Kudzu, a Japanese vine originally brought to North Carolina in the late 1800s, is an invasive species that spreads rapidly, taking over resources that other plants need to survive. It can cause ...

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Jeanne Price has learned to love the wildy invasive kudzu vines that blanket so much of the South. That’s because the honeybees she keeps at a Bostic, N.C., farm can’t resist the sweet purple kudzu ...

WASHINGTON Kudzu, the nuisance vine that has overgrown almost 10 million acres in the southeastern United States, may sprout into a dietary supplement, according to an article in the current issue of ...

DIGGING DEEP: Permaculture educator Justin Holt excavates kudzu roots in North Asheville. Holt will share techniques for harvesting, processing and cooking with the roots of the fast-growing vine at ...

Soy molasses and kudzu roots contain isoflavonoids with high antioxidant and cytotoxic activity, scientists have discovered. Substances can help fight cancer, especially when chemotherapy or surgery ...

PHILADELPHIA — Kudzu, often reviled as “the vine that ate the South,” apparently brings something else to the table: a promising treatment for binge drinkers. Researchers at Harvard-affiliated McLean ...

Kudzu, a medicinal plant, has long thought to reduce alcohol dependence, but the precise mechanism remains a mystery. Recent research shows that pre-treatment with kudzu extract had little to no ...

ATLANTA — In the Southeast, you'll find kudzu draping the scenery off the side of the interstate. You'll find kudzu climbing that abandoned barn in your neighbor's backyard. And if you sit long enough ...

Southerners rue, curse and unhappily abide kudzu, but few of them ever eat it. The Internet’s awash in recipes for steamed kudzu leaves and powdered kudzu root starch, yet most folks who live where ...

You’ll find kudzu draping the scenery off the side of the interstate. You’ll find kudzu climbing that abandoned barn in your neighbor’s backyard. And if you sit long enough in one place in the South, ...