, farmers and government agents across the American South sowed fields with a popular new Asian import called kudzu that promised to help fight devastating erosion problems. The ...

Kudzu grows rapidly, and outcompetes native plants, leading to biodiversity loss ... and creating vast monocultures (areas ...

One notorious example of this vector is kudzu, a viny plant species that originated in Asia and was first brought into this country as an exhibit in the 1876 World Fair held in Philadelphia ...