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Spuds Moyogi
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For you all out there looking at wisteria and what to collect. If you live in an area where this species has become naturalized, this is the kind of trunk you can find that makes getting a wisteria worthwhile. I ran across this one a couple of years ago in a tangle of grape/bittersweet/boxwood/undergrowth in the woods near me. It's a decedent of an old wisteria planted nearby a very long time ago. It's "parent" plant is long dead, but there are literally hundreds of vines overtaking the surrounding woodland. This one has been smashed and eaten by the deer that bed down under it over the years.

Although the trunk that rises from the ground is terrific and about as thick as a forearm, collecting it is going to take some time. I didn't get a photo of the five feet of trunk that's connected to it running along the ground. It's going to have to be ground layered. I plan on starting that next June. I'm going to have to soak myself in DEET to ward off the swarms of deer ticks where it grows.

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