Saturday, October 17, 2020

Tumblr Thread: Kudzu Is A Scary Monster Plant


Ah yes, leave it to the brilliant minds of Tumblr to take us down a rabbit hole about how plants can genuinely wage war against the rest of the world. In this case, we're talking about the kudzu. The kudzu plants would fit right into a horror novel. Check out some more gold from Tumblr with this thread about the still-on submarines. 

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Text - inconsequential S linesofreturninggeese Follow just-shower-thoughts Follow Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. "I killed your friend, here hold him." mojave-wasteland-official "Friend" Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory. theun--sj Follow Plants don't wage war

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Text - mojave-wasteland-official Ever heard of blackberries? Yes, plants do wage war kasaron Follow Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else. systlin Follow I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago. It's currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

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Text - Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries. And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint. moirakatson Follow This post did not go where I expected it to. S deathbeforednf Follow Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursin

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Text - 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later. Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there. norseminuteman Follow Yall mother don't even talk unless you've had to

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Text - Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed. E breadgunner Can second the comments of Kudzu. I forget where I read it but there's this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that's in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant's seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a scorched earth policy. It's even more badass than plants that use toxin

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Nature - See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu. e zachsanomaiy Follow Kudzu is an apocalyptic nightmare They smother every other living plant to death

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Natural landscape - Those trees under there are dead, they can't get sunlight. Kudzu takes over and steals everything from these trees, and becomes them. It's creepy as hell. These plants are basically straight out of a horror novelist's wet dream tbh.

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Vegetation - The bodies of everything the kudzu has slain.

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Vegetation - What used to be a house

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Vegetation - WINEY Someone attempting to drive a four wheeler through it, to give you scale It's an ornamental plant kept in check in china, but was introduced to north america where it immediately went rampant and began to

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Text - spread incredibly fast like a disease, destroying everything in its wake The ONLY thing that has stopped this curse from engulfing the united states is goats. Apparently goats love this stuff like no tomorrow. Everywhere we find it now, we just bring a horde of goats to cut it down. Everything is fine.. for now. e zachsanomaiy Follow Kudzu is on time magazine's top 10 invasive species to look out for.

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Vegetation

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Goat - This little buddy doing his part UNCOTV zachsanomaiy Follow Not to keep spamming this post but

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Leaf - Iadestatian of Kutru in dhe linited States "the growth of kudzu as it became a "structural parasite" of the South, [7] enveloping entire structures when untreated[11] and often referred to as "the vine that ate the South".[13]" "It has been spreading rapidly in the southern U.S., "easily outpacing the use of herbicide spraying and mowing, as well increasing the costs of these controls by $6 million annually". [21" yall it's been estimated this plant consumes

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Text - 600 kilometers of the united states every year it's been suggested that we just start eating it to make it go away nixieseal Adding to the spam: yes, kudzu IS edible. In fact, all parts of it but the vine are edible. The leaves are supposedly great in salads or baked into quiche. The flowers supposedly are great in jam. The roots.. Well, if you know how to cook other root vegetables, you know what to do with kudzu root. Feed this stuff to your livestock and cook it. Eat it before it eats

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Text - 3-ducks-in-a-trenchcoat Follow In this world it's eat or be eaten gamebird Follow Thread starts with the existential angst of building a treehouse. Ends with recipes on how to eat kudzu. Posts that make you go 'hm? Source: just-shower-thoughts 221,327 notes

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