Posted on 04/15/2021 2:46:49 AM PDT by nickcarraway
NY ping as this plant is found in NY.
It takes professional attention to get rid of this nasty.
Although I don’t farm, the Ohio Dept. of Agriculture must think I do. I’ve gotten a notice to look out for giant hogweed here in my eastern county.
ROFL
Wow
I’ll definitely keep an eye out for it
Reminds me of the movie “The Day of the Triffids”
Return of the Giant Hogweed - Genesis
Turn and run!
Nothing can stop them
Around every river and canal their power is growing
Stamp them out!
We must destroy them
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour
They are invincible
They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering
Long ago in the Russian hills
A Victorian explorer found
The regal Hogweed by a marsh
He captured it and brought it home
Botanical creature stirs! Seeking revenge...
Royal beast did not forget
He came home to London
And made a present of the Hogweed
To the Royal Gardens at Kew
Waste no time!
They are approaching
Hurry now, we must protect ourselves and find some shelter
Strike by night!
They are defenceless
They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom
Still they’re invincible
Still they’re immune to all our herbicidal battering
Fashionable country gentlemen
Had some cultivated wild gardens
In which they innocently planted
The Giant Hogweed throughout the land
Botanical creature stirs! Seeking revenge...
Royal beast did not forget
Soon they escaped, spreading their seed
Preparing for an onslaught
Threatening the human race
Mighty Hogweed is avenged!
Human bodies soon will know our anger
Kill them with your Hogweed hairs!
Heracleum Mantegazziani
It looks like “global Warming” will make it a “Canada only” problem in North America by 2100. We can only hope.
I’m using the same stupid “science” the media sells us every night.
Wow looks like giant Queen Ann’s Lace.
Book was much, much better. Just re-read it last year, just as good as I remembered.
Or plant a giant ring of it around where you don’t want people to go.
Herbicide? LOL
Do they have any plans for abatement or removal of the plant?
It is a non-native invasive species?
Or are there preservationists?
< /BillClinton >
Triffids?
The link has good pictures of it at various stages.
Giant hogweed has not naturalised on mainland Australia. Giant hogweed has not naturalised in Tasmania. Giant hogweed has been recorded near Devonport in northern Tasmania, but appears to have been eradicated.
hopefully...
Plenty of other things to kill you in Australia.
Got tapping? Guitarist Steve Hackett does.
Thus, the repurposing of the word “Bogart”.
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