I would be grateful if one could identify if this plant is the poisonous giant hogweed.
I don't think that's any sort of hogweed, or anything else in that family.
Looks like a thistle or echinops
Yes, I agree with Nut ... not hogweed .... most likely an echinops.
I agree with them.
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That's reassuring Hosta
We don't eat poisonous potato seeds, rhubarb leaves and daffodils either ... many plants are poisonous
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One wonders how the human race has survived so long with all these killers loose in our gardens.
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I don't think that's any sort of hogweed, or anything else in that family.
Looks like a thistle or echinops
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes, I agree with Nut ... not hogweed .... most likely an echinops.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I agree with them.
Last edited: 16 June 2017 12:51:08
That's reassuring Hosta
We don't eat poisonous potato seeds, rhubarb leaves and daffodils either ... many plants are poisonous
Last edited: 16 June 2017 12:54:18
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
One wonders how the human race has survived so long with all these killers loose in our gardens.