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The ornamental plant that became a global pest
In the 1860s, Thomas Hogg sent Japanese knotweed to his brother’s New York nursery as an ornamental. Within decades, the fast-growing plant had escaped cultivation and become a costly invasive pest, now ranked among the world’s worst.
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