Is this Japenese knotweed?
FickleBobby
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Hi
This plant is growing in some abundance in a neighbours garden and it looks alarmingly like Japanese knotweed. Is someone able to confirm if this is the case.
Many thanks
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FickleBobby
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No, you're safe
H-C
Don't know what it is but it doesn't look like JKW
It's Phytolacca americana - American Pokeweed
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/12895/American-pokeweed/Details
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Seems to be cropping up quite frequently.
H-C
They look quite unobtrusive all summer, then if we get a prolonged warm spell they put on a surge of growth then flower and fruit and put the fear of god into the unwary
Last edited: 12 September 2016 18:38:09
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you all for your excellent and reassuring responses.