W A R N I N G Beware Hogweed . . . .

[Canary42]

. . . Britain's most dangerous plant. It can scare you for life.

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/giant-hogweed-identify-poisonous-plant-082810910.html

[drmorgans]

Isn't there a song by Genesis about the Giant Hogweed:

"Long ago in the Russian hills
A Victorian explorer found
The regal Hogweed by a marsh
He captured it and brought it home"

[Old_Geezer]

Being scared for life sounds horrific. Authorities ought to be rooting out all reported such plants.

[THECORBYLOON]

I mind on reading about it a good few year ago and wee ones using the stems as blowpipes.

[lankeela]

There's not much scares me let alone for life.

[Togo]

Lol^^ Beat me to it Lank. :))

[Tilly2]

Seriously, Hogweed is a nasty plant.

[ynnafymmi]

Not really a scarey plant,canary.But can be a poisonous plant if you rub against it.Slowly being eradicated around the burns and rivers up here in Scotland thankfully.

[Peter Pedant]

looks like giant Parsley ( presumably one of the embelliferae - mods reach for their delete buttons)

Dont touch !

sap causes blistering - and scarring
Last time I wrote about this I mentioned phyto-photo-dermatitis which a mod thought was a dirty sex practice. So I wont.....o

[ynnafymmi]

@18.49.Aye like me and my friends did when we played on the banks of the Deveron up here in Scotland,using roddenberries as ammunition.Blisters roon oor moos for weeks.Bleurgh.

[Peter Pedant]

each parish used to have a hogweed-kill-squad
but presumably they have gone in the visious tory cuts

[Peter Pedant]

aye the scorts kids
ye kinna keep em off the rail tracks

[rowanwitch]

It's nasty stuff, there were some along the canal bank in the South of birmingham, quickly reported and removed . It's an incoming problem though and they ask the towpath users to report it when they spot it.

[ynnafymmi]

@08.41.If yir nae frae Scotland,ye winna ken Peter.

[Canary42]

Why is it when I call out someone's typo I get lambasted as "spelling police", but folk feel free to mock mine. Double standards methinks.

Obviously I meant scarred but bloody auto-correct interfered. Grrrrr.

[Peter Pedant]

no one minded visious for vicious
presumably because no one read it
( or understood it)

hogweed is pretty scary !

or alternatively - get a liff

[Peter Pedant]

08.41.If yir nae frae Scotland,ye winna ken Peter.
o god I thought this was

if you are not from Scortland, you cannot win, Peter.
delphic, wise and multi-use - ever ready
in fact it is
if you are not from Scortland , you cannot understand Peter. = what he says
commonplace, uninteresting, plain, not news

ah me- such is Life ( or Liff)

[Peter Pedant]

chattingham has just posted a danger site