srt101fan

Same location showing changes over time? Yes, that could be interesting....

User ID

Cool pix. But no sense of menace to my eyes. No hey problemo !

User ID

By your own description kudzu is a huge success. The Civilian Conservation Corps might not like it ... but clearly, one does NOT argue with kudzu. Kudzu rules !

srt101fan

Yes, kudzu rules. That's why It's a menace. And I'm wondering how you can express that photographically.

You don't see the second picture posted by Linda as depicting a menacing scene. I can easily see it that way.

Many, many years ago, in New York, there was a Friday night radio program featuring horror stories. I remember one about a fungal slime that covered everything and turned people into mushroom creatures. Great stuff! (🙄)

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

For the building I would have an arm coming out of center column of Kudzu thereby suggesting that as in the "Little Shop of Horrors,"** that this plant has developed a taste for human flesh.

The over all shot could be overlaid with a close up photo showing the leafs of an individual stalk. Another thought would be to clone Kudzu onto the car suggesting how rapidly it grows. Here is what this innocent plant does out of control.

** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqFZuR6UzjA

capmike Loc: New Bern, NC

This last week in western NC. Made me stop my car and take a quick shot. There is a house under that green.

CM

Bigmike1 Loc: I am from Gaffney, S.C. but live in Utah.

Yep, that's kudzu all right. I grew up in South Carolina where it is about to take over the whole state. You can't kill it and it will grow 6 inches overnight. It is my understanding that it was brought from Japan. It is a real curse. It was in my front yard and I was always fighting it.

rodbarr Loc: Maryland

You can generally find abandoned farmhouses throughout the deep south that have been engulfed by Kudzu or other creeping green menaces. If the buildings are not fully engulfed, the contrast between the vibrant green and the bleached, usually unpainted wood of the building can be quite striking.

Guyserman Loc: Benton, AR

Here is a song about Kudzu that I filmed at a concert and posted to Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cypUzt6Wp_A

GerryER Loc: Virginia USA

Kudsu is edible. Problem is that it looks very much like poison ivy, so you don't want to get it confused if you are going to eat it!!

olemikey Loc: 6 mile creek, Spacecoast Florida

Interesting - I have a yearly battle with the "African Potato Vines" or "Air Potato" that, like Kudzu, you can almost see it growing daily, and wrap around everything. I do not use "Herbacides" as they kill everything else and do untold harm to the environment and anyone who gets it on them. University Of Florida started a pilot program with the state a few years back and brought in the Air Potato Leaf Beetle, I bought a box of them for the cost of shipping (a truly great investment as it turns out). I have my own colony of the beetles, they don't eat anything else in the yard, they haven't totally eliminated the vines, but they do keep up with them, and their larvae literally eat the entire leaf except for the vine stalk and the vanes in the leaves, turns them into "ghost leaves", look kinda like a leaf skeloton, and basically stops the growth, allowing me to control them. We tried to control them with our goat, but only one goat couild not possibly control several acres and forest behind us (and they go to the tree tops) and the goat get's really fat from all the vine leaves. A herd of flying goats, or tree climbing goats would really do a great job......... . . . . .....

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Just be careful when you are out and about photographing that you do not step on or become a human sized pod.

Dennis

dbrugger25 Loc: Raleigh, NC

The title should be: "Is the Car Next?"

srt101fan

This is a great photo to illustrate this topic. The chimney may not be readily recognizable as belonging to a "submerged" house, but that could be made clear if the photo is part of an article on kudzu.

Now imagine the photo without the chimney. There wouldn't be much to show the menacing aspect of the kudzu vine!?

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

The good fact about horribly invasive Kudzu is that it is edible. Free vines of salad. I have done some reading about invasive species and noticed Kudzu pictured on a couple album covers by the rock band R.E.M. Examples of what the OP is probably looking for.