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Is it dangerous *_before_* it grows ginormous? If so, it would be useful to tell us how to identify the small plants.

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What a striking plant!

When I was little we found this hogweed in our forest while hiking with my father. He played with a non-toxic variety when he was young and didn’t know that the toxic kind was introduced to Ukraine. So I had his hand print burned on my forearm for quite some time 😅

What is the name of that fox

Just get some of the small Dextet cattle... They eat them and gnaw this horrible plant down so far, that it can never grow back! No planticides, just hungry cttle!😀👍🔥

This is a joke video right? because I'm pretty sure the younger generation has zero common sense, they're probably making you tube video's of themselves jumping around and taking baths in that stuff .

Thank you, I was just walking my dog around plants that look like that, but wasn't sure if it was the bad one or the harmless one

Thank you for giving me a new fear

I am going to plant some in my neighbors yard.

this seems like an Englishman weed

I remember discovering this around where I grew up on a trail, and didn't realize it wasn't native and considered invasive. I watched them from a distance remove it, and they were dressed almost in full hazmat gear to get rid of it.

turns out theres like 8 of these tight next to my house lol

I play with those grass all the time 😂

We have cow parsnip growing locally which is a near identical double for hogweed except it's smaller and isnt blotchy purple on the stem. It does contain lower concentrations of the same toxic compounds as hogweed though. The crazy part is that early in the season when the cow parsnips are still young, it is collected as an edible!

Yeh now try kill it 🌱 💥

When i was 12 i had legs and arms full blisters because of it. Took almost 10 years before all scars were gone. It's painfull and dangerous. You can dehydrate rather fast. In Dutch it's called "reuze berenklauw" or "giant bear claw" translated.

what the F it's so big!!

I had that in my yard. I cut it down and put it in refuge. I used gloves. Interesting.

hogweed is a myth

Since then, it mutated, and now can chase you down.

I was once left with blisters on my arms that took months to heal properly. It was caused by native common hogweed. The sap reacted with sunlight in a similar way. I was using a strimmer whilst wearing a T-shirt on a summer day. Another guy I was with, was bare chested so was sprayed worse. Cover up when you're cutting and strimming.

Damn imagine accidentally touching a plant and now you're allergic to the sun

Crazy idea...cut down the crazy tall dangerous plant.....what am i missing here?

Its spelt L Y me not I

where does it grow?

Do not touch or ingest or inhale! I've heard that you need professional eradicators, because its sap can remain active for a long time in the surrounding area if not removed well. Pretty much need to use a throwaway hazmat suit for its eradication.

Grew up around it never had a problem

Does this plant help anyone in anyway? or should we have a massive extermination campaign to get rid of it around the world?

it's like this plant is nature's manifestation of "I hate nature"

We have had an explosion in west europe lately, the are everywhere along small streams

Need DDT

What about the smaller version that you might find by a storm drain or flood canal that are like only 1 ft - 2 ft tall? 🤔

Well…that certainly scared the sh!t out of me…….

haha, I chopped down an area of 10x10 ft as a teen to test the sharpness of my knife. Didn’t know it was poisonous, just paranoid: Didn’t get a single drop splash on me or my clothes.

Just looking at this evil, noxious weed makes me want to break out in hives......

This may sound odd but the treatment my mom used when we came into contact with this kind of stuff and poison Ivy is to pour bleach on a rag, scrub the affected area, then immediately wash off the same area with soap and water. The bleach will breakdown and neutralize the oils from the plant.

Ty for the public danger warning.

WHY does this plant have such a horrid ability!???? NO ONE IS TRYING TO EAT IT! Hogweed needs to chill tf out.

I clicked on this 'cause I thought the title was about Bolton Valley Vermont USA. It's somewhat common in New England as well. Your neck of the woods looks like mine over here!

Hell I just did a cleaning of a yard last week with 6 guys from home depot.. so far none have the rash. I guess not all will get it.

Poison Hemlock

It's a miracle, with the number of poisonous species of plants, and the amount of time I spent in the woods and fields as a kid, that I survived mostly unscathed. (poison ivy was the only bane of my early years)

A less well known fact is that Cow Parsnip/Common Hogweed, Heracleum sphodylium, has very much the same effect on skin and eyes as Giant Hogweed and is much more common in the UK. The symptoms are l bit less harsh, but the healing time is very long [months] and will often lead to permanent skin discoloration. I found this out the hard way... with a strimmer, shirt off, on a sunny day ! Please do not repeat my mistake

I still have a scar on my neck from 8 years ago from the skin bubbling. I almost died too, definitely inhaled some particles because my lungs were absolutely shredded. Being in the sun was like having a car lighter on my skin for weeks. It was all less than a bottlecap amount of sap too

ok, the accent, but where is this at?

Thank you! I didn’t know about that plant before your video.

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A dose of Glyphosate will kill it...then burn it!!!

The Return Of The Giant Hogweed. a song by Genesis from early 1970’s A great piece of music. I had always assumed The Giant Hogweed was fictional.