and red asparagus-like shoots,' says Christopher O'Donoghue, one of the co-directors at Gardens Revived. 'Japanese knotweed stems look a lot like bamboo canes,' he explains, pointing out that they ...

Emily Grant is director of Environet Bindweed, dogwood, houttuynia and ivy are most commonly mistaken for Japanese knotweed.

Japanese knotweed has a distinctive shape and colour, with small cream flowers that erupt in the autumn before leaving reddish stems that look very similar to bamboo shoots. Its leaves are shield ...

Harmless garden weeds such as bindweed and ivy are frequently being confused with the highly invasive Japanese knotweed, ...

Research published in New Phytologist provides insights into why the invasive plant Japanese knotweed is so successful at ...

In Minnesota two species of knotweed have been identified: Japanese knotweed (Polygonum ... spread horizontally up to 60 feet and send up new shoots. Knotweed plants can reproduce from fragments ...