Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In the UK, Japanese knotweed is a single female clone. However, it is able to readily hybridise with related species. [38] In the UK, Japanese knotweed is established in the wild in many parts of the country and creates problems due to the impact on biodiversity, flooding management and damage to property.
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]
Her distribution maps showed how the Knotweed hybrids spread across the UK. [6] An unusual hybrid knotweed, Conolly's knotweed, ×Reyllopia conollyana (syn. Fallopia × conollyana) was named in her honour in 2001 for her 84th birthday. [7] This is a hybrid between Japanese knotweed and Russian vine (Fallopia baldschuanica). [8]
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 ).
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 ...
Persicaria capitata, the pink-headed persicaria, [2] pinkhead smartweed, [3] pink knotweed, Japanese knotweed, or pink bubble persicaria, is an Asian species of plants in the genus Persicaria within the Polygonaceae (US: buckwheat) family.
Knotweed is a common name for plants in several genera in the family Polygonaceae. Knotweed may refer to: Fallopia; Persicaria; Polygonum; Reynoutria. Reynoutria japonica or Japanese knotweed, a highly invasive species in Europe and North America
Fagus japonica, the Japanese blue beech, a deciduous tree species native to Japan; Fallopia japonica, the Japanese knotweed, a large herbaceous perennial plant species native to Japan, China and Korea; Fatsia japonica, the fatsi or Japanese aralia, a plant species native to southern Japan