Japanese knotweed
Americannoun
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And what’s Japanese knotweed, and why is it destroying Elizabeth’s house?
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2024
KINGSTON, Mass. — Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, dense vegetation down to size.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 24, 2022
The financial effect of invasive species - everything from cane toads, to lionfish, brown snakes, fruit flies, zebra muscles, and Japanese knotweed - is even higher.
From BBC ● May 22, 2022
Japanese knotweed is so invasive, it's heavily sprayed with herbicides, but if you find an area that definitely hasn't been sprayed, dig in; Nelson says it's delicious.
From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2021
Laboratory tests suggest that the leaf fleas – Japanese knotweed psyllids, or Aphalara itadori – can kill young shoots and potentially stop the plant growing by sucking up its sap.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2020
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