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Post by buster on Aug 21, 2009 10:46:48 GMT 8
Are botanists that rare that CFI cannot identify with certainty the plant which is covering more and more of Corregidor every time I visit? This is a portion of Malinta Hill's western slope. Notice how the vine overtops the tree, and will likely kill it, not by strangulation but by blocking out the sunlight.
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Post by okla on Aug 22, 2009 8:37:24 GMT 8
hey buster....that vinelike foliage looks very much like kudzu or a similar vine. that crap was imported from japan during the 1930s by the US government and used extensively in the american south to combat soil erosion. well it did the job and then some. it literally got out of control, growing over outbuildings, fence lines, telephone poles, windmills, etc. it was and i understand, still is a problem. its virtually impossible to kill out. the last time i was in alabama, louisiana, and mississippi was in the 1980s and it was running rampant in many places. you could almost SEE it spreading with the naked eye. a small exaggeration here, but you get my drift. if this stuff in your photo is japanese kudzu, i find it rather ironic that the japs are, indirectly, taking over corregidor once again. a real botanist might prove me wrong, but it sure appears to be that dastardly stuff or an offshoot of it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2010 8:45:58 GMT 8
True - it is kudzu .. a real pest. The red flowers are the tip off .. also a 3 part leaf. I just posted a new Kuzdu topic on maybe using it as a "crop" on Coregidor. Look for the new topic.
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