http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxeIWAufUQU
United States citizens are urged to remain calm following reports that noxious, invasive Giant Hogweed
has risen and attacked the population of New York City. The striking,
20-foot tall weeds release a sap causing burns, blindness, and death.
“Stay indoors and out of range of these plants at all cost,” warned
Nathan Holright of the New York Department of Environmental Conservation
(DEC). “Their sap is especially dangerous, as it can blind you. If you
see a Giant Hogweed, run.”
http://scientificenquirer.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/nyc-destroyed-by-giant-hogweed/
dang. here i thought candelabra cactus sap was bad.
Stuff must be like monster Bull Nettle. Running through a field once’t I
thought I bin snakebit. Turned out to be Bull Nettle. Hogweed seems
even worse in its effects.
((And to think Stormy wants Jez to send him some rue. From the sounds of it, the sap is just as bad, but at least rue isn’t so invasive and overblown. This is a damned scary plant!))
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.
Gets the Triffid gun ready…
Wow, I thought this was a joke at first, but they really are that scary. Six to sixteen feet tall, and in some cases over 20!?!? We’re all doomed.
Tesla, I thought the whole thing a joke when I used to listen to the song above, a product of Mr Gabriel’s artistic noggin’. Then yestiddy I found out the things are real! Holy crap!
And I had forgotten about triffids, Avariel!
Inneybuddy read Shadow of the Torturer? This is like that avern plant:
“When I flourished the second plant and practiced striking out with it and picking and throwing the leaves, I found that my own avern was likely to be almost as great a danger to me as the Septentrion’s.”
The Shadow of the Torturer
*slips on her gardening gloves*
Mighty hogweed lives…