Skye Flora

Japanese Knotweed


Reynoutria japonica

 

Reynoutria japonica

Photo © Carl Farmer
8 Sep 2002 Portree

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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  Reynoutria japonica

Photo © Carl Farmer
30 Sep 2001 Portree
 

 
  The last of the flowers falling from the spikes  
     
     
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