#2642

Kudzu is invasive. It is an ever-growing expanse of leaves and vines, Blanketing landscapes in green powder snow as it consumes them. Its main predator is humans, Who use its leaves and fibres for textiles and food. That is, unless it is left alone to fester and spread, unmaintained.

My parents know it as gegen, A root used in traditional chinese medicine. There is no focus on the radiation of vegetation that infects an ecosystem, Just as I did not know its roots were thick and fat like yams. They joke that if people knew it was in our area they would dig them up and eat them all.

Galiza terra adentro, na luz

@ksjanes:  “ As illas bañaron a luz “