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Japanese Reinutria is a perennial herbaceous Buckwheat plant. However, with buckwheat, which is one of the staple foods in our country, it has little in common. Reinutria is not at all toxic, but it is incredibly dangerous invasive species found in some countries afraid like the plague. Because of this, she is surrounded by a peculiar “mystical” halo and turned into an object of urban legends.
Even in our age of high technology and extremely effective herbicides to fight with this plant is almost impossible, in developed countries (this is something like our malware hogweed). This is what makes Japanese Reinutria so surprising: despite all the efforts of the inhabitants of Europe and Northern America, it still leads there to serious socioeconomic problems. Eyewitnesses claim that this plant it’s simply impossible to destroy or control, and the damage is rural to workers, gardeners and gardeners, it inflicts colossal.
The story of the appearance of the Japanese Reinutria in Europe
The Japanese Reinutria was brought in 1840 by the botanist Philip Franz Von Siebold from the Land of the Rising Sun on Floristic exhibition in the Netherlands Utrecht. Dutch praised plant for beautiful inflorescences and an unusual ornament, and in addition, touted it as an excellent soil holder, livestock feed, Protector from the wind, honey plant and a plant with healing properties. No one I didn’t even suspect then what kind of “monster” scientists brought into Europe.
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In 1850, Von Siebold sent a sprout of Reynutria to London Royal Botanic Gardens, and since then the descendants of this instance flooded almost the entire Misty Albion. In 2010, English biologists conducted a large-scale study and studied samples of the rhine in various parts of the British Isles. It turned out that all of them have identical DNA, that is, it turns out that the British archipelago “conquered” only one sprout of an invasive plant.
Why the “green invader” do not like the British
In the United Kingdom, the Japanese Reinutria is particularly an important issue. Here it can be found in any forests, on the shores. rivers, on roadsides and, of course, in the gardens of citizens. British created an entire industry to combat this plant, however the results of all research, experiments and work on it elimination is not at all impressive. According to experts, a cost-effective way to deal with this “invader” may just don’t exist.
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Since 1990, it has been strictly forbidden in the UK to transport Reynutria in any form. If it grows at least ten meters from your property, banks will refuse to give you loan secured by real estate. And it’s profitable to sell the plot, flooded with a “green invader”, and is completely impossible in this country. Trials flare up among the British when some neighbors accuse others of infecting their sites uncontrolled plant.
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Further – more interesting
There are several cases where a notorious plant broke people’s fates. So, in 2013, a poor married couple from Birmingham committed suicide by leaving a suicide note in which she reported that she despaired in the fight against Reynutria and literally began to go crazy. Husband and wife planned to sell their house and start a new life elsewhere, however the plant literally braided the home and garden of the unfortunate, turning everything into one huge clot greens.
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Many Britons seriously consider reynutria to be damned, but a person collided with her in his own land – punished by higher powers. Local witches use the plant in rites of black magic. IN Herefordshire generally has an urban legend of carnivores varieties of reynutria feeding on rodents, domestic animals and, on occasion, by people, in particular children.
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Why Reinutria does not interfere with the Japanese
Reinutria reproduces asexually and sprouts from roots smaller than the phalanx of the finger. Powerful adult plant roots go deep underground, forming huge plexuses there, which are removed with tremendous difficulty. Spread “invaders” do not stop walls, roads and other obstacles, and it grows so fast that it immediately displaces all other flora and even the fauna, which is why animals, birds and even insects.
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A logical question arises: why is the Reynutria never was causing trouble to anyone in your own country? The answer is simple: in Of Japan, Aphalara itadori exclusively by this plant and with ease controlling it Spread. Of course, these insects tried to introduce to other countries with Reynutria, in the same foggy Albion, however, Japanese herbal fleas, alas, do not take root for beyond its natural habitat. Like this paradox…
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