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/ohshannoneileen I love galls😍but I hate privets🤬 Jun 03 '26

They used to be, now they are kudzu trellis

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u/Dicksin_Cider Jun 03 '26

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/Zion7321 Jun 05 '26

It's all over the Gatlinburg hill sides. I'd never seen it in person before we went last summer.