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Work on the railway in Ontario, this nasty plant grows in our right a ways. The company is trying to control its spread.
 
why is it that one will never see, e.g., Martha Stewart extolling the virtues of a plant with a name such as giant hogweed

and now, look at this... a lovely backdrop of giant hogweed setting off the nightshade and the pokeberries!
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We've had a similiar article in local papers here in Mississauga and Toronto areas about 2 years ago..It has been found in some parks and naturalized areas and it is recommended it be destroyed by the proper authority..Simply do not touch..Problem is the seeds of the plant spread easily and care must be taken trying to rid of it..
As a weed/pest exterminator,I have not yet encountered the weed,but I know of city emplyees who have come across it..

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mhardy6647 said:
why is it that one will never see, e.g., Martha Stewart extolling the virtues of a plant with a name such as giant hogweed
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If it had any appeal to that crowd it would get a new froofy name. :yes:

Why are these rampant pests never good for anything? If asparagus or strawberries (or Acapulco Gold for that matter) grew all over the place free for the taking, we'd be getting somewhere. :scratch2:
 
I've run across this stuff on a jobsite once, and it's got some bad mojo! Brushed it with the backs of my hands by accident on the way out of the woods at the end of the day, and within 5 minutes they were so swollen I could not reach into a pocket to get the truck keys to drive home! I looked like one of those cartoons where someone got blown up with a bicycle pump for a day. Giant hogweed, ugghh.
 
mhardy6647 said:
why is it that one will never see, e.g., Martha Stewart extolling the virtues of a plant with a name such as giant hogweed
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and now, look at this... a lovely backdrop of giant hogweed setting off the nightshade and the pokeberries!
Click to expand...

I have a large nightshade and (had) a pokeweed. In fact, I was rather proud of my "trophy" pokeweed, it had been growing for several years. But a new fence rubbed it out, still have the nightshade. I saw another pokeweed down the alley, I'm thinking of getting another one started. Other wild stuff I had was rhubarb (wiped out by a previous fence) and currants (wiped out by that same fence). I have a volunteer currant bush coming back, this one is sticking around.

Don't have any hogweed, but a guy offered me some skunkweed once. I told him I didn't want to do any more mowing and weedeating and I'd pass.
 
Pokeweed. Someone once told me it was edible, and I had some sprout and grow 3 ft. high in a few weeks. So I picked a bunch of leaves and put them in the fridge. A friend who's a plant biologist came over to visit, and I proudly showed her the bag. She was shocked and explained that you have to eat the shoots when they're less than a foot off the ground, or you'll get horrible intestinal upset. Good thing she came by before I cooked those up.
 
poke weed (also known as poke salad and probably other things) contains a very interesting lectin (carbohydrate binding protein) generally known in the biz as "PWM" (poke weed mitogen)... There are many plant lectins, many of which have associated toxicity, and some of which are among the most toxic substances known -- the two-chain plant toxins ricin and abrin, pound per pound among the most toxic compounds known, contain a lectin chain and a toxic enzymatic chain - one molecule can kill a cell by disrupting its protein synthesis.

I know you all wanted to know that! :-)
 
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