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Southern CA Zone 9. Planted this vine 20+ yrs ago. It grew and lightly covered a UGLY wood fence and made a lovely back drop of green beh...Read More
I made the mistake of propagating this cats claw about 5 or 6 years ago. I saw a vine growing in my old childhood neighborhood on a house...Read More
A tropical liana that can quickly transform ecosystems. Climbs into the tops of trees and kills them with its shade and weight. Spreads q...Read More
I live in New Orleans where I've been battling cat's paw in my garden for 25 years. I cut it, spray it, pull it up, dig up tubers the siz...Read More
This sounds ideal for growing in my 3ft high Ali-Baba pot on my roof-terrace in Egypt. I've been looking for a climber that will survive...Read More
Awesome plant, very beautiful with flowers at Easter. Grows well where other plants die.
PLEASE do not plant this vine if you live here in Florida! It is the most invasive killer I've ever seen. This vine will kill every plan...Read More
Of course if you want some kind of gardening experience that requires no effort, cat claw will be a problem. The posters seemed like they...Read More
Horrible, horrible, horrible invasive plant. It will smother almost anything and made holes in my roof by rooting through the shingles. ...Read More
i'm trying to dig this horrible plant up and I'm wondering what the seeds look like. Also do you have to dig up all the tubers for it to die ?
This plant is like many others, it has it good attributes and
bad ones. If you don't let it spread into plants that you
d...Read More
Has anyone found a way to clean a stucco wall after removing Cat's Claw.
This WEED is my living nightmare! I could quit work and try to remove this full time and still not get it done. I hav pulled out MASSIVE ...Read More
Living in Tucson, AZ, I was happy to find a plant that is sooo green in the brown desert and that withstands our terrific heat, especial...Read More
Noxious, invasive, foreign weed. Roots as it crawls along the ground and makes tubers that are difficult to remove. Swamps small trees ...Read More
Thank-you, Thank-you, THANK-YOU...for all the information on Cats Claw Vine. I live in Ct. and seen this vine growing in the wild and as...Read More
This plant grows wild in Eastern NC. It is extremely difficult to get rid of and will destroy a garden by smothering everything else. I...Read More
This is probably the finest climbing vine for covering a cinderblock wall. We have a lot of these barriers in Arizona and the Cat's Claw ...Read More
Can anybody provide me with some NAPALM? Seriously this is not a friendly vine. It is all over EVERY blighted home in New Orleans, not ev...Read More
This KILLER HIGHLY INVASIVE vine has almost destroyed my parents 70 year old heirloom garden in north Florida ! It smothered 60 year old ...Read More
Have grown this plant on a south facing wall in Carefree, AZ for 30 years. It is easy to control by withholding irrigation. Pulls easily ...Read More
Cat's Claw Macfadyena unguis-cati is Naturalized in Texas and other States and is considered an invasive plant in Texas.
I just bought a slightly rundown house in an old neighborhood in Houston. I saw that this vine had made its home in my yard, but I was u...Read More
Cat's Claw Vine or Yellow Trumpet Vine (Macfadyena unguis-cati) is one of the most invasive vines in many parts of the southern United St...Read More
In New Orleans this is not only invasive in the garden but it will grow into your walls. I have pulled twenty feet of it, white from lack...Read More
Wish I could type NEGATIVE in all caps for everyone to see this extremely horrible plant. It is a Category I Exotic Pest Plant in Florida.
During a Florida internship, one of the worst jobs I was given was to help eradicate this vine. A huge area needed to be removed in orde...Read More
I now live in north central Florida. Although I was able to identify this vine when I got here, I didn't find out that it was invasive. ...Read More
My grandfather had this growing on the south side of his stucco house in Delano, California (Zone 9) from the 1940's until he died in 197...Read More
Cats Claw Vine is an aggressive tropical vine that climbs up trees and other surfaces with cat like claws in order to reach for more sunl...Read More
This plant is VERY INVASIVE. I have seen it actually lift the shingles off of roofs. It also attaches itself with the "claw" to stucco ...Read More
I'd strongly advise against using this plant in areas that don't have regular, hard freezes. It can quickly cover trees and buildings an...Read More
According to the guild from where I bought this plant, it says exposure is full sun to partial shade; spacing varies. Average height and...Read More
Plant anytime. Cutting the plant to the ground after planting is the only way to try to make it attach faster. Trim down hard after bloom...Read More