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In article , Julia Altshuler wrote:
Blair P. Houghton wrote: http://www.a-spi.org/tp/tp55.htm

Thanks for that informative site. I got the information about kudzu
starch giving creamier results than corn starch right but had never
known how it was made.

We've all probably seen this before, but it makes me laugh every time
anyway so here goes: http://www.locksley.com/kudzu.htm

Hah! That seems to be the site missing from the link at the bottom of
this page: http://www.yahoolavista.com/kudzu/
which has some spectacular photos of kudzu on the rampage!
Some of the images are clickable and will take you to a gallery of
other images on the topic e.g. Houses [immersed in kudzu!].

Here's a bit more stuff on culinary and medicinal uses:
http://www.herbsarespecial.com.au/free-herb-information/kudzu.html

To scare yourself witless, have a squiz at the known compounds:
http://sun.ars-grin.gov:8080/npgspub...duke/plantdisp.
xsql?taxon=804 [ Or try http://tinyurl.com/qhx5d for that one.]

or, if you prefer, their activities:
http://sun.ars-grin.gov:8080/npgspub/xsql/duke/pl_act.xsql?taxon=804

Kudzu is a "declared" weed in at least some parts of Australia:
http://www.dpi.nsw.gov.
au/agriculture/noxweed/noxious-app?
sq_content_src=aHR0cDovL3d3d2kuYWdyaWMubnN3Lmdvdi5 hdS9hcHBzL3ZpZXd3ZWV
kLmh0bWw%253D&weed_id=76

Oh, gawd! Make that http://tinyurl.com/fp2kv

According to that URL, kudzu "... must be fully and continuously
suppressed and destroyed" in the named shires in NE NSW.
(And I suspect the operative word here is "continuously". :)

Cheers, Phred.

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LID