Can you post a pic?

Tropicalfreak

Possibly Saw Briar/smilax bona-nox. Google it. I have this in my garden sometimes. make sure to dig up the entire root or it will grow right back. Oh and wear gloves!

Vines? lets see.......
Sauvine, muscadine, kudzu, trumpet vine...

the smilax ID is most likely, a real pain.

Alan

I've never seen a Smilax with "soft" thorns...in my experience, they are really sharp and painful! ACK!! Hope that's not what you've got, blueviolet. They are hard to get rid of. On the plus side, the tender new shoots are edible. Lots of people think they taste like asparagus when steamed. Personally, I think they taste like weeds.

Marcia

I didn't know they were 'edible'.
They really are a pain to get rid of.
I've been digging the fat roots out and pulling the long runners out of my side yard for months.
I've also been pulling the wild grapevine and escaped pagoda flowers there.
No tilling necessary after ripping out all the long runners.
Been replanting a woodsy garden there under the high shade of a big old pine.
Still finding the old plants popping up here and there. But I'm making progress.
May have to resort to Round Up if we get some rain.

Good luck, Tree! It really IS the DEVIL to get rid of!

I learned about smilax from Aubudon...we used to have a guy visit who would bring all sorts of wild edibles in for everyone to taste. He (and some others I know who were really into nature in a big way) steams the tender tips of smilax and serves 'em up with a bit of butter. I wasn't particularly impressed, but then again, I don't much care for asparagus, either, which is what they kept saying it tasted like.

One thing I learned to LOVE from those programs is society garlic. You can snip it up and use it like chives. It tastes like a cross between chives and garlic, and is really good stirred into butter to use as a spread.

Marcia