1. The problem it was originally supposed to fix. "Growth of introduced kudzu in Tennessee." The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. 4th ed. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Discover Collection. Web. 17 Apr. 2013.

2.  Kudzu was originally brought to America from Japan to prevent soil erosion  Kudzu absorbs the nitrogen in the soil and causes it to grow rapidly.

3.  Kudzu is a plant that is native to Japan  Kudzu was both a pretty decoration and a cheap forage crop in the South.  The large amount of sunlight and humidity helped it spread incredibly fast.  In America, the plant has no predators so it was able to keep growing.  The genus species name for Kudzu is: ◦ Pueraria thunbergiana  It is in the legume family  It was originally developed to prevent soil erosion but people also thought it could be used as a form of hay and this provided jobs such as hay bailing, transporting the hay etc.

4.  It was originally from Japan but shown to the people of Japan at the Philadelphia Exposition in 1876

5.  It was a purple plant that's aroma was similar to a grape  Kudzu is full of chemicals, and the most amazing use of this vine may be as a medicine. In Asian countries, kudzu has been used as a treatment for alcoholism and many other diseases as a home remedy.

6.  Right now careful studies are being made about the possibility of using biological controls. A biological control is a natural enemy, such as a predator, parasite, or disease, introduced to slow down an exotic species.