Mother Vine Is Poisoned

The Mother Vine is a centuries-old Muscadine grape vine planted by Native Americans on Roanoke Island, in North Carolina's Albemarle Sound.

When Sir Walter Raleigh founded what became the Lost Colony, the Mother Vine was there. The huge grapevine is the foundation vine of North Carolina's wine industry.

Now a careless contractor for the area power company has sprayed the Mother Vine with herbicide.

The vine will live, but will have to suffer several years of poor growth.

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The Mother Vine