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1. Pueraria montana var. lobata (vine, climber)  English 
Kudzu (Pueraria montana var. lobata ) roots can comprise over 50% of the plant’s biomass, serving as an organ for carbohydrate storage for recovery after disturbance and making it difficult to control the weed with herbicides. Only in the southeastern United States is kudzu considered a serious pest, however, it is recently established and invasive in Europe in Italy and Switzerland. Impacts of kudzu include loss of productivity of forestry plantations (estimated at about 120 USD per hectare per year) and smothering and killing of native plants.
Common Names: acha, aka, foot-a-night vine, Japanese arrowroot, Ko-hemp, Kopoubohne, kudzu, kudzu común, kudzu vine, Kudzu-Kletterwein, kuzu, nepalem, vigne japonaise, vine-that-ate-the-South, wa yaka
Synonyms: Dolichos hirsutus Thunberg, Dolichos lobatus Willd., Pachyrrhizus thunbergianus Siebold & Zuccarini, Pueraria hirsuta (Thunb.) C. Schneider, Pueraria lobata var. thomsonii (Benth.) Maesen, Pueraria lobata (Willd.) Ohwi, Pueraria montana (Lour.) Merr. var. lobata (Willd.), Pueraria thunbergiana (Sieb. & Zucc.) Benth.

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