My Bad Romance With A Bad, Bad Plant

I recall the first meter I catch Giant Hogweed ( Heracleum mantegazzianum ) . I was driving down a one - way street in the heart of nowhere … I literally backed up and drove back and forth 3 times so that I could oogle those enceinte leaves , elephantine umbrella of flower … I like ’em marvellous and , oh boy , at over 10′ this bad boy towers over the residual of them .

It ’s like anAngelica gigashad a insane matter with aGunnera manicataand this is their lil ’ unsafe sexual love small fry .

.What ready Giant Hogweed so high-risk ? Well , his blackjack will actually cause you to burn and bleb , it could even cause blindness . Scars can last for year . Okay , so that does sound really bad … But he ’s just commence such charm other than that , you get it on what I mean ?

When I used to covet this industrial plant from afar , I thought of parking on the wayside , compile seminal fluid and bulge a spoiled romance of my own in my back yard . But I always chickened out .

peculiar how things come true . Now that skin - burn down roadside pot are what I DON’T want around my tiny Jedi , I have a yard full of them . I ’ll be severing the roots with the globe ’s longest excavator as before long as I get up the guts .

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