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  • From: Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Alert: Risk of injury, possibly serious, from giant hogweed plant. Video and documents.
  • Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:58:41 -0500

Does Toby have any comments on this plant? - LL

Seems to be a problem in Canada and Northern US.

This video says that serious skin blistering, permanent skin damage
and discoloring, blindness (if in contact with eyes) and increased
risk of cancer
can result from contact with the sap in giant hogweed (never heard of
it before this news). This is worse than poison ivy, if that is
possible.

 Alert: Risk of injury from giant hogweed. Video and documents.
http://www2.worksafebc.com/Publications/Multimedia/Videos.asp?ReportID=34980

or the YouTube lowerres version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQ9P1preCGM
has many other videos on this subject

Well worth watching:
----------------------------
The Giant Hogweed Project
12+ mins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb8htP-11QU&feature=related
outlines a global control project involving generating a hogweed
location database
using GPS and volunteers




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