My favorite (most eye-opening) quote:
The real problem is that Hawai‘i is still a modern-day colonial state that has, generation after generation, displaced the Native Hawaiian people from the land, their natural resources, way of life, and culture.
Friends, *I'm* the one who brought this deeply annoying, invasive, and aggressive vine to my place. I'm pretty certain I know how: it was probably in some coconuts I brought in from an ex-friend's property for use as mulch (I remember these vines growing amongst the coconuts at his place).
And now it's a huge problem. It grows so fast and covers everything and even if you get most of it in an area, it'll come back from the tiniest pieces. and it sends out vines underneath a bunch of other plants and puts up leaves where it finds an opening. The vine breaks very easily, so pieces of it easily remain in the soil. I honestly am not even sure everywhere that it's vined to at this point, and I just have to keep cleaning and cleaning till I can hopefully at least contain it.
It's fabaceae, and if it wasn't so aggressive in covering everything, it might even be tolerable. But it's very aggressive and since we don't have freezing temps, it'll just keep going...
It pains me so much to know that I, through my own ignorance and carelessness, brought this thing to my place, and now it hurts my other plants and is a huge problem for me - a problem I may not be able to contain.
Before I got here, this horrible invasive wasn't here...and now it is and I did it. So I work on it a bit at a time, and hopefully I'll eventually get rid of it and go back to zero. If I'm lucky.
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Moani
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