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Please identify! Japanese knotweed....?

springvale420springvale420 Posts: 2
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Hi, we just moved into a new house. We have lots of weeds, which is fine but this plant is concerning me. I have pulled some of it up, but it has so many roots, like bindweed would 🙄 Please help!

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  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited May 2019
    It's Houttuynia. Not Japanese knotweed. It can be quite invasive - having seen my Dad's one run rampant I would not grow it myself - but it's still a popular garden plant and not the dreaded JK.

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I don't think so.
    It does look like houttuynia (the Chameleon plant)

    Billericay - Essex

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  • springvale420springvale420 Posts: 2
    You have made my day, thanks so so much to you knowledgeable people!!
  • Chrissy the gardenerChrissy the gardener Posts: 1,072
    Houtuynia I believe is in the same family as Japanese knot weed but not reported to be so horrific.

  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I used to have a patch of it a few years ago but it vanished.
    As I recall, the leaves smell of tangerines.

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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