What is it?

Of all the things that I have posted on Facebook, this photo has generated the most comments.

It is of the stump that Compa helped me dig up (I started working on it on Wednesday) with shovels, trowel, lopers and pry bar. It looks like a multi-chambered heart.

I have no idea what type of vine came out of it other than one that had huge, huge leaves and would grow so fast that you could see it making gains in a couple of hours. Someone planted it long enough ago that the roots go under the footings of the patio. We'll be battling this hydra for ever. But it won't go up the trellis this summer nor will its tendrils reach over and take over the rose bush or hibiscus I planted last year. Evidently two summers ago when no one lived in the house, the vine climbed up and over the patio roof and managed to get to the second floor window (my study).

No more!!!

I was laughing too much to have the look of: Aha, got you, you sucker!

It now is in a very dark place, the dumpster over at the church. God help whatever landfill it ends up in. I dared not put it in my compost heap lest the thing come back to life and take over the back part of the yard.

Ever onwards.