But the myth of kudzu had been firmly rooted. Those roadside plantings—isolated from grazing, impractical to manage, their shoots shimmying up the trunks of second-growth trees—looked like ...

It sprawls across the landscape in an unstoppable way, covering everything in its path, including buildings, the ground, and trees. Unfortunately, kudzu ends up smothering other plants and killing ...

Kudzu typically grows a foot a day—with mats of the vine capable of growing 35-100 feet along landscapes, trees and buildings ...

In winter, in an expression of gratitude for the past year, Harano Etsuro decorates a medicinal tree to welcome the New Year. Digging for kudzu in the mountains of Yoshino—treasures lie beneath ...