That made me look into its benefits. It’s eatable and is used in cooking, the article says. I’d try the leaves next time I run across it. Apparently it’s big in Chinese medicine.
Found this on one of my trail rides. It’s blanketing the understory of a younger forest. There’s too many acres of it and too densely populated to be indigenous. Found it to be the invasive autumn olive. Asian tree brought over to be used for erosion control.
Apparently one of our beetles is causing havoc in China. It seems we only hear about Asian plants and insects doing damage in North America and Europe but not vice versa. Google is even silent on this issue for the most part but I found this.
It’s easy to think about all the invasive trees from Asia and China in particular. We seem to have quite a few here in the US.
I couldn’t help but wonder if our American beech, hickory’s, etc were invasive to China’s native species. Apparently they have quite a few invasive’s from North...
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