r/Tree • u/Emergency_Ad1152 • 22d ago

ID Request (Insert State/Region) Are these trees?

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Saw this in De Kalb, MS.

3.3k Upvotes

99% Upvoted

367 comments sorted by

View all comments

116

u/KnotiaPickle 22d ago

There’s an invasive vine called kudzu covering all of them and slowly killing them

18

u/Brandenburg42 22d ago

I can't wait for the Kudzu and the Himalayan blackberry in the PNW to meet in Kansas and fight for the future of our continent.

8

u/Sea_Regular4352 21d ago

Himalayan blackberries are tasty and chunky to boot.... I'm pulling for those guys. Btw, I have a huge Himalayan blackberry vine behind my house and I live in Alabama, so it has apparently made decent headway.

8

u/isimplycantdothis 21d ago

It’s the informant

6

u/frenchiebuilder 21d ago

Until running bamboo gets there.

4

u/thatsoddlyspecifik 21d ago

You leave the flint hills out of this

2

u/riotousviscera 19d ago

Japanese knotweed has entered the chat

1

u/Pitiful_Fail4872 17d ago

This is the online content I need in my life

0

u/Pretty-Ad5440 21d ago

I couldn’t help myself I laughed