Also called Asian bittersweet, Asiatic bittersweet, 🇨🇳 Chinese bittersweet and round-leaved bittersweet. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 In North America, being rebranded with the more-culturally-sensitive name invasive bittersweet.
An acquaintance
calls it strangler vine.
Part of
bittersweet or staff vine family Celastraceae.
Native to eastern Asia.
🗺 Map by county (🇺🇸 USA-48)
(color key).
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Invasive > 🇺🇸 USA
Invasive > Michigan
Inv. trading card 
Nice drawing. (page 38)
Uses by native peoples
(Ethnobotany database)
On No-Planting List by Seneca Nation of Indians SNI. (pages 58 and 60)
This species is the 🎯︎ primary target being controlled by ⚶🐐︎
prescribed browsing
using
🐐︎ domestic goats Capra aegagrus hircus
(goatscaping), described in The Environment Report article
New weapon to fight invasive plants in Michigan? Goats,
or its
🔊︎ audio
, and the Great Lakes Now article
Hero Goats: Ottawa Parks in Michigan hires goat herd to fight invasive species
and its video ↖ above or to left.
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🇺🇸 In the USA, the
USDA suggests
those seeking wreaths or 🍒︎ showy fruit replace this plant with
native alternatives
American bittersweet Celastrus scandens
or
Virginia rose Rosa virginiana.
[1]
Native alternatives (Great Lakes green entries). (page 3)
More native alternatives (Missouri Botanical Garden).