🆔 👇 Giant hogweed can grow to almost 6m in ideal climates (19ft) but is more commonly seen in the UK standing at around 4m (13ft) It has a thick hollow bright green stem with dark red or purple spots/streaks and coarse spiny hairs which are more prominent at the leaf sheaths. The leaves are broad, deeply lobed and serrated, and can reach a massive 1.5m (5ft) in width. Large umbrella shaped heads of flowers appear in late spring to mid summer and can grow up to 1m across, with up to 50 clusters of tiny white, 5 petalled flowers.
Been telling people this for years. It always surprises me that councils allow it to grow around areas where children, families and dog walkers inhabit. One would think they would have a special task force in each council to tackle this plant.
@@jessicasinclair323 I’ve worked with specialist teams that eradicate giant hog weed unfortunately as with most councils I don’t think they prioritise the eradication because as usual it’s cost luckily I don’t think they are very prolific I’ve not seen one for years
@@mattgoodchild8215 good to know that there are specialist teams at work on it. Unfortunately here in Staffordshire it is rife. There are literally thousands of them blocking walking trails through many greenspaces making it virtually impossible to enjoy for half the year. Sadly, I think it'll take the horrific injuries sustained from this plant on someone's child for anything to be done about them
Contact your local council too, they're technically supposed to remove it for safety reasons, but even just putting up warning signs or taping it off can help stop people and pets getting hurt
Giant Hogweedcontains a high concentration of several potent linear furanocoumarins, including psoralen, bergapten, and xanthotoxin. These compounds are responsible for the plant's severe phototoxic reactions, leading to intense skin burns, blisters, and long term sensitivity to sunlight - in some cases this can last for many years! Furanocoumarins are produced by many plants in the Apiacea (carrot family) as a defense mechanism against predators such as insects and mammals, but the severity of reactions to Giant hogweed sap is primarily due to the high levels and potency of the linear furanocoumarins, which cause more damage compared to other plants that might contain lower concentrations / less potent types of furanocoumarins.
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Giant hogweed can grow to almost 6m in ideal climates (19ft) but is more commonly seen in the UK standing at around 4m (13ft) It has a thick hollow bright green stem with dark red or purple spots/streaks and coarse spiny hairs which are more prominent at the leaf sheaths. The leaves are broad, deeply lobed and serrated, and can reach a massive 1.5m (5ft) in width.
Large umbrella shaped heads of flowers appear in late spring to mid summer and can grow up to 1m across, with up to 50 clusters of tiny white, 5 petalled flowers.
Superb Danni 🌻🌱
Been telling people this for years. It always surprises me that councils allow it to grow around areas where children, families and dog walkers inhabit. One would think they would have a special task force in each council to tackle this plant.
@@jessicasinclair323 I’ve worked with specialist teams that eradicate giant hog weed unfortunately as with most councils I don’t think they prioritise the eradication because as usual it’s cost luckily I don’t think they are very prolific I’ve not seen one for years
@@mattgoodchild8215 good to know that there are specialist teams at work on it. Unfortunately here in Staffordshire it is rife. There are literally thousands of them blocking walking trails through many greenspaces making it virtually impossible to enjoy for half the year. Sadly, I think it'll take the horrific injuries sustained from this plant on someone's child for anything to be done about them
Contact your local council too, they're technically supposed to remove it for safety reasons, but even just putting up warning signs or taping it off can help stop people and pets getting hurt
...in the Hogwart's locker room, Slytherin replaced the Hufflepuff broomsticks with hogweed, but they didn't fall for it...
Haha really?
@@danniinthewild 😉Just a bit of creative license.
Thank you for the warning about such a dire plant!
That's insane how it evolved to damage DNA like that, crazy!
music so serene but shes describing the most tereifying poisonous plant consequences ive heard this month
😂 so happy you spotted that, my favourite fight scenes in films are always brutal slo mos with the classical music playing over the top 🤣
@@danniinthewildI live in east us so and I've not seen this plant here before but its still good to know. Thank you for your educational video!
Giant Hogweedcontains a high concentration of several potent linear furanocoumarins, including psoralen, bergapten, and xanthotoxin. These compounds are responsible for the plant's severe phototoxic reactions, leading to intense skin burns, blisters, and long term sensitivity to sunlight - in some cases this can last for many years!
Furanocoumarins are produced by many plants in the Apiacea (carrot family) as a defense mechanism against predators such as insects and mammals, but the severity of reactions to Giant hogweed sap is primarily due to the high levels and potency of the linear furanocoumarins, which cause more damage compared to other plants that might contain lower concentrations / less potent types of furanocoumarins.
My mum ended up burning her arm with one while clearing scrubland. Her skin looked like spam, it was brutal
I apologize for my previous comment, thank you for this video. I should have done my due diligence!
i'm scared to touch one!!
thanks for spreading awareness about the plant...
Thanks for watching!
Parsnip sap can elicit a similar effect.
Absolutely! Parsnips gave me a tanned forearm for 8 months lol
@@danniinthewild I still get blisters 3 years after strumming some down.
Thanks danni!
Thanks for watching!
Superb … you’ve got to admit what an incredible plant I’ve seen a few along the Avon amazing for our bees 🐝
Cheers Danni 🍻🌻🌱🍄
Absolute stunner!
Yo I know a place where giant hogweed is Causewayhead stirling covered In it
Thank you 😊
Thanks for watching Zoe!
Great video!
Thanks mr max!!!
Did you really say seven years ?
Devils club in alaska.
Is that the common name there?
@danniinthewild yes. I'm pretty sure its the same plant.
All over Latvia and Belarus. Everyone knows about it there i.e stay the f away from it.