She swears it's not kudzu, but I'm not convinced.

[arcana_mundi]

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[creases]

Kudzu looks like this.

I have heard of a thing called "trumpet vine" or "cow-itch" that has pods and leaves like that. Maybe that's what it is. Watch out, it's got an irritating poison.

[dvandom]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet_vine look right?

[arcana_mundi]

Thanks for the heads-up, J - no trumpet flowers and the leaves are just HUGE - like rilly rilly rilly big. So probably not trumpet vine, but I like starting to narrow down the options. In case it eats me.

[realwitchiepoo]

http://www.jjanthony.com/kudzu/houses.html - I really hope it's not kudzu after looking at these pictures. Does it get little purple flowers?

[arcana_mundi]

clusters of little white ones, is what it has now.

[juniperus]

O_O

I think I saw that movie. Watch out for the pods!

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Triffids!

[arcana_mundi]

AAAAAAAGHHHH

I bet that's where my squicky feelings about them come from. They are officially being called triffids around here now!

[e2satori]

It's like the book The Ruins! Which was easily my favorite guilty pleasure book of the last decade, so that's actually kind of cool. (Bonus points if the plant SPEAKS DIRECTLY TO YOUR MIND IN GUTTURAL TENDRILLY WHISPERS and INVADES YOUR VERY BEING, causing you to SAVAGELY BUTCHER YOUR COMRADES.)

But still, invest in some industrial-strength Roundup (or a really big rabbit).

[arcana_mundi]

*twitch*

*twitch*

*gibber*

:-)

[momomom]

That pod really looks like trumpet vine but the growth is rather rapid for trumpet vine if that was all from this year. Is it perhaps a mix of wild grapes and some trumpet vine?

"I'll be back"....

[momomom]

Both trumpet vine and grape vine are perennials.

[arcana_mundi]

Momomom: You know, they look a LOT more like grape leaves to me than trumpet vine - no trumpet flowers, for onesies and twosies. The only flowers it puts out are clusters of tiny white flowers. The leaves are HUGE. There are lots of pretty curly tendrils. I thought at first that it was rabid wild zucchini. Then the tiny white flowers came instead of little yellow ones.

[arcana_mundi]

P.S. Not just one summer - that whole bush-covering routine? That is the explosion of one month's growth. A month ago it was just a few tendrils, some pretty little vines, and then BOOM.