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Keep the tree or no? Building a house and my construction Company said they would take the tree down and plant a better one
(lemmy.world)
I marked it purple and hope to keep it alive but even my neighbor said its old.
Would you keep it? I am planning to keep it or is it really too old?
Tree of Heaven, they are worse. They grow rapidly, are allelopathic, I have seen them pop up suckers at 200 feet from the main tree, actively shade out any other plants, smell like cat piss, and are nearly impossible to kill. One Tree of Heaven can take over a large area and can come back from the roots for years and this requires you to still kill each one of the 100+ suckers an established tree can have.
And they give you a rash when you touch them. I had some tiny ones pop up in my garden without me noticing, and I'm pretty sure that touching them is what triggered me apparently having eczema.