Kudzu is also edible to humans and is a delicacy in Japan. I had it once at some fancy restaurant in Kyoto. It was served as an edible garnish for a tofu dish. It tastes like just about any other sort of greens.
Although, I wouldn’t necessarily recommend eating large quantities of it every day.
Japanese people are somewhat mystified that Kudzu grows so wild here. It doesn’t take over there as it does here, for some reason.
It doesn’t take over landscapes there because it’s native to their land, which means there are species (including humans) that limit its growth.
dude a “Kudzu kitchen” type restaurant would be a golden business opportunity here…
Goats “trim” the kudzu back, but further work is usually needed to keep it from returning. There are taproots that have to be located and dug up, or the goats will need to be brought in several years in a row to munch it back to the ground repeatedly.
It can be done, but it’s not a quick fix.
We also have some sort of Kudzu beetle that made it’s way to the Atlanta Airport and is spreading out from there. Our biggest Kudzu issues around my postage stamp of earth, 100 miles from ATL, is greatly reduced from a decade ago.
Big, tall, and beautiful 
I predict a lot of “I wish they were taller” comments here when these top off.
Why wait? 
Damn, I wish they were much taller 
Good news, they’re getting taller every day! 
It’s really impressive how big this has gotten since we left in June of last year. I don’t think they had even gotten the initial foundation in place yet.
until one day they don’t. mwah mwah
This just in: 1900s America was UNHINGED and had almost zero foresight whatsoever lmao
What just because Coca-Cola had cocaine in it, and the cure for female hysteria was a male doctor doing… stuff?
They are now visible from I-40, too. Just noticed them the other day when driving past the S. Saunders exit.
Yeah but they had their “freedom”. 
Now what do they look like covered in Kudzu?
Kudzu Brutalist would be a good band name
do you know how pissed off I’d these short ass excuses for towers actually came to fruition. this travesty would be a complete was of time and resources and a detriment to the mental health of john, gucci, yimby, myself, and every other tall building enjoyer on this forum…tables would be flipped. kids would cry. hopes and dreams shattered.
a glorified 10-over-1 basically and utter embarrassment to the city of raleigh to say the least.
