Delicate vines cascade over the massive trunk of a fallen tree, weaving patterns like silent dancers in a forgotten forest. Moss clings to the bark as sunlight filters through the canopy ...

As a botanist and horticulturist, I couldn’t help but wonder why people thought kudzu was a unique threat when so many other vines grow just as fast in the warm, wet climate of the South.

The parasitic vine Cuscuta campestris grows by latching onto the stems and leaves of plants and inserting organs called haustorium into the host plant tissues to draw nutrients. The haustorium is ...

The finding, reported March 26 in New Phytologist, comes from a years-long effort at Barro Colorado Nature Monument in ... trees and get rid of parasitic vines. A particularly powerful impact ...