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With its ability to grow through asphalt and structural material, survive up to 20 years in total darkness and uproot the foundation of homes, Japanese knotweed (Fallopia japonica) could be the villain in a horror movie.
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Martha Proctor, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
Fish that swallow their prey whole tend to wolf them down headfirst, and for sinuous A. japonica, as the eel’s head and upper body is sliding into a predator’s stomach, its tail will often linger in the esophagus.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
For the japonica, to my taste the washed rice had just a microdose less starch, taking it from already excellent to perfect.
—Julia Moskin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Middlemist's Red (Camellia japonica) No list of beautiful flowers is complete without a mention of the rarest flower on earth.
—Jessica Dukes, House Beautiful, 5 June 2023
For more on pieris, see the following website, Landscape Plants - Pieris japonica.
—oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2022
My kids watch hummingbirds fighting over our other two camellia hedges, fall-blooming Camellia sasanqua ‘Mine-No-Yuki’ by the garage and spring-blooming Camellia japonica ‘Swan Lake’ under the dining room window.
—oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2021
Camellia sasanqua, japonica and hybrids: Petals of these close relatives of the tea plant are edible.
—Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020
The liquid is made from the bud of the lonicera japonica flower, the fruit of forsythia suspensa and scutellaria baicalensis plant.
—Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2020
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Martha Proctor, Mercury News, 1 May 2025
Fish that swallow their prey whole tend to wolf them down headfirst, and for sinuous A. japonica, as the eel’s head and upper body is sliding into a predator’s stomach, its tail will often linger in the esophagus.
—Mindy Weisberger, CNN, 13 Sep. 2024
For the japonica, to my taste the washed rice had just a microdose less starch, taking it from already excellent to perfect.
—Julia Moskin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Middlemist's Red (Camellia japonica) No list of beautiful flowers is complete without a mention of the rarest flower on earth.
—Jessica Dukes, House Beautiful, 5 June 2023
For more on pieris, see the following website, Landscape Plants - Pieris japonica.
—oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2022
My kids watch hummingbirds fighting over our other two camellia hedges, fall-blooming Camellia sasanqua ‘Mine-No-Yuki’ by the garage and spring-blooming Camellia japonica ‘Swan Lake’ under the dining room window.
—oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2021
Camellia sasanqua, japonica and hybrids: Petals of these close relatives of the tea plant are edible.
—Pam Peirce, SFChronicle.com, 7 Feb. 2020
The liquid is made from the bud of the lonicera japonica flower, the fruit of forsythia suspensa and scutellaria baicalensis plant.
—Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2020
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“Japonica.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/japonica. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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