The bittersweet vine is taking over.

He once mailed Mr. Metzler a foot-long piece of an Oriental bittersweet vine that had grown to several inches in diameter.

It's hard to imagine, but that whole field was full of vines, bittersweet and bayberry vines, hanging from every single tree.

Oriental bittersweet vines are hardy, long-lived, long (up to about 40 feet) and seldom bothered by pests or disease.

Hoisting a chunk of bittersweet vine that his teenage son had previously cut down, Mr. Drew exuded the pride of a big-game hunter.

I see the bittersweet vine wrapping itself tightly around the fencepost, binding our two yards together with nature's twine.

I whined about the dirtiest jobs: removing the miles of tough bittersweet vine and the barbed goat fencing.

Imagine bittersweet vines with orange berries and new green leaves in mid-October.

Theirs is a stately procession, churning up eddies of oak leaves, pecking idly at fungus-ruffled stumps and red-berried bittersweet vines.

A tangle of invasive Oriental bittersweet vines can turn, in Laura Spector's hands, into a charmingly rustic bench, chair or arbor.