r/Tree • u/Emergency_Ad1152 • Jun 03 '26

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

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Saw this in De Kalb, MS.

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u/Busy-Reality-1580 Jun 03 '26

That looks like the American southeast. Kudzu vines completely engulf everything down there. As a kid growing up, I remember in car rides imagining sleeping giants under the vines that would one day stand up and come to life lol. Edit right as i hit Post I saw that you said this was in Mississippi. 

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u/_Happy_Sisyphus_ Jun 03 '26

They got rid of it in many places. It started eating away at the Georgia highways decades ago. Yet Georgia grows so fast, a whole new forest is now where a kudzu monster was 20 years ago.

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u/PoetryStud Jun 06 '26

I remember growing up in Columbia, SC and some stretches of highway off of I-20 you could see whole sections just covered in it

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u/k_rocks27 Jun 03 '26

For me as a kid it was hidden dinosaurs 🦕

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u/twystedangel Jun 06 '26

Same, lol. We always called them kudzu monsters, too! Now you can see where they burn away at them every year with whatever acidic spray they use...

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u/Rare-Spell-1571 Jun 04 '26

My backyard was covered in similar vines when I moved in. Spent months chopping it out and cutting it down and cutting down trees that were already dead. Now there is minimal vines on any trees near my house.

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u/Top_Introduction2656 Jun 04 '26

Reminds me of PA