Last fall, I stumbled across an interesting-looking, curiously named plant while wandering through Ken Matthews Landscape Nursery in York County. Always searching for the different and unusual, I took ...

A root extract of the Fallopia multiflora, or Chinese knotweed, has special properties: it enables the nematode C. elegans to live longer and protects it from oxidative stress, according to a new ...

You might look at Japanese knotweed Fallopia japonica and say it's quite an attractive plant with gorgeous big leaves and white flowers, but it's one of Britain's most pernicious weeds. It comes from ...