| The scrub that borders the tracks is overgrown with kudzu, an imported plant that strangles the natives. |
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| If I made baskets with all the kudzu in the South, everyone would have a hundred baskets. |
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| Baskin points to Asian long-horned beetles, kudzu, zebra mussels, West Nile virus, spotted knapweed, and caulerpa seaweed as just a few culprits. |
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| A fungus from the sicklepod plant, Arabis canadensis, found in the south-eastern United States, effectively controls kudzu. |
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| Originally, kudzu was promoted in the 1800s as an erosion control and cheap livestock forage for the eastern and southern United States. |
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| Today she uses kudzu paper to make more than 150 different notecard designs, each with a Native American story on the back. |
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| While kudzu extract won't magically turn alcoholics into non-drinkers, it might help others cut back on booze. |
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| This is a lesson that Southern farmers would have done well to remember when they were planting kudzu in the thirties. |
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| Other kudzu entrepreneurs make sculptures, bales for animal feed, kudzu cookbooks, kudzu soaps, and kudzu dyes for t-shirts. |
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| But beyond the city limits, where the kudzu creeps over buildings and trees, the mood can turn darker. |
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| An extract from the root of the notorious creeping vine, kudzu, may also prove helpful. |
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| Michael and I spent two days, sometimes on hands and knees, in a chigger-infested jungle of pine and kudzu seeking vestiges of the Gudger shack. |
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| From their experimental beginnings, PC-based supercomputers could then start spreading like kudzu. |
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| In practice, the red tape that grows like kudzu at state and local levels is ofetn felt more keenly by would-be entrepreneurs. |
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| First, it turns out the landowner whose field was invaded by the kudzu knew of its presence there for at least a dozen years. |
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| The troublesome plant called kudzu, a weed considered a major nuisance in some areas of the U. S., has been found. |
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| The kudzu had crawled about 10 metres into a field of soybeans, and had covered the surrounding vegetation including some hardwood trees. |
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| The final piece of the Leamington kudzu mystery is that no one really knows how it got there. |
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| But the fact is Ontario's first kudzu patch could have been there for decades. |
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| Members of an NPS Exotic Plant Management Team battle the invasive vine kudzu. |
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| A former federal plant scientist who lives in the region spotted a 250-metre wide kudzu patch while on a hike along the beach. |
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| Another study conducted on heavy drinkers showed that kudzu reduced the amount of alcohol that they absorbed. |
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| Another study showed that kudzu lowered alcohol consumption in rats selectively bred to crave alcohol. |
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| Kate Peyser checked on the kudzu vine near the Scarsdale Railway Station. |
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| Further experiments suggest that the animals did not appear to develop a dependence on kudzu. |
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| Multiflora rose, kudzu, and oriental bittersweet are substantially less abundant in the coastal plain, where agriculture is extensively practiced. |
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| During 1998, kudzu was included by legislators in the United States Congress on a growing list of invasive, exotic plants recognized under the Federal Noxious Weed Law. |
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| In addition, kudzu ranked second-highest in terms of its potential impact on natural systems, because it is capable of overgrowing and decimating mature stands of trees. |
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| While in college, Manning, now 35, interned at a national park, where he noticed that kudzu and other nuisance plants were choking out native species. |
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| During a trip to China, David Lee, a chemist, observed that many people drank a tea containing kudzu. |
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| It was subsequently discovered that the Southeastern United States has ideal conditions for kudzu to grow out of control. |
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| Between them, live-oaks and kudzu grow in humped green walls. |
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| To properly manage kudzu, stem cutting should be immediately followed with the application of a herbicide directly on the cut stem. |
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| But, just as often, it feels affected or expositional — once you slash through the verbal kudzu, there's surprisingly little subtext. |
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| In rural southwest Georgia, Highway 137 heads out of tiny Buena Vista, past neatly kept lawns, then through patches of kudzu and stands of scrub pine. |
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| Confederate monuments are sprinkled throughout Dixie like kudzu, and frequent re-enactments of Civil War battles are enormously popular. |
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| On a recent afternoon the sun shone brightly on Blue Springs, a town in the state's north-east thick with scrub trees and kudzu vines. |
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| Those include goutweed, tree of heaven, oriental bittersweet, black swallowwort and kudzu. |
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| Cats, the Times told us, are a pestilence akin to gypsy moths and kudzu. |
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| The effect of usance of plant oestrogens from kudzu, puerarin isoflavones, which are unique in Kudzu, would be much less invasive than traditional therapies for the menopause because of its natural origin. |
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| Under favourable growing conditions, kudzu can overwhelm nearby crops, bushes and entire trees, engulfing them in a smothering, leafy layer of foliage. |
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| Tenuta says seeds may have come from bird droppings from Canada geese or other species, or washed ashore from Michigan or Ohio, where kudzu has also been found. |
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| But questions are arising over whether kudzu patches such as the one found in Leamington might provide those spores with a safe winter haven, especially as the climate changes. |
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| Cut kudzu can be fed to livestock, burned, or composted. |
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| Broomrape, kudzu and giant hogweed also have made the State Weed Board's dubious roster. |
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| Cooked with water and umeboshi plum, kudzu is a powerful home remedy that strengthens and relieves many imbalances. |
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| For example, the introduction of kudzu from Southeast Asia to Canada and the United States has threatened biodiversity in certain areas. |
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| A number of fast spreading plants such as kudzu have been introduced as a means of erosion control. |
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| Naturally derived from kudzu vines and part of a Chinese herbal treatment reputed to prevent alcoholism, the chemical daidzin may prove a poent drug to combat alcohol abuse. |
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| That might seem reasonable, since there are a few species, such as kudzu, purple loosestrife, and water hyacinth, that grow with alarming speed wherever they show up. |
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| Unlike Weasleycest, which has spread across the fandom like kudzu, Malfoycest has always been more difficult to find, and its writers a bit more secretive. |
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| Kudzu as local biomass is an example of lignocellulosic material that has been used in this study. |
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| Kudzu stands as a trusted resource for consumers to share their experiences with others. |
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| Native to Japan, Kudzu is a leguminous, weedy vine with pubescent stems, trifoliate leaves, and a perennial deep root system. |
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| Gypsy moth, Kudzu vine, Dutch elm disease, chestnut blight, starlings and Mediterranean fruit flies come easily to mind. |
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