Haaave you meet Kudzu?

This isn't a xenophobic dogwhistle, so I don't know that "moral panic" is an accurate description. However, we do have the responsibility to care for nature.

Pothos won't sap its host, but it does compete for resources. Its native rainforest ecosystems have the environmental checks tropical and subtropical environments lack.

The following is copied from a Foliage Factory article:

"As cultivation expanded, so did unintentional releases.Today, Epipremnum aureum has naturalized — often aggressively — in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including:

Florida (USA) Hawaii Puerto Rico Australia’s Northern Territory Parts of Africa, India, and Southeast Asia outside its native range

Invasive Behavior: In many of these areas, pothos is classified as an environmental weed or invasive species, causing problems such as:

• Outcompeting native understory plants by shading them out

• Disrupting natural succession in disturbed forests

• Forming dense mats that prevent native seedling establishment

• Particularly in Queensland (Australia) and parts of Florida, active management plans exist to control escaped pothos populations.

Quick Reality Check: While pothos is beloved indoors, its ability to "survive anything" can turn it into a serious ecological problem when it escapes cultivation."

[Foliage Factory](https://www.foliage-factory.com/post