Solved Help - Japanese knotweed

Dear all, this is a boring question, but its a question that is consuming me, as such your help is appreciated.

Is this Japanese knotweed?

 

No.

 

I say no too
although I couldn't tell you what it actually is ...

 

Mock orange?

 

Welcome to the forums Bruno
Definitely not Japanese knotweed.

Your plant is a shrub....In winter it will lose all the leaves but the branches will remain.
While Japanese knotweed vanishes completely in winter to regrow the following spring.

Leaves not right for Philadelphus...common name Mock orange.
See pic below from different ones.
Still thinking...
Maybe a shrubby Lonicera common name Honeysuckle...not sure.

 

I agree, not Japanese Knotweed which has a slight zig-zag in the stems.

 

True.
A few pics to show stems like bamboo, leaves...zig zag stem.

 

Viburnum perhaps? Or perhaps Weigela. At any rate the chances are its a nice shrub. You will have to wait for it to flower. Looks like it has been cut back and regrown so may take a year to flower if you are unlucky.

 

Thanks everyone for your helpful feedback and for putting my mind at ease!