Hogweed is one of Canada's most dangerous plants, here's what you should know
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- If you touch the sap of giant hogweed, it could lead to 3rd-degree burns. That's why The Weather Network's Mark Robinson dons a hazmat suit to learn about how to remove Canada's most noxious weed.
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So. Ten years ago I identified several of these in the Rouge Valley in Toronto and brought it to the attention of the park authorities at the nearby campsite. Instead of removing them they just put up a warning sign. Now there are hundreds and hundreds of these things making the area off limits. But. God forbid you should park in front of your own house for more than three hours! You’ll have the parking authorities up your ass in no time! The city sure has its priorities!
100% ! Nothing makes sense these days!
they are nothing but revenue collectors
They don't actually give a crap about helping people. But then again, that's always what the government has been
The liberal way...
Obviously parking on a city street and hogweeds are related.
Hogweeds do not generate parking fee incomes 😅
In Poland the name of that plant is "Revenge Of Stalin".
I was about to comment the same!!
That's awesome
@@banagan4604 In the Soviet Union in the 60's, agronomists tried to find a not very capricious plant that could feed cattle and cows. They planted thousands of kilometers of land of the Soviet republics, this disgusting plant. In the end, their plan failed - the cows got sick from it. Our ancestors in Ukraine cut down this plant for centuries and knew about its danger, but the Soviet buffoons thought that , they were the smartest of all. Stupid Idiots. Now that, the Soviet fascist regime has been overthrown, and we are still clearing up the effects of Soviet occupation of our country.
@@avaheih I hope that you country heals from Soviet occupation just like Poland did. All the best.
@@avaheih hope you get rid of it at some point 🏴❤️
In Sweden we also have problems with this plant but it is considered an invasive species and with that it must be destroyed here you dig it up and then burn the ground so that plant parts are destroyed, but not all municipalities take this seriously.
used to work at a farm in skåne, spending 10 hours a day just killing these plants
2021-07-20 , kl. 21 och 30 (UTC+2) In swedish called "björnloka or "björnfloka".
Let them grow to full heigh and develop the flower basket. Cut them close to the soil.
They have the power to grow to full heigh twice.
Cut them twice and they are almoust dead.
Don´t let them make seeds.
Be careful.
Greetings from Trelleborg.
Southernmost in Sweden.
På svenska kallas "björnloka eller" björnfloka ".
Låt dem växa till full höjd och utveckla blomsterkorgen. Skär dem nära marken.
De har kraft att växa till full höjd två gånger.
Hugg dem två gånger och de är (nästan) döda.
Låt dem inte bilda frön.
Var försiktig.
Hälsningar från Trelleborg.
Sveriges sydligaste.
@@01i_gaming13 Denmark actually gave up on eradicating it ... so it only needs to be removed if it's a public accessible arear. It's allowed to leave growing in remote hard to get to arears, where the risk of "random ppl straying" is low. But yes it used to be "kill them all", but the plant spread faster than the municipalities could keep up, and a compromise was made, only kill it where it makes sense for security of humans.
yeah but its almost impossible to do it so thorougly you dont leave seeds or roots .. even if you do the seeds will populate the area coming from somewhere where people didnt bother ..
@@01i_gaming13 ja, det hedder lovgivning
We have hogweed everywhere in the forest here in Denmark, it's called "bears claws" when translated, we have ALOT of nature, and kindergarten-pre school-grade school students would often go out in nature for "nature class" looking at leaves, plants, fruits, herbs and hogweed is one of the first things we learn about, and how we should stay away from it.
Cool, it’s the same in Dutch (Berenklauw).
I'm 51, dane, and I learned as a kid it was a "keep far away"-plant ..
hi, American here. I envy u very much. We learned that nature exists but only verrryyy far away in places like the Antarctic and Death Valley
@@Brinta3 Very cool it's (Bjørne klo) in Danish
@@grassgeese3916 I wish you had more preserved nature in the US, even in the city center here you will find rivers with ducks, swans and other wildlife, we don't have the American style of having all industrial inner city and nature on the outskirts, maybe it will change in the future!
There was no mention of the seed life. Once dropped they are viable for up to 7 years! Its one of the reasons it spreads along streams and rivers so easily.
Really!? Thats incredible! Actually it makese sense. The UK had sever flooding back in 2015 and ever since then I've seen clusters of this plant popping up in new places quite far from the river, where before it was largely confined to the river banks. No doubt it will spread further out into the country side from there too since it seldom gets treated unless it is right in the way of people i.e paths, parks etc. It's a nightmare!
They also didn't talk about removing it once it has gone to flower. This is the worst possible time to control any plant. Cutting it down will likely cause seeds to go everywhere and it's just as bad leaving the flower or seed heads behind. They should be bagged up and properly composted or incinerated.
@Chris Waters I'm so glad you said that. I found a crazy little plant next to the swamp outside the Philadelphia Airport, I take it home and it turns out it's greater mullien. Two months later and it's near six feet tall and full of seed.
if you look in to seeds in general you will find how tough they are
@Chris Waters at least that stuff is good for you.
So who was the genius that thought it was a good idea to bring a toxic ornamental plant from Europe ?
Listen to the song "The Return Of The Giant Hogweed" by Genesis, and you'll get the answer. Second chorus, unless my memory fails me.
@@anajonda correct Ana, 2nd chorus it is
The People at the time were told not be racist against plants..It was law under communism rule at the time..
Originally its not exactly from europe, its invasive here as well and was brought here from the caucasus area. These plants are really impressive, some grow near rivers around my living area.
How White Supremacy of this world waged war on humans and plants bringing Invasive species everywhere
When I was young, my best friend and I were on vacation with my parents. One day I had the glorious idea to play knights and use badminton bats to chop at those huge plants, that were growing in the garden of the house. The next day we were covered in blisters filled with water. It hurt like hell. Thats how I learned about the giant hogweed the hard way.
I had a case of infection from the Hogweed on my ankles and it took 3 months for it to heal. The blisters from it were unreal and I had to drain them everyday. Eventually they dried up and now I have permanent scars from them on my ankles.
I got this on me without knowing and drove myself crazy trying to figure out how I burned myself. I was a chef at the time and it put me out of commission for a month because it would blister up and burst.
I had a fishtank with UV lighting for corals and that triggered the burning too. I honestly thought I was going crazy.
Just turning into a vampire.
😄
Insane
I got blisters all over me and they left scars after the burst but it never hurt at all, it didn’t even itch or anything. Did it hurt when you got it?
Oh no. How did you finally figure it out?
My mom grew 6 of these in her yard. She had no idea what it actually was until the following year. Luckily she was able get rid of it quickly.
to keep birds etc out
This plant was deliberately brought over as garden decoration; turns out it's violently poisonous to touch. Human folly never ceases to amaze me.
You should check out the origin of this hogweed, it comes from good old USSR. ;) Nothing to do with human, just soviet stupidity.
@@Myriip it intended for farm animals food and now the plant are eating most Russia land especially threating farmland.
They spend lots of money each year to rid it
So who got horribly poisoned by this thing and decided to bring it over? Doesn't make sense
Hello, colleagues!! I'm from Russia, we also have a problem with borscht! Similarly, we dress in protective clothing and dig it, also apply other methods where possible.
Our community Antiborschevik - is those who see the problem and are already trying to solve it in all available ways. We want to live on a normal healthy earth, and not surrounded by a poisonous jungle of hogweed. Not all of Russia is overgrown yet, and we hope to preserve at least what is left. And if possible, return the land to "as it was before".
I am glad to meet like-minded people across the ocean! Although it is very sad, of course, that this green invader also came to you. ((
It's the only plant in Ontario that I truly fear when in the bush. Poison Oak and Ivy don't come close in comparison.
Hogweed sap can and will disfigure you for life. It's no joke. There are 5 other look alike plants to Hogweed in Ontario, Poison Hemlock, Spotted Water Hemlock, Cow Parsnip, Queen Anne’s Lace and Wild Parsnip, all of which are not very good to handle. Try to avoid contact with all multi-stem plants with tiny white clustered flowers.
Most of what you said is correct except: Queen Anne's lace is completely safe. It is literally just a carrot. But don't go harvesting wild carrots until you can tell the difference between it and it's lookalikes.
@@Plant_Parenthood You're absolutely right. The main reason I include Queen Anne's Lace is because how difficult it is to positively identify to Hemlock. Some hemlocks like Spotted Water Hemlock roots still smell exactly like carrot. With so many lookalikes, the risk of misidentifying Queen Anne's Lace is simply not worth it, at least for me.
@@BigKarl519 yes it is very close to water hemlock. If you should accidently ingest the hemlock your done.
@@BigKarl519 It's not that hard to identify most of the time. Queen Anne's Lace has hairy stems, parsley-like leaves, and wholely green stems with a solid white pith core that smell like carrots when crushed. If the stem is hollow or has purplish/reddish hue or blotches, has a chemically smell, and no hairs, then it's not Queen Anne's Lace.
Disfigure ?? Wtf
Hogweed has shown up in Virginia where it is often misrecognized as Queen Anns Lace... a plant we as children would pick and place in colored water to observe the flowers changing to the color of the dye in the water.
You just confirmed a sighting of it for me. I was just camping in the New Hampshire area and my boyfriend said “woah did you see that huge queen Anne’s lace??” but I didn’t. Now I think he saw one of these things by the road 😟
I'm in central Ohio. We had a bunch of them pop up a few years ago that turned into a huge deal.
Fortunately it popped up just outside of a local arboretum, so it was recognized and deal with quickly
We have it here in NJ too so yes, it's spreading in the US as well.
not only can queen annes lace be misidentified as hogweed but also hemlock, which is far more dangerous, so be careful!
They're both from the same flowering plant family as carrots.
*Someone touches the plant*
15 minutes later: "Your vampire blood boils in the sunlight."
Always good to see these comments pop up
😄
Me, a redhead: “So, it doesn't do anything then?"
I could hear the Oblivion sound effect when I read that.
This stuff also grows here in Germany a lot, it is called Riesenbärenklau here and as children we were warned to never touch it or it wouldburn our skin so we were kind of scared of it as children (it also looks very intimidating with its huge spiky leaves).
In the UK it has been eliminated in places by fencing off areas beside rivers and allowing cattle to graze the banks early in the season and they will clear the area. Then obviously remove the cattle. A few repeats over a season or two and the problem can be cleared. Start at the highest affected area of the river catchment and work down over the seasons.
Brilliant solution
Great idea
Cattle are totally immune?
@@BonannoCM yeah so are sheep and goats
The problem is the size of this country, Ontario alone is more than 8 times bigger than the whole UK. It would be an unfathomable amount of work and most of it would be through extremely rough terrain with zero road access
I know my plants and had NO idea, really appreciate this video, I'm on the hunt now as I am around many trails and streams!
yeah and look up wild parsnip too... those are making the rounds as well
You won't miss them.. They are big plants.
Cow Parsnip looks pretty much identical to Giant Hogweed, and its sap has the same burning photodermatitis effect. The only differences I've seen so far in looking them up is they'll grow up to 8 ft tall, whereas Hogweed gets up to 20 ft or so, and a subtle difference in the leaves.
Me too. Had a couple graduate level courses on weeds, but my Kentucky professor never mentioned giant hogweed. I got burned by it the first summer I was in Sweden, only on my arms, but q2 years later and I still have scars.
You should also warn people NOT to burn it! The sap would turn into gas with the same burning effects, and as vapor it could easily get in your eyes when near the fire
Dang.
Nope this is not true!
OR LUNGS!
What does this crap do if ingested?
@@belliott538 Worst case scenario you will drown but that is a lot of sap you need to down then.
The stuff does nothing at all unless you also swallow an UV lamp, and if so lets face it you have bigger problems already.
@@belliott538 remember to look things up yourself and not trust the replies.
I'm just here to say that Nursery Cryme is a great album and "Giant Hogweed" is the name of one of the songs.
Ah, classic Genesis. Foxtrot and 'Lamb Lies Doesn't are great, too.
I had these on my property near Port Perry, and got nailed by them while taking them down last year. Took 3 months for the burns to heal. I now go out there and check the area they were in weekly for any more. Wear gloves, long sleeves, long pants, and closed shoes and they are not a problem to deal with. You really don't want the sap to get on bare skin.
RacerRickxx, watch getting too much sun on it now. You may get that rash back several times over the next few years.
I'm an hour from Port Perry; know it pretty well. I think Hogweed is also one of those noxious plants that shouldn't be burned in a fire pit if people could be exposed to the smoke. The toxins are that persistent. All those cuttings left in the video are still toxic for a long time. Damn stuff. If we could only feed it to gobies and zebra mussels in Ontario.
@@charlieross-BRM so what you’re saying is minarchism? 😄 😁
I live in Blackstock! Yes I've seen a few around Durham but thankfully not on my property as of yet
I called the city of brantford and made a report of giant hogweed 4 years ago… and nobody ever removed them… I moved away since but I checked on it for at least a year
Checked on it but couldnt just take care of it?
@@nickford5549 adam did his part for sure, it's more than most people would have done. he most likely just didn't want to lug out a hazmat suit and potentially put himself in harm's way to take care of a plant that shouldn't be his responsibility to take care of.
@@sth5033 Sums up just how lazy and complacent our society has become. Instead of taking care and helping our communities, we depend on a apathetic and sleepy bureaucracy to fix all our problems - which they don't bother with half the time unless votes or money was at stake.
@@kovona Laziness is the park caretaker who won't do their job, not the citizen who reports a problem and obeys the law. The real laziness is to allow the corruption to persist. If they only move when money are votes are at stake, put them at stake. Don't do the lazy idiot's job for them in a broken system maintained by corrupt politicians who you won't work to vote out, and then moan about lazy society while they both collect their government checks, and you wonder why things never improve and they never clean up their act!
Next time, call some local garden clubs. We know about invasive plants!
My club has regular events to remove invasives at local parks and other public sites.
And we tell landscape companies and garden shops about the invasives they are, often unwittingly, selling and planting. (I've never known any to throw away their current plant offerings, but they'll often agree to stop ordering them.)
State governments usually have LOTS of info online! Available free! Often attractive brochures for sale too. I bought 100 for less than $10.
Goats love to eat this stuff. Nature provides a way.
You could have Jurassic Park grade fences and still couldn't keep them away from it xD
Does it hurt the goats?
The superior species. They will outlive us all
@@drrocketman7794 it makes the goat milk bitter don't know how it will affect the meat tho.
@@raifikarj6698 a different goat for every occasion
Seems like a cross between poison ivy and stinging nettle, crossed with mustard gas.
Sadam: heavy sweating and profuse slobbering
Mostly, like if poison ivy made you a vampire!
Great for wintertime when warmth isn’t available to incur a fever?
No one is talking about going blind when you get some sap in your eye.
yes, have heard of this as well.
A single giant hogweed plant grew in some overgrowth on our property right on the border of a flower bed. We are coastal BC so the weather is very moderate. I noticed a small plant in the fall but didn't make much of it. By Spring, when I ventured to that part of the property I saw it had grown to about 5 feet tall. We were busy, I had no new plans for the flower bed so I went about my business. I did not know what the plant was. Mid summer comes along and I stroll back and there was a 12 foot tall plant with leaves the size of elephant ears. I had no idea what it was so I started asking friends about it. Within about 10 minutes of posting my question I got a response from a friend who never curses. He took one off my backside with his expressive response! He told me it was probably giant hogweed and warned me to keep everyone and my pets away. I had it removed. The odd thing is that it was just one plant in a very odd place. I think a bird must have dropped a seed. Does anyone know if the seeds are poison for birds?
Its not poisonous in the way people think, them injesting the seed will do very little to them
So a bird probably took a dump while flying and it landed there.
It's not poisonous if ingested, only the sap on the skin is dangerous. The common hogweed is edible, and pretty good actually, despite having the same toxin at a lower concentration.
I had the rare experience managing urban waterways and wetlands for Seattle Parks. Invasive species erupt in disturbed ecologies further damaging habitat for native species. Hog weed, Garlic Mustard and Policemans Helmut were my etermination list.
@@8BitGamer4life I wonder if it "burned" on the way out of the bird.
Watched a British documentary on a famous "poison" garden on a Ducal estate.
Hogweed was included.
Gardener said the symptoms can return over and over for 5 YEARS!
Yeah, he gardens in a hazmat suit.
Alnwick Poison Garden?
The weather network actually tells you something useful! unlike global news, ctv, cbc, City news, the national.........
it tt kind of stuff they should learn in school.
I bet they did and we just didn't pay attention
Teachers can't teach what they don't know . Botany is a branch of biology that deals specifically with the study of plants and scientists who study botany are called botanists.
I learned about it only in environmental club. So id say in a school of about 300 kids, about 10-15 kids over a five year period were actually taught about local noxious plants. It is something I think should be taught in schools.
@@VeginMatt We learnt about it by expanding our minds to prog music !
I used to chop these down with sticks as a kid, only found out they could damage your skin a few years ago 😂
You were probably hacking down the normal hogweed as a kid. This is a larger version of the species.
@@leemon908 youre a larger version of the species
There are many similar plants
Could have been Cow Parsnip, looks similar. Look up the differences, could be a life saver.
@@leemon908 I don't think it effects everyone the same, like posion oak/ivy.. A crew of us was picking this stuff out of some crops that a farmer had let go too much, some of it was about as tall as us and we was fine all but one, his whole arm was burnt up looking, it was crazy, didn't even know the stuff could do that..
In Mexico we call it "Bad woman". Its stem is red and it grows more than 2 meters high. Its burn is very very painful. It has to be burned down or buried deep in the ground but never chopped cause it multiplicates. It's nightmare.
This guy thinking that if he "chops it with his shovel a bit" is going to do anything except slow it down, he's not familiar with swamp ecology.
😂
Meaning ?
@@User-ge7ni Meaning he's barely slowing the growth. Chopped plants if left out will bud and form several new plants, but enjoy all the extra ground hugging hog weed.
@@Patrone68 depends on the plant.. afaik hogweed is not so good at sprouting new roots when it is laying on soil.
i doubt that it is a swamp plant as well
@@Patrone68 Maybe stay at brick production ehh?
I'm from Alberta and was wondering why I'd never heard of hogweed before, but then they said that it doesn't grow in the Prairies. Hopefully it won't adapt.
I heard that! Probably to windy
Hog weed is everywhere, it is here in Alberta as well , literally everywhere . It is very common.
@@Tj-lk2mj cow parsnip is more common, not saying hogweed doesn't grow here, but a lot of people mistake the two.
@@MarkSeiler yeah cow parsnip is everywhere. No joke either
@@rhumandlove393 We came across some while land clearing, the guy I was working with didn't know and was pulling them up bare handed, suffice it to say he didn't come back to work after that.
Glad to see David Gilmour helping Canada out like this.
This plant is everywhere in Denmark aswell. As kids we knew it was dangerous but it was all over the place, and one of my friends fell into a huge bush of it.. was badly injured his skin never really recovered. He was lucky to be alive, to be honest. never forgot that.
And I always thought that the Genesis song about the giant hogweed was... Fantasy
Had a big one in the back of my yard a few years ago. I dug it up with a shovel and threw it in the fire pit. Haven't seen one since.
Be careful. The smoke from burning them is ALSO poisonous iirc
dont breathe that crap in
Now I have to dig out my copy of Genesis “Nursery Cryme” and give it a spin!
The song makes a lot more sense now! I had no idea about any of this. Now I have to go learn about Salmacis and why she has a fountain.
Was wondering how many, if any people would reference that.
😂😂😂
Glad I'm not alone.
The first Genesis studio album featuring Steve Hackett on lead guitar, as well as Phil Collins on drums and lead vocals on "For Absent Friends." Along with Peter Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, and Tony Banks, Genesis tried as best they could to warn us about this dire threat 50 years ago. But we we didn't listen to them, and we're still paying a terrible price for our ignorance.
"Looooong aaaaaago
in the Russian Hills...."
My love of Genesis is the only reason I checked out this video. I didn't know that Giant Hogweeds were an actual thing.
I live in Oregon and this plant is everywhere now. Absolutely taken over
I'm glad I watched this video! I'm also glad I read several of the comments because I learned information that was not included in the video.
This looks like Queen Anne’s lace and hemlock. Hemlock is so toxic you can’t burn it because of the fumes it’s even bad if you get near it / smell it 😢
Same plant family.
(Apiaceae)
When i was young i touched this plant on a farm and suffered horrendous burns.
Piss off. If you got seriously burnt you did a lot more than touch it.
@@hedgehog3900 Lol wtf is wrong with you lmao, you mad? haha Incel.
This stuff has seriously invaded Washington State's mountains. Saw thousands of them a while back lining the roadsides near very popular camping areas.
The thing I find most amazing is the demonstration of how good the skin is at defending itself against UV. Wow that's amazing.
That's a really great point. Once that natural protection is removed, the skin relatively quickly develops 2nd and 3rd degree burns just from the sun.
What I'm most curious about is how in the love of mathematics did the algorithm know to send me this...
You're Canadian
@@obsidianzarok2361 Nah, we aren't all gay. Good to know what demographic you're a part of though, good luck finding your man.
Said Bouziane,
EXACTLY !
I live in Montana, USA.
We were out in the woods yesterday and came upon a wet area with a large, green leafed, multi stemed, white flowered plant.
We didn't know what plant it was. I took a picture (is this where the info web was activated ?) and sent it. And now, miraculously, youtube is monitoring my every call, picture, text, web search, travel, etcetera.
Meh, wrote an algorithm to encourage the spread of underground music through content watched by clusters of users for uni. Basically ,through network analysis, it considers how much in common you have with other users, finds those users most similar to you and suggests you the content that they watched/listened to in the first iteration (which modifies the things you have watched so you have more things in common with others) rinse and repeat for the second, third, and fourth iteration. Considering the 6 degrees of separation and basically hundreds of iterations this isn't weird at all.
Edit: fun fact, same algorithm can be used to snoop for money laundering operations via cash transfers.
Didn't the British band Genesis warn us of the return of the giant hogweed?
and here i thought 'giant hogweed' was just a genesis song.
Canada is slowly becoming upside down Australia
0:22 expert rubs his nose with his rubber gloves
my dad almost died to this plant as a kid. he was swimming and touched one of them, he suffered an alergic reaction and started halucinating. almost drowned, this plant is no joke.
Damn better luck next time
Thanks for the video. So many people don't know about this plant. I had a graduate level course in weed science, but the professor didn't talk about this dangerous plant. It was in a place Giant hogweed doesn't grow. It got me but I was lucky. Late in the evening and only on my arm. Twelve years later and I still have scars.
Man me and a friend used those things as wizard staffs back when we where children.
Thank god those where wilted when we used them
One of the worst weeds. Here in Russia too, the tall plants sometimes form impassable walls. I hate that the Soviets dispersed it everywhere.
It was brought to Lithuania by the Soviet authorities as a means of cheap and fast growing food source for livestock. It was done without much thought and research and on the sole observation that the plant had a fast growth rate and considerable biomass. Turned out it was poisonous to cows etc. and no real effort was taken in eradicating the plant.
As you can see from the comment section democratic americans from Virginia to Alaska also "dispersed it everywhere"
We have hogweed in Russia too, unfortunately, just digging it out of the ground and chopping it up afterwards doesn't work, it just keeps on growing anyways
sounds like they tend to grow deeper taproots where you live. it's weird how the same plant can grow so differently in different places.
@@thomasneal9291 No, he's a bit over exaggerating, if you dig it out it wont grow, but unfortunatelly they grow in a big colonies, so the new seeds will give more new plants
"Except the prairies" SCORE
I got just the tiniest bit of sap from one of these on the back of my left hand when I was a toddler. It took twenty years until the burn scar faded enough that people stopped asking questions. These things are definitely no joke.
"A glorious looking plant... an ornament..." a classic, beauty is only skin deep. This reminds me of the story of kudzu from the introduction at the Centennial Exposition in 1876 to prevent soil erosion in the Delta.... explosive and invasive, hard to control.
... at least kudzu is delicious to eat and doesn't burn your skin! Not saying that kudzu is welcome, but at least...
@@shawnchong I was unaware that kudzu is edible.... all of it is except for the seeds and the pods.
@@kepler186f4 kudzu is tasty. Often used by Asians as a thickening agent & made into a beverage as well. Quite expensive for a package at a Japanese grocery store.
@@lionofgod5843 One day I would like to try some.
I've seen that plant so many times. It's all over where I live.
I wanted to hear more about the protective layer on the skin that gets rendered useless upon touching the plant’s chemical.
It's a concentrated furanocumarins solution, it is commonly found in citruses and is harmless, and even beneficial in minimal doses. It is also used in tanning creams. But in the dosage that the giant hogweed sap has it causes damage and destruction of epithelial cells under the UV-light, e.g. photodermatitis.
So, the first thing to do if you accidentally touch the plant, is to cover the place of contact with multiple layers of thick fabric.
I had never heard of it. Thanks for info.
My entire 3/4 acre yard is surrounded by these and Devil's Club. I've essentially bathed in the sap before cutting them down, though it's always cloudy here. The only time I got a burn was from a tiny, stressed plant on an extremely sunny hike. A light brush and I had 3rd degree burn on my shin that took a couple years to dissipate entirely.
“Cow Parsnip” is a different plant, very similar, and found commonly with Devils Club. Worth a look-up. It’s a local plant, less toxic, and caps out around 5-8 feet tall.
There are hundreds of these in my backyard, the Town Of Smithers doesn’t care. I shouldn’t be surprised, last year they cut down a tree just outside our property line and told my 65 year old mother to clean it up.
When giant hogweed is at the end of flowering, think twice before touching it. You want the seeds to spread as little as possible, and disturbing it can make it worse.
Ideally, you cut them down before they flower so they can't spread.
Got a bit of an epidemic of these things going on in northern Nroway. Here, it's got the name Tromsøpalme, named after the city of Tromsø.
Been quite a few reports of children getting serious burns after being in contact with these and there's been a lot of effort put into locating, notifying, and removing them from yards, roadsides, and forests, especially close to neighbourhoods.
Had an infestation show up in our back yard a decade or so ago. They grew so tall over a couple days of not really paying attention to the back window in our kitchen, that it got completely blocked off. Wasn't fun chopping them down, and digging up the roots, but it was nice to get sunlight through our window again. Also these suckers grow worryingly fast.
Who says its not on the prairies?I've come across it numerous times..
1:50 giant hogweed execution
Great PSA, thank you very much.
Humans: we like this poisonous plant, let's plant it in our gardens.
Obviously these guys were sent by big pharma ⚕ and are lying, do some research yourself as I have ...
@@kellikelli4413 what?
@@dudemanguy3912
This weed is actually MEDICINAL but big pharma ⚕ wants people to think it's dangerous.
Everyone should be aware by now that they have managed to ban a few cures already‼️
Big pharma ⚕ is evil in my opinion.
@@kellikelli4413 well......how is it medicinal? You have definitely piqued my curiosity because I love finding out how obnoxious weeds can actually be a huge benefit.
@@GalokVonGreshnak It used to be used as a medicinal herb a long time ago, while this KELLI KELLi guy is a nut if he thinks its not dangerous (my sister touched one while playing in a garden while she was very young, she is now in her mid 20's and if her right arm gets sunlight the extremely painful rash comes back) he's correct it was once used as medicine.
Haven't seen it in my part of Ontario but I've eliminated wild Parsnip by cutting down before it flowers!
some people in toronto have this in their garden
Sounds about right.
What genius thought this would be a great garden ornament? humans.
god i will never cease to be amazed at how dumb we can be when it comes to plants and animals. we've destroyed so much and its going to take a million times more effort than it took for some pompous, masochistic landowner to go "oh i like dangerous beauty"
Thanks for the heads up. I’ve heard about this plant but never caught the name. Giant hog weed.
In Ireland in the seventies, one of my friend's father was a butcher and had some big knives.
We each got a knife and went hacking through the "jungle".
It was giant hogweed, our hands and arms were giant water blisters the next day.
I gave you a thumbs up, but I'm so sorry ...
That's refreshing to know it's not found in the Prairies!
dontchu worry ill send some over
@@KiddeeKush don't do it!
Im from the prairies and its here as well so don't get to excited..This guy is wrong..
Yeah it's everywhere..
Sounds a lot like Triffids only it doesn't kill and eat you - you just wish, for awhile, it did.
a while, not awhile.
@@hughjaanus6680 Where's your swastika at?
@@johnwinter2252 I'm a nazi Grammarian too!
😘
Haven't you ever read comments that ~sound~ vaguely important but it's one huge run-on sentence that you can't make heads or tales of?
AT&T started including punctuation in telegrams after they were sued by an irate rich husband.
Wife in Paris wired husband that she wanted to buy an expensive necklace.
Husband wired back:
NO PRICE TOO HIGH.
Think about it.
@@johnwinter2252 "Where's your swastika at?"
obvious answer: "Your mom's house"
Rolled in this stuff in Alaska mid-summer (age 5), had boils on my back and ribs that left scars for years
Here in Alaska it's just cow parsnip - but the effect is the same. I had brown scars on both my hands from touching the stuff before I knew how toxic it was. Took two years for the splotches to fade away.
Old Genesis Song, "The Return of the Giant Hogweed". Awesome song from Nursery Cryme.
This weed is problematic also in ex-soviet union, also in Latvia. A company found an effective herbicide for it and road workers are using it, railway companies and also farmers. I have also this weed at my fields.
And now your water is poisoned from the herbicide. Geeeze
@@thefpvlife7785 Some people just like being awkward
i have fields of this in my back yard. Thanxs for this!
You could also water them with vinegar... wait until a really hot day and pour vinegar around the roots. They'll suck it up, thinking it's water...
Thank you for the information
Wow. Never heard of this bugger. Thank you.
Reminds me of paulie "I can feel the itch in me already" hehe
Flowers and coloration of stalk (purple splotches) look like Hemlock.
Yup... I'm just going to stay away from any plant that resembles that silhouette.
Canada: this thing is a monster
Russia: cant agree less
Great excuse to get good with a scythe, I've personally cleared a half acre of the stuff from my dad's property just for sheer fun.
Get some goats. Goats will eat it. We need to do what nature says we should do
It doesn't effect the goats?
Goats and especially sheep are not affected by the toxins. In fact prefer it over normal grass and will actively seek it out
You can actually eat it your self it is not poisonous as such no harm will come tro you from consumption.
Just think of the sap as anti sun screen cream. As long as you do not get it on your skin and then walk out into sunlight it will do nothing!
@@larsgadell5016 You eat it!
I get the gist of what you're saying.. 'doing what nature intends' ... but theses plants are also 'doing what nature intends'. Nature doesn't have a goal, or intent. That's us. You could just as well argue that nature 'intended' humans to spread invasive organisms araound the world. We have certainly done a good job of it. :-)
wow thats crazy, i am definitely going to avoid that crazy plant
I wear thick gauntlets and use a long handled spade to chop through the roots in early summer. I push the plants out of the way down the steep riverbank. As it is an annual that flowers in mid-summer, the best time is to wait until the flower stalk has started to form (using up a lot of the plant's energy), but BEFORE the flowers have properly formed or had chance to set seed (early June in northern England). The plant is monocarpic (flowers once), so that should be the end of that individual plant. The problem is that, unless other landowners upstream carry out the same controls, the first autumn flood will bring more seedlings to be deposited on the bare riverbanks.
So valuable before my GDT adventure, youtube algorithm delivered!
I have seen this stuff all over Scotland ever since I was a kid and never been burned by it despite breaking the stems and using them as play swords etc. Then watching this I realized that you need to combine it with direct sunlight... which explains the lack of issues.
I was thinking the same thing mate me and my brother would make swords out of wood and chop away at these thing for ages never once had any burns or blisters
several other plants look similar
I blame the Scots for importing gorse to New Zealand. here... it is a hugely destructive, evergreen, weed that displaces EVERYTHING and grows massive sharp spikes all over it. has ruined any ability to climb hills in most places, and permanently destroyed entire ecosystems.
I hear in Scotland it is just a pleasant decorative plant. :P
Good to know 👍
Thanks for the info
Great video about Nasty stuff. I've destroyed and reported a few patches where I live in the lower mainland. It's everywhere, but catching it young and before flowering is key.
Man this looks like a perfect plant to grow in our yard, let's bring it over!
I've gotten it on my ankles and was off my feet for a week with 2nd degree burns
Blisters 3/4 of an inch wide
woof, sorry to hear that. i've had 2nd degree burns all down my right arm before, they are really no joke. can't imagine being burnt close to my feet, walking must have been a hassle.
@0:04 Squirrel fight in the tree, top left corner...haha
So basically it turns you into a discount Wal Mart Vampire.
Make sure you warsh that off.
I read it first as Hogwarts… I’m not even a Potterhead!
this summer i found a big cluster of these in the woods never knew they were toxic but big and cool
Rare case when YT video is actually useful and you don't waste time watching it.