nefarious spuds

awwwhh!!...
see the cute lil family of spuds to the left. yeah? do ya? well hold on there a minute...

because theyre not so cute, in fact, theyre actually quite menacing.

the school i attend has a nature preserve on its campus with numerous plant life including a number of rare palms. i like walking through the area because its very peaceful.

however, recently, i started noticing a vine growing up several of the trees. every time the vine appeared more and more prominent. its this potato plant thing. a foriegn species not native to the area. it lives by growing up other trees and choking them death, blocking out their sunlight. like hitler and his armies it moves in kills native the residents and sets up camp.

ive seen huge sections of land where this plant has completely overcome all the other plantlife. choking it out. it spreads its infectious self through seed pods which are attractive to the squirrel (who probably thinks its a big-ass walnut or something). theyll pick them up, only to later decide they taste horrible wherein they drop them on the ground, and there, these lil pods, like the borg, begin to take over again (pronounced "uh-gane").

i find this plant quite disgusting and hostile in its behavior. however, from an evolutionary perspective i guess it's ability to suck off of and use others to survive is adaptive, keen, and lovely.

nonetheless (i love that word), i pick them when i see them, but im afraid its a losing battle.