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• n  fast-growing vine from eastern Asia having tuberous starchy roots and hairy trifoliate leaves and racemes of purple flowers followed by long hairy pods containing many seeds; grown for fodder and forage and root starch; widespread in the southern United States

• kudzu
• Pueraria lobata

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• Charlotte woman trying to fight kudzu invasion
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A Charlotte woman is afraid the kudzu vines from property she says is owned by the airport, is going to take over her home. Virginia McGinn, who is 80, wrestles in her front yard every day with a seemingly endless kudzu vine that stretches into her yard from across McAlpine Drive. "Eventually it will cover my house.  It will get up in the trees and cover everything," said ...
  July 11, 2013 - WCNC Charlotte