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Japanese knotweed flowers are valued by some beekeepers as an important source of nectar for honeybees, at a time of year when little else is flowering. Japanese knotweed yields a monofloral honey, usually called bamboo honey by northeastern U.S. beekeepers, like a mild-flavored version of buckwheat honey (a related plant also in the Polygonaceae).
Reynoutria is a genus of flowering plants in the Polygonaceae, also known as the knotweed or buckwheat family.The genus is native to eastern China, Eastern Asia and the Russian Far East, although species have been introduced to Europe and North America. [1]
In the UK, the plant was first introduced in 1839, at the same time as giant hogweed and Japanese knotweed. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] These plants were all promoted at the time as having the virtues of "herculean proportions" and "splendid invasiveness" which meant that ordinary people could buy them for the cost of a packet of seeds to rival the expensive ...
May 20—Japanese knotweed is one of the most invasive plant species in the state, as it outcompetes many other native plant species. But it's a delicious edible plant — and foraging for it will ...
Asian knotweed, crimson beauty, donkey rhubarb, fleeceflower, German sausage, Japanese bamboo, Japanese fleece flower, Japanese knotweed, Japanese polygonum, kontiki bamboo, Mexican bamboo, pea-shooter plant, reynoutria fleece flower, sally rhubarb Invasive in Europe, New Zealand, and North America. Native to Japan. Rhinella marina [m] Amphibian
Reynoutria sachalinensis, the giant knotweed or Sakhalin knotweed, (syns. Polygonum sachalinense , Fallopia sachalinensis ) is a species of Fallopia native to northeastern Asia in northern Japan ( Hokkaidō , Honshū ) and the far east of Russia ( Sakhalin and the southern Kurile Islands ).
The Argan goat can scale a tree up to 30 feet tall in order to reach its fruit. The sight of so many goats standing non-nonchalantly in a tree makes it appear as if they are growing from the branches.
Kudzu smothering trees in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Kudzu (/ ˈ k uː d z u, ˈ k ʊ d-, ˈ k ʌ d-/), also called Japanese arrowroot or Chinese arrowroot, [1] [2] is a group of climbing, coiling, and trailing deciduous perennial vines native to much of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and some Pacific islands. [2]