Plant that can cause blindless spotted in Eastern Ontario

[KMFJD]

It's around our area as well

 

[Imp]

Nope. I had poison ivy; and the goats ate that all up. At one point, I read that goats could eat hogweed. I've seen more articles since - the goats, just like humans, will have problems. They're somewhat protected by their hair - sunlight doesn't get to the skin and cause the reaction as badly. But, it's still bad for goats. And, I'd imagine, cows and pigs, though some people will allow them to eat it.

If it were me, I'd spray that crap with glyphosate. It's the perfect herbicide (I think) for it. It kills it right down into the root.

Wonder if it "salts" the earth where it dies like touching the soil where it decomposed would still mess you up.

 

[Iron Woode]

Nope. I had poison ivy; and the goats ate that all up. At one point, I read that goats could eat hogweed. I've seen more articles since - the goats, just like humans, will have problems. They're somewhat protected by their hair - sunlight doesn't get to the skin and cause the reaction as badly. But, it's still bad for goats. And, I'd imagine, cows and pigs, though some people will allow them to eat it.

If it were me, I'd spray that crap with glyphosate. It's the perfect herbicide (I think) for it. It kills it right down into the root.

my memory must have failed me.

sorry about that DrPizza.

 

[olds]

Can you smoke it?

 

[pete6032]

This "news" article is from 2010. Four and a half years ago.

 

[flexy]

I live in Europe almost all my life and we seem too have it here, I never heard about this plant before. Reading on Wikipedia etc. it sounds like out of a horror movie. The size compared to a human...at first I really thought this is a joke post but it's real.
Mind. Blown.

 

[local]

WTF? Declare war on this plant, also Emerald Ash Borers.

 

[WelshBloke]

were it one 'o dem triffids?

That it were.
(I wish you could embed sounds in posts, the noise of those things used to give me nightmares as a kid.)

 

[William Gaatjes]

were it one 'o dem triffids?

That name does sound vaguely familiar. The BBC used to broadcast all these old horror movies in the seventies and eighties.