The good news is that's edible and apparently tastes good.

hardwaregeek 23 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I’ve proposed that someone open a restaurant of invasive species. You could make some decent dishes with lionfish, blackberries, golden oyster mushrooms, venison, etc

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throwway120385 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Himalayan Blackberry produces untold numbers of very large fruits and it's still so aggressive you have to ruthlessly clear it before it grows under your foundations and into your driveway and walls. It takes over every patch of ground it gets access to and it will send runners down 20 or 30 foot concrete walls from the top of the freeway. I once saw it grow a runner up to the top of a 40-foot tree and then back down to the ground 10 feet away. The thorns are so thick it will penetrate everything but duck cotton. I have to wear welding gloves when I'm clearing it because it can go right through gardening gloves. It is a hell plant sent to torment us for our hubris.

If you've ever bought or eaten "marionberry" this plant is where it grows.

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voidUpdate 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Same with Kudzu, and apparently that's an unstoppable plant too

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HelloMcFly an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Kudzu's threat has been long overstated. It thrives especially near forest edgelands which are always visible on highways, so concern of prevalence was partially based on individual sampling error. In reality, its presence in southern forests is higher than desired but still not disastrous (~0.1% of southern forestland), which is a fraction of worse invasives: Japanese honeysuckle (4.4%) and Asian privet (1.4%).

	▲	whicks 43 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Genuinely curious, source for this? > ~0.1% of southern forestland), which is a fraction of worse invasives: Japanese honeysuckle (4.4%) and Asian privet (1.4%). Sample size of 1 here (I know), but I've spent a meaningful portion of my life outdoors in the south and I have _never_ seen swaths of the landscape covered with Japanese Honeysuckle or Asian Privet like I have Kudzu. It absolutely dominates _everything_ in areas where it's present here (not surprising when it can grow up to a 1 foot (0.3 m) a day.) Not trying to say you're incorrect, just trying to get a better handle on this. The thought that there are more destructive invasive plants in the US south than Kudzu is kind of blowing my mind.

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gessha 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Unstoppable until you acquire a bunch of goats.

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rkomorn 3 hours ago | parent [-]

But what if your goats become unstoppable?

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throwup238 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You start an unstoppable business cleaning up dams and freeways of brush.

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Akasazh 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Then you have found the goat

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ssm008 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apply wolves!

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u8080 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If they became unstoppable, we'll need unstoppable humans! Wait~~

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ux266478 an hour ago | parent [-]

We must continue this chain until we reach unstoppable sapient topological "aberrations" in space-time with reversed arrows of time.

	▲	rkomorn 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Christopher Nolan, is that you?

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nucleardog 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

But what if the wolves become unstoppable?

	▲	Izkata 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		We turn them into dogs.

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Asooka 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Goatherd's pie.

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moron4hire 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I would say that it's more accurate to say that kudzu is not poisonous. I definitely would not say it tastes good. It's got that "green plant" taste that you get from just chomping on any ol' leaf you might find. I mean, if you're poor and starving you could maaaaaybe survive on Kudzu, but it will be rough, it's not very calorie dense, even for a leafy green. Goats won't even eat it unless there is literally nothing else to eat. This whole, "oh you, can eat kudzu!" thing is just crunchy-mom Instagram influencer bullshit.

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voidUpdate an hour ago | parent [-]

You might want to tell the japanese and vietnamese that it doesn't taste good then, they seem to have been using it as food for quite a while now

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yorwba an hour ago | parent [-]

The root, not the leaves.

	▲	voidUpdate an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Well it's lucky I didn't say anything about the leaves then