Thanks for offering some ways to get rid of them!

@@gordogunso Lolz. Good luck with the will of nature.

Madagascar's forests are vanishing, being cut for firewood. Maybe thiss should be introduced.

To add, the leaves are used to feed pigs

In my place, those are so useful now a days that those are hard to find, most of the time those plant grow on private property.

We call them "petai belalang" here . We actually ate the seed and pods of these planst.

We also make charcoals out of ipil-ipil.

Sila yong "invasive'' hindi yong ipil ipil😅

​@@rosalynepallay5906😂

You saying Hawaii needs goats? 🤔

There are other nitrogen-fixers, but this species is just incredibly aggressive and can get quickly out-of-control outcompeting native species.

@@flipsolo True, you should regularly take care of this plant. I maintain by necessity (I am not the landowner) about 200 of this species, but realize that there are much more aggressive plants (eg Rubus sect. Rubus or Poaceae) than this.

Yeah but unfortunately Hawaiis got other plants that aren’t found anywhere else and they have to compete with these plants.

@@jnak974From what I saw in the video, no one seems to have taken care of the plants for decades. Leucaena jungles do not develop overnight.

@@redpill7452 No, it only needed a few years for these plants to grow to that extents.

I watched the bamboo removal video too

Make salsa with them in southern part of México 🇲🇽 🧐

Dry the bean and crush it into flour to make Hawaii taco shells? Invasive means these people lack imagination and are not being inclusive (they're undercover racists).

in Hawaii, people call them invasive.

My dad eats them with salsa n beans too. Hed be in the backyard just picking as they grow wild here in Texas. But they are invasive though at some point we chop em down n use weed killer.

Yes, all these years I did not know they were edible 🤯, until a friend from South America came to visit us here in Kailua, Hawaii (it’s everywhere here). He had me taste it.. it was really good, like a garlicky bean when eaten raw. It is now on my “emergency food for scavenging list” incase of famine or when the SHTF😌. If you can recommend a recipe I should try, I would be grateful 🙏🏼. I’d love to harvest some and make a meal out of them 🥰🙏🏼🥰.

esp the chinese, kicking the japs out

I follow a Hawaiian surfer named Koa Rothman and I thought it was somehow about him at first.

That is the true invasion!

Funny

Frickin howlies

That's not the modern Hawaiian Way, which is to whine about everything and blame America for all their problems while demanding funding.

Agreed

And grain...

Ya. Well. We're not dealing with the Glee Club from Harvard.

@@DaveScarcella Are Glee Clubs invasive and can you eat them?

My mum is thai, thai folks eat these when they are young an soft, but yes you can eat the seeds as well when i use to go visit, the kids an ranging from adults snack on these, one thing for sure man, it sure did make you pass gas 💨…. Lol, everyone their says it has high nutrients..

Yap seeds are edible and are excellent fire wood too.

We ate this “huaje” in Mexico is very delicious if you put the green seeds in salsa .. is a great food 😢

@@AutanCalifornia- will have to try!

And what is an Asian vegetable. Looks you have a perennial that gives you veggies year after year. Learn how to use them.

What is the recipe?

ah thats cool

@@Critique808 chewing

We use seed as anthelmintic. They get rid of worms. It's a very useful tree if you know what it's uses are.

That tress are very common to grow every where here in my hometown

My classmates in elementary days said the same thing, I thought they were saying BS while we're eating the seeds. We also tried eating the leaves but its very sour. 🤣😂

Man the truth is the truth.

Not to mention the young shoots are perfectly good with raw oysters!

Chewing tobacco does that too anthelmintic purpose too.

I was thinking the same

They may be remotely related, but it's not the same species. I've worked with both

Go start plucking them from the roots

How did they get there in the first place? And is the tram still running through there?

Those trees are like weeds....

It was a problem when I was a kid in the 70s.

Right!

​@alex carter It was in the back of Waipahu Intermediate School when I went there. Then when I went to Waipahu High, it was all over in the back. Moving on to Leeward CC, it's all over the back.

Its usefulness to humans is irrelevant to the fact that it's a super aggressive invasive species, which was the whole point of the video.

We remove them from our pastures as the seeds will cause the horse’s hair especially their tails and mane to fall out. They then take a beating from the fly’s as they are unable to flick their tails. Cattle suffer to an extent as well but not as much. I’ve seen people use them as fence posts but they frequently sprout and are not very sturdy requiring them to be replaced fairly regularly. They are a nuisance and while it’s a pain to get rid of them it’s not impossible. Most of the land is workable with machines that could clear the invasive species relatively easily. There are areas that is more difficult to access but ropes and chainsaws still make it doable. It’s all about the will to do it.

He took the rail

😂😂😂

Apparently in Mexico they eat the seeds too.

Crime pays but botany doesn't has some good videos on plants where he describes the similarities of plants on different landmasses and their taxonomy which is surprisingly the same or very close (same family and genus, but usually a slightly different species due to the location)

Sup Hawaiian

Wtf is the usvi?

I'm guessing United States Virgin Islands

@@janeblogs324 US Virgin Islands

@@cruzanmongoose is that like the Russian Ukraine?

Very few trees were in Hawaii before people got here. Even the state tree, Kukui, was brought to Hawaii by people. There was only one land mammal. Later people brought many destructive animals such as pigs and cats. These are responsible for spreading invasive species and spreading harmful diseases.

because it has spread unabated like cats and chickens

They're invasive because they're not native to Hawaii and is threatening the local species.

​@@remliqa Are the Hawaiians not eating them?

@@kotk05 Trust me as I person who regulars eats their seeds. These guys produce far more seed than what humans can eat. That is if the Hawaiians actually eat them at the rate South Americans and South East Asians did.

Mimosa is the sensitive plant here in the US, touch the leaves and they fold inward, different plant than this one, they both have p i n n a t e leaves but that's about it

bring some goats

If you're trying to save the ecosystem from the ecosystem, good luck with that.

@@nomdeguerre7265 Invasive species create an ecosystem in which only a few or one plant species can survive, and where all the native specialist animals and bugs cannot survive. It is an ecosystem because they rely on each other. Many plants are the sole host plant for their native bug counterparts. The bug CAN NOT complete it's life cycle without it. When you introduce a plant that is extremely aggressive, to the point that it outcompetes and totally overtakes NATIVE plants, then you lose both native local plants AND the animals that rely on them. Plus, the threat of losing these native ecosystems to a totally different ecosystem is horrible, because then you lose the whole suite of special ecosystem services that a intact ecosystem serves, where a monoculture can NOT do it all. Plus, it is sad to lose the native plants that used to be here because of a singular exotic plant that is able to outcompete. There is more to it in invasion ecology, and it isn't always so cut and dry I admit. But the ecosystem that invasive plants create is NOT a good thing!

@@micah_lee For a while perhaps. In general it's up to the ecosystem to deal with the issue, which it will in time, because attempts at control usually just make the problem worse. Recent history is replete with exactly this kind of scenario. Isolated or very limited ecosystems can sometimes, sometimes, be protected, but it's rare and limited to special cases. Life is invasive, and it's nothing new, just accelerated by a species that moves a lot of stuff around, a lot.

That’s a good idea

Yes but fireplaces are very uncommon in Hawaii. As far as starting a paper mill, it would never fly. Getting a harvesting permit would be extremely burdensome. There are a few timber harvesting permits available on Hawaii Island but there has been a lot of conflict around them in the past. The labor costs, fuel costs, and shipping costs would be prohibitively expensive. The only chance of using the pulp would be for hippies selling home made products at craft fairs.