[Am-info] AIDS in Africa

[John J. Urbaniak]

"Stuart J. Hysom" wrote:

> Mike,
>
> You are clearly not from the South.  Kudzu is
> the most pernicious weed in the region, maybe
> the world.  It moves into a forest and before
> too long that forest may well be a field.  A
> field of nothing but kudzu.  It moves in,
> wraps itself around everything, and kills
> all.  It is like a vine and grows faster than
> you can believe.  During the middle of
> summer, you can quite literally see it grow.
> It is not native to the South, but was
> brought in intentionally, it think, as a
> ground cover. Oops.
>

I'm not from the South, but I've seen Kudzu.

I think it was brought in because some other plant, maybe water
hyacinth, was spreading too rapidly.

John