Kudzu, the vine that swallowed the South, with a growth rate of 1 foot per day, is native to East Asia and was first brought to the United States in 1876 for the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. In ...
Kudzu, originally native to Japan, is known as "the vine that ate the South." The federal government began paying farmers $8 an acre in the 1930s to plant it across the south because it was touted to ...