Kudzu was planted across the US South in the 1930s to fight soil erosion, but later it became the vine that 'ate the South' sprawling across roadsides and abandoned land

Once celebrated as a miracle plant that could save farmland from erosion, kudzu eventually became America's most notorious invasive vine. Thick green curtains draped over trees, telephone poles and abandoned buildings across parts of the US South earned it the nickname "the vine that ate the South".

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