Gundam Chestnut

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• halvar@lemy.lol ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Someone enlighten me pretty please!

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    www.waldwissen.net/en/forestry/…/chestnut-blight

    Chestnut blight is caused by the fungus Cryphonectria parasitica (formerly known as Endothia parasitica). The pathogen originates from East Asia, where it occurs as a weak parasite on the resistant Japanese (Castanea crenata) and Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima). In the early 20th century, the fungus was accidentally introduced into the USA with infected plant material, triggering a dramatic epidemic that almost completely eradicated the extensive forests of American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in the eastern USA.

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    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What does this have to do with gundams though?

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  • Collatz_problem@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This fungus was accidentally brought to America with the Japanese chestnut (which has some resistance) and almost completely ate the American chestnut (which has none).

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• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Not a botanist but as a southerner I’d go to the Centennial Expo and the Chicago World’s fair to try to keep Kudzu out of America. That weed is a fucking problem

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  • OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s crazy to see the places I grew up completely overgrown, the plants and flowers and colors I’d see bloom along the mountains choked by a jungle-green slope of garbage. Hate.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    PNW… Himalayan Blackberry

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  • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How about Spanish Moss?

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    • lauha@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      What about earth worms‽

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• LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Reading about the sheer number of american chestnut trees that used to be on just the east coast is staggering, literally over a billion trees, all producing edible nuts

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• weariedfae@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sorry, nah, I’d be punching Luther Burbank in the dick and setting everything he had on fire.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    you may have explained why our blackberries are so good. we’ve been cloning a california blackberry everywhere we move, and all the nurseries here sell himalayan blackberries. we’ve also got a little patch of wild california blackberries in the hills we’re tending. got the best jam.

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• rbos@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t think it would have been possible to keep it out. :/

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• BastingChemina@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  At the same time, if the time traveler could prevent the American vines to be imported in Europe it would be great !

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