Table 1 Ploidy levels of F. x bohemica plants established in the wild around the world

From: The Japanese knotweed invasion viewed as a vast unintentional hybridisation experiment

Country

Reference

4x (%)

6x (%)

8x (%)

10x (%)

Sample size

British Isles

Bailey and Wisskirchen, 2006

21

75

4

0

51

Continental Europe (excluding Czech Republic)

Bailey and Wisskirchen, 2006

0

86.4

13.6

0

42

Czech Republic

Mandák et al., 2003

2.1

92.5

5.3

0

94

USA

Bailey, unpublished

0

96.4

0

3.6

28