"RG" wrote in message
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Usual over-the-top Daily Mail reporting, but the pictures
are interesting...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-knotweed.html

Here's another site or two:

http://www.wisebread.com/free-food-i...d-edible-weeds
http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Pla.../Knotweed.html

Japanese knotweed is apparently quite edible and if people
wanted to eat it I'm sure it would go extinct in about 100
years (as everything does, when people want to eat it.)
Googling Japanese knotweed turns up a load of sites about
how to use this vegetable.

someone