Source: ASHEVILLE CITIZEN-TIMES, 3/10/17

The first time David Cozzo, an ethnobotanist specializing in medicinal plants, saw kudzu, he was on a back road driving through the Piedmont region of North Carolina.  Kudzu-choked trees loomed out of the late-dusk darkness like shaggy ghosts, tall as buildings. “I’m looking at the side of the road and it looked like giants and dinosaurs," Cozzo recalled. "I was terrified, but impressed.”

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