Please Warn Your Kids, Grandkids And Kids That Live Near You About This Dangerous Plant

[Quangoid]

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/health/britains-most-dangerous-plant-hogweed-152173

I thought deadly nightshade was more dangerous?

[agchristie]

Nasty!

I did think Sellafield may have been the most dangerous plant but there you go ;-)

[Quangoid]

So true agchristie

[scooping]

Looks absolutely dreadful. But don't understand why only now is it a threat to health. Has it only just been imported or has it only recently arrived? We've had 'heat-waves' before.

[Mamyalynne]

It has been a growing nuisance it was introduced as an ornamental plant in the 19Th Century - horrible thing.

[Mamyalynne]

^ since it was introduced.


There are warnings about it almost every year.

[Eleena]

Thanks for the link Quangoid.

[scooping]

Not aware of this before and it looks awful.

[Quangoid]

The wounds it leaves are reminiscent of "Triffid" wounds.

[Peter Pedant]

scooping
no it was a problem around twenty years ago
import of course

there are a few contact poison - I think lime peel is -
juice contacts the skin and then you go out into the sun ( in that order)- a few cucurbitae do it I think
having had it it is pretty unpleasant - the blisters last about a week

You used to be able to ring up the council and they would deal with it but since everyone is going like " oo giant triffids- never seen that before" presumably all that has stopped

[cassa333]

Isn't it supposed to make cows and livestock I'll as well. If I remember rightly farmers arensupposed to get rid of it !

[jourdain2]

I disagree. Wolfsbane/Monkshood is far more dangerous. Just handling its leaves can kill. Aconite poisoning. Haven't read any other posts, but I'll take some dissuading. Every part of this plant is a killer.

[jourdain2]

^^ Several plants such as ragwort are notifiable because of the danger they cause to livestock.

[hereIam]

This grows in profusion along the riverbank bank where I live !

[pixie374]

I've never heard of it- thank you xx jourdain, is ragwort actually notifiable? I know we remove it from horses' fields, but I never knew it was notifiable.

[pixie374]

It isn't...

"Ragwort the Notifiable weed falsehood. The claim that ragwort is a "notifiable weed" is a very common one. It occurs on over 20 local government websites in the UK. and is repeated frequently as a result. There is no such thing as a notifiable weed in UK law."

[DTCwordfan]

loads of it being strimmed down here.....got to take care that it doesn't touch you.

[jourdain2]

Thank you, Pixie:)

[Eleena]

First case I've read about in Thursdays Manchester Evening news http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/giant-hogweed-bury-warning-burns-13318812Quangoid ..

[Eleena]

... http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/giant-hogweed-bury-warning-burns-13318812