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Japanese Knotweed?

MutchMutch Posts: 6
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imageHi can anyone tell me if this is Japanese Knotweed? 

Thanks

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    JKW ... No

    may be enchanters nightshade. If you fork it up, does it have thick white brittle  roots a few inches long?

    How tall is it? do you have a sideways view?

  • MutchMutch Posts: 6

    Hi Fidgetbones,

    I shall have a look tomorrow and also take pictures. I remember when I first saw it last year it had pink flowers, you can just see them coming through on the pic. I wasn't sure myself as the leaves are a similar shape to pics I have googled. Fingers crossed it isn't.

    thanks for your reply ?

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    No it isn't. Sleep easyimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • MutchMutch Posts: 6

    Thanks B3, might try and get rid in any case. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    My enchanters nightshade has white flowers

    definitely not JKW



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    This might be some sort of persicaria



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618

    My enchanters nightshade has white flowers too.

  • MutchMutch Posts: 6

    Nutcutlet, you may be right, just googled and looks like this one from memory, leaves are very similar also. Many thanks, my mind is no longer racing with how to sort JKW out. ?

    image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    that's good Mutch, you can sleep tonight now



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Lou12Lou12 Posts: 1,149

    We have Japanese Knotweed here near where we are in Tidemills East Sussex. There are warning signs down there. I keep looking, havn't found any yet.

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