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Make no mistake, cow parsnip [Heracleum sphondylium] will cause serious skin blistering and long term scarring particularly if you are cutting them when close to flowering and in sunlight. I still bear the scars some 15 years later.
From reading and illustrations elsewhere, I thought the two were the same plant with multiple names. We have what's most likely cow parsnip growing in the forest near me, and when the saw the photos of hogweed effects on flesh, I was horrified. Thank you for putting my mind at rest.
A much better way to help IDENTIFY °GIANT HOGWEED° would be to PROVIDE BETTER °CLOSE-UP° Photo Comparisons between Any / ALL Other Similar looking Plants ▪︎ LEAVES, Sizes, Shapes other descriptive Differences ▪︎ in LARDER, MORE DISTINCT DETAILS ! ONE way to REDUCE / LIMIT Spread of Giant HOGWEED ▪︎▪︎ Is REMOVE Flowerheads BEFORE They've got chance to Form SEEDS ! LESS SEED = LESS Seedlings = LESS chance of SPREADING Anywhere & / or EVERYWHERE !
Can i just say it probably isnt a good idea to be near a patch of giant hogweed when its very windy like this, the hairs on the stem are urticating and can cause a nasty reaction.
Science, Japanese knotweed is the most concentrated source of resveratol we've ever found. East Asians, it's a perennial vegetable and good medicine. Westerners, it's evil the only good knotweed is dead knotweed (mindless shrieking). If only there was some way we could learn from other cultures.
Science, Japanese knotweed is the most concentrated source of resveratol we've ever found! East Asians, it's a perennial vegetable and good medicine. Westerners, it's evil the only good knotweed is dead knotweed (mindless shrieking). If only there was some way we could learn from other cultures.
Very insightful. Glad myself mostly stick on trails, most be Lucky those years in my younger days letting a part Beagle leed me through the forest- no sever outcomes arrived because of that. That dog lived to the age of 15 and a half, he seemed to enjoy The Boreal Forest as much as myself.
So the leaves are different and the plant is only 1/2 the size but on the other hand both are bad.....we're screwed, plants are fighting back. Poison ivy and nettles run rampant in my neck of the woods, oh and some kind of bullet proof ivy laying all over the place to trip you up every time your not paying attention, so basically it's impossible to trail blaze around here without a bush wacker in front of you. Now I got to start keeping an eye out for these puppies too.
In Alaska cow parsnip grows well above a meter, and my family has found that you’ll only get bad blisters from it if you have fair skin, and we wash the effects aria with windex and COLD water
OMG, America is infested with "Up Talkers" using the inflection of a question at the end of every sentence. It is so contagious, and because our education system is so fraught with Liberals, bending over backwards to please and not offend every single person that walks across the Border- that our children AND young adults do it, just as with an influx of certain Europeans, who over emphasize the suffix "ing" is very catchy to young minds- who are taught to never correct a mistake, that everyone "has their own way of doing things". 🤢🤮
There are lots of plants that get that flower. Queen Anne’s Lace is the garden variety, still invasive but no burning. The flowers are the same except the Lace has a tiny purplish bit in the very center, so one tiny purple flower in the center of the flower.
Whoa, up to ten years?? (grabs the flamethrower) That means if you touched that plant and got one of those reactions, you may only be getting over it now as of this comment.
