On: The Agave Plant's Asparagus Death Fetish (2017)

[athenot]

Here in the South, Kudzu is a vine that will grow about a foot a day, and engulf trees (and abandoned houses).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kudzu#/media/File:Kudzu_on_tre...

[rm_-rf_slash → athenot]

>Kudzu was introduced from Japan into the United States at the Japanese pavilion in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia.

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>During World War II, kudzu was introduced to Vanuatu and Fiji by United States Armed Forces to serve as camouflage for equipment and has become a major weed

The irony.

[mikec3010 → athenot]

Kudzu was also the name of one of the first hardware detection scripts for early Linux distros