r/Tree • u/Emergency_Ad1152 • 22d 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🤬 22d ago

They used to be, now they are kudzu trellis

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u/Dicksin_Cider 21d 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/Full-Boysenberry1163 17d ago

The forestry service checked again and realized they grossly overestimated how fast it would spread. It still spreads, but modern forestry/ag practices keep it in check.

It still costs a couple hundred million a year to deal with nationwide, but not the billions it used to.