Clarification: Plant Invaders story
By APTuesday, April 6, 2010
Clarification: Plant Invaders story
NEW YORK — In a story April 2, The Associated Press reported that the Oriental bittersweet vine was still found mostly in East Asia when the New York Botanical Garden planted its first specimen in 1897. The story should have made clear that scientists believe the vine was first introduced to North America in the 1860s and that the Botanical Garden was not the first place to plant it in the U.S.
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