What is this New England parasitic vine?
Question:There is this aggressive parasitic vine I am trying to identify. I knew what it was once but didn't write it down. It is a woody vine with spade-shaped green leaves (sometimes fatter spades, almost circular; sometimes thinner) that alternate, and bright orange roots. Leave edges are very slightly scalloped. It spreads by root very pervasively. A photo is available at http://picasaweb.google.com/eewanco/para... .
Answers:
Bittersweet, it is an Asian transplant.
In the fall it will have beautiful berries of yellow that will burst open into quarter slices revealing and orange berry.
Many people harvest them for door wreaths!
I spray herbicides and pull and dig and curse!
Thanks to the Highway dept. who imported them years ago to cover the steep embankments on the sides of major high ways. Or that is what I was told anyhow!
Bind weed
I don't know the name of it but its all over the south and loves to mix in with landscape material and roses.Its tough to kill or remove but we use carefully sprayed roundup,good luck
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