Invasive plants can be a real headache for any homeowner to deal with — and doubly so when the main plant belongs to your neighbor and insists on spreading everywhere. That’s exactly the situation one Michigan homeowner found themselves in, and ended up posting to the r/invasivespecies subreddit to complain about it.
“My neighbor’s out of control oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus) in Michigan,” the poster wrote. “I’ve been pulling out the saplings that end up in my yard. My eyes can spot this s*** anywhere now. I was in the middle of a trail run and spotted some on the ground and pulled it out. It might be my worst enemy.”
Round-leaved bittersweet, commonly referred to as Oriental bittersweet, is a type of vine native to Eastern Asia that was intentionally introduced to North America as an ornamental sometime around 1860.
Outside of its native environment, the plant is known to wrap itself around trees and other plants, smothering them and even uprooting them with its weight…