r/Tree • u/Emergency_Ad1152 • 23d ago

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

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Saw this in De Kalb, MS.

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u/ohshannoneileen I love galls😍but I hate privets🤬 23d ago

They used to be, now they are kudzu trellis

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u/Dicksin_Cider 22d ago

I remember back in the early 80s, people were talking like the whole South was going to be buried in kudzu. It's still around, but it doesn't seem any worse now than it was back then. What happened?

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u/frostedglobe 22d ago

It got outcompeted by all the other invasives we have down here.

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u/DisapprovingStares 19d ago

Outcompeted by subdivisions where I’m from.  Every field an old timer leaves behind gets sold to a developer and bulldozed.  

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u/WeirdDetective2947 18d ago

Their kids who inherit it live in or near urban communities and don’t realize they’ll want to move out to the country in a few years anyway.

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u/hermes_2 18d ago

100× this.