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secreted perhaps in the droppings of a wintering phoebe. Came Spring and the seed wrapped in that beautiful fruit, germinated, and grew into a vine whose virulence was masked by its apparent fragility.
Bruce first noticed it seven years ago. A twenty foot, slender annual that found its way to Pennsylvania from Japan sixty years back, and has since spread through Maryland, the District of Columbia, and into our backyards.
By the time that Bruce had identified it as piile-a-minute (Polygonum perfoliatum), it had already gained a tenacious foothold and had started to choke and obliterate the native species that he and Susan had worked so hard to"encourage.
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