Taken in Oban this afternoon.
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That would be the kind of pictures I saw. Yep!
It’s a monster “plant”!
Yes, what I read and saw about it is certainly a monster plant. Unfortunately it takes so long to get these things under control.
Hmm, yes, at first pass the flowers do look very much like it.
Wikipedia has quite a lot to say about the stuff, but I note particularly this paragraph:
In the UK, it is an offence under section 14(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside act 1981 to “plant or otherwise cause to grow in the wild” any plant listed in Schedule nine, Part II to the Act, which includes Japanese knotweed. Over £150m is spent annually on Japanese knotweed control, and a decision was taken on 9 March 2010 to release into the wild a Japanese psyllid insect, Aphalara itadori. Its diet is highly specific to Japanese knotweed and shows good potential for its control
So it sounds like they’ve gone ahead with the bug from your video.