These vines are a crucial part of many rainforest ecosystems, but they can also stifle tree growth as they wrap around the forest and compete against trees for light. If these rainforests saw a ...

In Oak Ridge, trees are being strangled, suffocated and swallowed by vines. Kudzu. Virginia creeper. Poison ivy vines. Grapevines. Trumpet vines. Wisteria vines. English ivy vines in wooded yards.

has been raising concerns to his peers about an overwhelming quantity of invasive vines strangling and killing the tree population. With a push from a concerned resident, Reaves finally has been ...

Invasives are plaguing community gardens in Ottawa, and it's representative of a citywide problem, according to Coun. Marty ...

Professor Andy Marshall, from UniSC's Forest Research Institute, said the team had confirmed a "tipping point" in conditions that led to the dominance of liana, a woody vine that chokes trees and ...

And on top of that, the vine is hard to kill ... isn’t harmful to the environment here and doesn’t prefer to strangle trees to death. The two are similar, but there’s one key difference ...

Researchers discovered that a lightning strike damages the surrounding trees that directly compete for resources and also blasts away lianas, those woody parasitic vines known to strangle and ...

In parts of Peaks Island, heavy vines resembling thick mooring rope have twined themselves as much as 100 feet up trees, strangling them, smothering shrubs and saplings, and weakening nearby ...

HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — All those purple flowers we’re seeing hanging in trees right now may look beautiful, but looks can be deceiving. Depending on the type of Wisteria you have, the vine ...

Healthy mature trees provide benefits to the surrounding community, such as creating habitat and shade, sequestering carbon and controlling erosion. But when invasive vines take hold, tree health ...

Dog-strangling vines aren't actually strangling dogs ... which causes the destruction of hemlock trees. Galbraith said workers discovered the insect while assessing a forest.

The strike damaged 115 surrounding trees, half of which died within two years. Additionally, all the liana vines that covered the D. oleifera perished. The impacted tree, however, was practically ...