Oriental bittersweet has fast-growing vines that develop red berries covered with a yellow calyx in autumn. - Karel Bock/Shutterstock Of the many different invasive vines that trouble American ...

Escapees can be very dangerous. One of the worst offenders is an aggressive alien plant called 'Oriental bittersweet' that you see smothering and strangling trees and shrubs everywhere. This invasive ...

A press release from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA): As Minnesotans decorate their homes for the holiday season, the MDA is asking them to watch for Oriental bittersweet, an invasive ...

November’s Weed of the Month, Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), is a woody vine with colorful red fruit. It was brought to North America from the Asia and used as an ornamental plant. The ...

Tivon Feeley, Forest Health Program Leader for the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, sounded a warning to avoid using oriental bittersweet in holiday wreaths. The woody vine with its bright red ...

But Oriental bittersweet doesn't travel by itself. And it doesn't stay small for long. The invasive transplant from eastern Asia is jumping the fence from backyards to woodlots. It's choking, shading ...

Like so many plants that became pests, oriental bittersweet was intentionally introduced in the 1860s in the U.S. — another proof, if we need it, that messing with Mother Nature rarely works out how ...

Q. What can you tell me about bittersweet? I love to use it in holiday arrangements, but I have been told by some friends it is an invasive plant. A. There are two kinds of bittersweet – one is a ...

LET’S HEAD TO GROVER GREEN. ♪ -- GROW IT GREEN. RAY: I AM JOINED BY EMMA AND WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ORIENTAL BITTERSWEET. >> YES. THIS IS AN INVASIVE VINE THAT WAS BROUGHT OVER FROM ASIA TO BE ...

Have you seen the beautiful strangler lurking in our neighborhoods? Is he perhaps haunting your backyard right now? The destroyer I`m referring to is one that stealthily scrambles up trees at the edge ...