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Japanese Knotweed |
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Reynoutria japonica |
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Carl Farmer |
Common close to villages, hotels, large gardens, etc, invades shrubberies and waste ground. Not native. Plant c 2-3 m tall, forming dense thickets Skye ID: If looks like pic on left then is it. Other features: Long spikes of small white flowers very numerous along the branches. Red zigzag stems. Leaves cut off square at broad base, continuing broad for most of their length and then curving in to pointed tip. |
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Carl Farmer |
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| The last of the flowers falling from the spikes | ||
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