Anyone know if this is Japanese Knotweed (picture)

[Twilightpirate]

And if not, what is it? Just found it in front garden. Only this little sprig but with a fleshy root. Leaves look like might be knotweed... But I'm no expert!

[deepdarkwood]

No expert either, but while leaves look a little like, the growing habit looks all wrong to me - too 'spindly' in the main growing stem - more like a climber... Knotweed has quite a bamboo-isn look when young.

[shovetheholly]

No, you will be relieved to hear it is not knotweed. It looks like bindweed to me! Leaves are the wrong shape for knotweed.

[NanTheWiser]

It's not JK, and it's not bindweed either - looks familiar but can't think what!

[bookbook]

looks a bit like convolvulus - do the stems twist around?

[Twilightpirate]

Thanks all! To say I am relieved is an understatement!!

I have chucked in the bin but think he stem was a little bit twisty.... Looked like it might be a climber I suppose.

[Ferguson]

I thought bindweed WAS convolvulus!

[bookbook]

well, it is, the white trumpet flower in hedges.... always called it convolvulus! - the bindweed I have at my allotment is a smaller flower and leaf

[shovetheholly]

I think both are called bindweed, but in Latin, Calystegia sepium versus Convolvulus arvensis?? The latter is the 'bindweed' I have in my allotment, and what I think the plant in the original post might be!

[bookbook]

ah, clever shove :)