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Cakemeister:
Hello,

I was doing a little post-Ike cleanup and I saw this plant. In the attached picture, it's growing around the grill, but I had already cleaned it out around that bush. It seems like the vines of this plant were growing around the leaves and stuff of the plant.

So is this stuff the dreaded kudzu? What should I do with it?

Regards,
CM

ChadTower:

If it is, you can nuke it from orbit.  It's the only way to be sure.

Benevolance:
According to wikipedia, you could cook it:


--- Quote ---The non-woody parts of the plant are edible. The young leaves can be used for salad or cooked as a leaf vegetable, the flowers battered and fried (like squash flowers), and the starchy tuberous roots can be prepared as any root vegetable.
--- End quote ---

ChadTower:

Oh, yeah, there are tons of uses for it.  Some parts are edible - the leaves make a good salad and the roots are nice starch.  The problem is that if he doesn't obliterate it, and it is kudzu, it won't be long before it takes over his yard.  This stuff grows a foot a day in the summer and returns if you even leave a small part of a single root in the soil.

Benevolance:
A foot a day? Wow. He'd better learn to make big salads.

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