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Can anyone identify this plant?
michaela_mundle
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Can anyone help me identify this plant/weed?
Many thanks
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Common Hogweed, Heracleum sphondylium
In the sticks near Peterborough
Looks like Heracleum sphondylium....common name hogweed.
A weed.
No not pretty!
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=heracleum+sphondylium&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCsrmitL3UAhVsCcAKHdqKDcsQ_AUICigB&biw=1536&bih=759
Last edited: 14 June 2017 14:12:45
Link...
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=heracleum+sphondylium&rlz=1C1GNAM_en-GBGB687GB687&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCsrmitL3UAhVsCcAKHdqKDcsQ_AUICigB&biw=1536&bih=759
pretty in the right place
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks so much ?
Definitely looks like me!
yeah, lovely hogweed
In the sticks near Peterborough
Common Hogweed - grows wild and free
Ammi majus - you have to buy seeds and sow them and grow them
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thankfully not Giant Hogweed. Don't be tempted to think if you like this you'll like the Giant version of it.
Google will tell you why.
If you decide not to keep it and considering strimming it down or pulling it up, wear protection as the sap can cause serious eye problems, skin irritation and even burns and blisters.