Common hogweed vs Giant Hogweed - UK Woodland Foraging 🌱
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- This week I introduce you to Giant Hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), on of the most dangerous plants in the UK.
This video is intended to act as a visual reference to help you avoid dangerous lookalikes when foraging for Common Hogweed (Heracleum Sphondylium). Always consult multiple trusted sources to ensure you have a correct identification before consuming any wild plant.
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More information on common hogweed identification:
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Giant hogweed facts:
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Some useful plant identification books:
Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants of Britain and Ireland - Robin Harford
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Food For Free - Richard Mabey
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The Forager's Calendar - John Wright
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Some amazing foraging channels:
Wild Food UK
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Coastal Foraging With Craig Evans
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Vincent Petit (Amazing videos)
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Totally Wild UK - Excellent regular content
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I'm glad you saw it there and identified it. I just went walking in Glacier National Park this year for the first time and all along my path the Gigant Hogweed was pervasive. Someone is going to get hurt there. Thanks for spreading the knowledge. You have a keen eye for plants.
Thanks for watching ✌🏻I would love to explore Glacier National Park
Argh, got one in my garden. Leaves are huuuge. I put a bag over the head last year, stop it spreading. It gets so tall too!
Oh no! Be very cautious if you try to remove it, the burns are no joke. Absolutely beautiful organism though
Great video! Packed full of information as always! 🔥
Thanks mate! Hopefully I’ll get another video out this week as well, but we’ll see if I get time to edit 🤞
@@Fieldstudy_ Can't wait!
Yew tree leaves, hemlock water dropwort etc., can kill you if you ingest them, but this plant can literally maim and kill you just by touching it, as you mentioned in your video. That fact makes this the deadliest plant in Britain, as far as I'm concerned. I'd definitely report that specimen you found too because it's located on an old footpath 2:29 .
Yep, will do!
Not everyone has a bad reaction to the Giant Hogweed. Years ago I found a patch, not knowing what it was I cut several twenty foot trunks with 2 foot plus flower heads down and hauled them back home, I hoisted them to the rafters where they hung for years as a decorative thing. I wore a sleeveless shirt, touched the hairs all over, no reaction.
Must of been common hogweed.
Hey Dude, came across your channel the other day, absolutely amazing stuff, just wanted to let you know that the topics you cover and therefore your channel are shadowbanned on youtube, which is probably why you still only have 1k subscribers and not 100k+ as you deserve and needs to be.. focus your channels marketing outside of youtube e.g grow an instagram page with some nice mushroom pictures and direct them over here, youll see a big growth improvement.. best of wishes and keep up the informative fieldstudy videos, I thoroughly enjoy em :D
Another fab video! Have you noticed, over the last few years... Some of the variations of common hogweed seem to be changing, almost as if they're looking more and more like they are attempting to mimic giant hogweed when young in the leaf? Or is that just me ? Haha.
Thankyou! And no I haven’t noticed that in my part of the world, I have noticed that plants in different locations will vary in size and leaf shape though.
I wonder whether it’s a genetic thing or an individual reaction to environmental conditions?
@@Fieldstudy_ I wondered the same.... So, it was a few years ago I first noticed one that the leaves looked quite amazingly like GH. Larger than usual and 'aggressive' looking (was deffo CH though). I do think this has made me pay more attention to the many variations of CH in the following years. I haven't noticed one quite as much of an imitator but have seen the odd few each year with simpler similarities. I'm going to go back to that first spot in a few weeks/month to see if I can grab a pic of its offspring for you haha! I lead foraging walks myself, I feel I align with your approach and perspectives more than I have any other forager. I feel you have a much more selfless approach, sharing to inspire caring kinda flex. Love it mate! Thank you
Excellent video presentation.
Thankyou 🙏
Why would they you tube shadow ban such important information that shoukd be in the public arena. 😒
What makes you think it’s Shadow Banned?
@Fieldstudy_ I was replying to a comment that said that it was , to you. They gave you advice on how to get more exposure. Saying your content was shadow banned ! 🤷♀️ I don't even know what it actually means 😆but I'm guessing , hidden from viewers , idk ! 🤔
Enjoying your content, and always looking to learn a bit more with each passing year. Towards the end from 6:12 onwards noticed a plant all around you, long leaf, I see it often here in Ireland but know nothing about. Would you have its ID and has it any foraging uses?
Not close enough to be sure but I think its an _Asplenium scolopendrium_ fern. Has been used medicinally and cosmetically but not eaten.
Yes indeed! As Pat said it’s asplenium scolopendrium or ‘Harts-tongue Fern’. Very common down here where I live 😀
Not an edible species to my knowledge, in fact modern science has found that many Fern species have mild carcinogenic properties so I tend to steer clear of them entirely nowadays.
Thanks for watching and if you have any other questions just give me a shout 🌱
Ha, was going to go out this weekend and do this vieo myself! Beat me to it 😂 Great as always.
Oh no! I’m sure yours will have much better detail, this was sort of an impromptu shoot
@@Fieldstudy_ Haha, nah, even an impromptu video from you will have heaps more information than anything I can currently produce. I'm very much a novice when it comes to plants, especially compared to you!
I'll do what I can to add my own spin, but when I do that video, i'll be sure to link yours in the card.
Is it true that common and giant hogweed can cross pollinate to produce a plant that looks like common hogweed but has the phototoxicity of giant hogweed?
Oof.... if this is true then that completely changes the game with common hogweed harvest/eating
@@skeetskeet4123 Yeah, which is why I suspect it's not true tbh.
This is paranoia...but I think this too haha 😅
Let's hear the opinion of a professional botanist!
But common hogweed is already phototoxic
I live in Fredericton New Brunswick Canada. Out back in the yard we have hogweed with small flowers, with green stem. Some have all brown stem. Are the brown stem hogweed dangerous
Sorry Bob, I’m not an expert in the plants that you guys have over there in Canada so I wouldn’t be able to comment. Probably best to check with some plant enthusiasts near you 🌿 all the best
@@Fieldstudy_ Thank you. I thought hogweed was the same thing in both countries
Good advice
Cheers Liz, hope you’re having a good week 😊
Is it just as dangerous at this stage in growth as it is when fully grown?
Its easy to identify from a distance when fully grown (obviously) and to keep kids away, but when it's this young it may not be.
Morning Matt! Yes I’m afraid the plant is still phototoxic at this early stage of growth, but it’s a great opportunity to teach your kids about plant identification and what to potentially avoid.
@@Fieldstudy_ unfortunately he's not at the point of comprehending things like that, but is fully capable of rampaging through the woods. Fortunately we can put a harness on him and he is somewhat accepting of it.
Thank you for the informative video and details on identification - most news articles show a photo without any scale reference and nothing else. :)
Is there such a thing called hogweed in Missouri
Hello Patricia, I’m not an expert in plants anywhere else but the uk, best to seek out a book on your local flora and research from there. All the best
Wow! Is so dangerous thank you for sharing ❤
Yeah, certainly a species to be mindful of. Objectively beautiful but very dangerous if you get too close 😬
Contact the local Council.