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JAPANESE KNOTWEED (Fallopia japonica) Indigenous to Japan, knotweed was originally shipped westward by the German botanist Philipp von Siebold. When Siebold sent a variety of plant specimens to the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew in August 1850, including Japanese Knotweed,…