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Article: KUDZU MARCHES EVER NORTHWARD.(AT HOME)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 8, 2001
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Byline: Marianna Riley Scripps Howard News Service
Kudzu, the monster vine that turned much of Dixie into a landscape of exotic green, is now gobbling up sections of several states above the Mason-Dixon Line.
Anyone who has driven through the southeastern United States is familiar with kudzu, which spreads its leafy green mantle over trees, fences, utility poles, abandoned houses and buses.
Southerners joke that kudzu might just turn a slow-moving cow into landscape. But able to grow as much as a foot a day, the vine is no joke.
In the north, kudzu's appetite is less voracious. Missouri and Illinois are considered the northern fringe ...