Young Giant Hogweed Identification, Heracleum mantegazzianum
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- Опубликовано: 13 мар 2017
- Very Dangerous Young Giant Hogweed. By www.wildfooduk.com
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Best identification and explanation I've seen on giant hogweed..
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge
Just got rid of this highly poisonous plant in my garden using extreme caution. Thank you Marlow for making us aware because so many people have no idea of it's dangers. I met Eric when he was up in Scotland foraging and bought your book. Love your videos too.
A news story came across my feed about a man riding his bike through a Giant hogweed infested trail in Vancouver BC. He was white blinded for a few hours, and afterwards, the big golf ball size blisters formed on his head and hands. Thank you for this video, very informative. Now I know what to look for.
Very useful to have a literal side by side comparison and at different growth stages
Yes, the smaller it is, the harder to distinguish. Giant hogweed in its first year is often quite small.
Thankyou for sharing your knowledge.
A great pity I didn't know about this a few years back when I drove over one with a lawnmower [repeatedly!] and got bits of it all over my legs - the burns were horrendous! About 4 years later I still have some of the scars. Thanks for the excellent video, I have a ton of cow parsley in the garden but am still very vary about going anywhere near it in case there's another giant hogweed lurking among them! - The burns are unbelievably painful, and it looks horrific with the weeping blisters and the swelling.
Goodness- thanks for sharing the cautionary tale though I'm sorry you experienced this.
That sounds horrific
How are you doing now after a couple more years?
Great info again Marlowe, thank you
Love your videos, thank your for giving your knowledge and will to demonstrate it all.
Excellent attention to detail and very descriptive. Best video on RUclips concerning the dangers! Well done Matey 😁
I had absolutely no idea that the effects were so long lasting :S
Thanks for this video. Very informative, and it'll stop me worrying too much whenever I come across common hogweed in the future. Thanks, also, for letting people know that they can report the location of giant hogweed to the authorities :)
Hugely helpful. Thank you!
Thanks very much , I'll be showing grandkids this.
Thanks for sharing this I loved your video
Hello Marlow. Nasty stuff. When I was a 12 year old we used to go swimming in the River Ribble in Penwortham. Mum would take us down for a picnic by the river. Being kids, my brother and I found these giant plants that we found fascinating and we bent them and climbed them. We thought it was fun snapping them over. We got home later that night and started to get blisters all over our arms and legs. Water blisters the size of golf balls. Mum had to take us to hospital where we were treated to cool the blistering down. It was painful. A burning sensation that lasted for days. We were also scarred for over a year. It's lethal stuff and should be dealt with when found.
Awesome video! I had trouble identifying the different kinds of hogweed when they are still young. Wish I knew this before I got burned by one!
very interesting Marlow !
this guy rules. great vid
Giant hogweed as well as wild parsnip ( different from cow parsnip ) are so dangerous because most people have no idea. This should be taught in schools as I worry about young children playing around them
Thanks Marlow!
This particular species of plant have really got me into the study of plant life/botany. Hopefully I'll start studying towards a biology degree in the coming years months to learn more about the heracleum genus.
Good, now learn how to kill off the bloody menace.
Excellent video. I am staying well clear of any types of hogweed just in case 😜
interesting video! I am a tree trimmer living in Florida. I have just recently read that giant hogweed has been found in West Virginia, and about the dangers of the sap, causing blisters and possibly blinding you if you get it in your eyes! So thank you for posting this information! hopefully I never come across it
It seems to be across much of North America now. My theory is that vehicles can spread it, since the seeds are flat - they can survive being run over and also end up sticking to mud, cobwebs etc on a car, lorry or train.
Good educational video.
Thanks for the info, I do a lot of foraging here in BC, Canada and giant hogweed is around, buddy of mine got burned bad. Cheers!
Thanks for this, very handy as we have lots of common hogweed here and I was fearful it was giant stuff.
It's not easy to tell apart. The giant stuff has a life cycle of a couple of years or more before sending up a flower... But in the second year the leaves get big, talking about longer than your arm... Even more so than ordinary hogweed.
Ordinary hogweed can get taller than a person... In the case of giant hogweed it can reach twenty feet tall... The size of a tree!
Giant Hogweed aslo grows beside the Lee Navigation, downstream of Broxbourne, in the Lee Valley. Massive ammounts of it opposite side to the tow-path.
I have been studying and growing hogweed for a while now. If you are interested I can share some of my studies and findings with you
Please share your knowledge and tips how to handle it! Do you have a page in social media?
Thanks! It is so difficult looking at photos, I have one or the other near the stream I will have to check now before it gets big. Scary stuff dam plant being in Canada I also have some poison ivy to remove but I do not want to use roundup as it is so toxic to everything. I moved to Canada from England and am still figuring out all the dam toxic plants, poison ivy is even worse than hogweed as it looks like all the plants in the garden and there are different leaves for the same plant. Oh the nasty spiders, mosquitos, black flies, giant centipedes and now black-legged deer ticks which carry Lyme disease lol I think I need a hazmat suit to do the garden :(
All you British/English gents sound so formal and well composed 🌝
If your English you are British
Some found in kirkstall Leeds in June 2019.
Wow
im still finding lots of common hogweed in january in the uk
In western Washington, Giant Hogweed was found in fields where no stream or any water was around. Here in the states we are told that both common and Giant Hogweed are poisonous. Perhaps a Common Hogweed refers to a different plant in Britain?
Does anyone realize that Genesis has a song called, 'The Return of the Giant Hogweed?'
Yes and i just made a video using that very song with footage i took of the plant, plus another video about hogweed in good humour, they are both in my recent uploads from July 2019 on my channel on here
Can't stand either of them.
yup, Peter Gabriel
Super balade and true story. Love it.
It helps to revisit this video and to have gone over it again on your course. I am not 100% certain I haven't come across younger stems of it. Do you get much variation of common hogweed? Some I have seen were a little pointer and more maple/sycamore shaped almost, and brighter green in colour as well. I wondered if this is something to be alarmed about or if shoots can look a little pointer before the leaves have completely opened (and taken on that duller, hairier appearance on the top of the leaf). That giant hogweed stems are still a bit hairy, when younger at least, I'll also be sure to keep in mind, I'll keep an eye out for those small red spots. During summer would you tend to just harvest the thick stems and cook like asparagus? I first cooked hogweed in summer but the leaves weren't particularly pleasant and rather tough. I take it the stems are still recommended even then.
Common Hogweed is incredibly vairable, and can have red spots on the stem too. The stem of giant hogweed is very hairy, particularly around the leaf joints. It's the leaves that are much less hairy. Re Common Hogweed. As you say, the mature plants leaves and stem are tough. I only go for any very young leaves that haven't opened properly yet. Then the flower buds before the flowers open in summer from common hogweed :)
I tried a few recently (what few I could find in late spring), the best way to eat it though I am guessing you can continue to just cook the stems like asparagus and avoid the leaves altogether through the Summer (this is when I tried them last year I think). I have noticed purple spots on my angelica even, so it's not always a bad sign. I'd still avoid it in the wild though to be safe. In the end when I was a bit unsure about some younger and slightly shinier pointier leaves, the obvious thing to do really is to see what it's attached to. I am still doubtful that I have ever come across giant hogweed, but still can't be too careful with it I suppose.
Does it harm people with higher levels of melanin?
7 years! Wow
Great video and excellent information. Can ordinary hogweed stems be red/purple?
yes, it is a very variable plant in both stem colour and leaf shape.
Please make a video on dangerous garden bugs and caterpillar thanks
Are those the same as stingy nettles?
Nope theyre a million times worse! Nettles have these little hairs on them which sting you but the pain and itch is pretty temporarily and only really hurts for a couple minutes and fades away. Giant hogweed sap basically makes your skin very susceptible to UV damage. If you touch giant hogweed then go in the sun the part where you contacted the hogweed will probably become covered in horrifyingly bad blisters and burns within a couple days. It can also get in your eyes and make you blind. I would never even go near one of these things they sound like some plant from hell
How to remove the plant effectively?
"Report it to DERFA"LOL There's acres of it in my area Angus Scotland and has been for decades, nothing is done about it.
I agree with you. But it would be SEPA in Scotland.
Would it not be an idea for a bounty payment per plant to assist eradication, giving details eastings/northings of location to
assist follw-up inspections perhaps, or central database of worst locations. Seems railway embankments are a favoured haunt
of Giant Hogweed. After three-year eradication programme, we could then issue fines for this menace of a plant, whether found
on public or private land. It seems we are always clearing up the Victorians mess.
I can't see the difference between hogweed & young giant hogweed. I'll try to avoid both.
OMG I still find it impossible to tell the sapling of giant hogweed from less dangerous hogweed, they are basically identical.
Hard to tell apart when younger. Easy when they're a bit older.
@Whisper-that truth-shss Most plants do, e.g. nettles, dandelions, certain veg. I can tell them apart to some extent, but not enough to harvest them. Giant Hogweed tends to leave massive stalks lying around from the previous year... That's one giveaway.
I notice the giant hogweed here which is either flowering or about to flower, varies in height from three or four foot (middle height for the smaller hogweed) up to nearly twenty. When it grows in clusters, it tends to get as big as small trees and has leaves which are much bigger than hogweed. The small hogweed occasionally produces largish leaves (about a foot across) and the flowering stem varies from about a foot up to five or six feet. So there is even some overlap in mature size.
I think this guy's description of giant hogweed seedlings looking like sycamore is pretty accurate. It usually takes at least a couple of years for it to decide to flower (longer in some cases.
@Whisper-that truth-shss It's normally a good idea to see what's growing nearby. Giant Hogweed often grows near or on rivers but can spread from them especially on roads and railways. You get isolated specimens of both but they tend to form colonies.
I have seen the two plants growing together, but usually a good idea to get to know an area over a period of a year or two. Some of the wee hogweed does grow taller than me but not as often.
Leaves of wee hogweed tend to have more rounded lobes. Giant stuff has the sycamore shape (and it's really like sycamore). Another tip is that if you have an area with mown grass, the giant stuff will send up wee leaves fairly quickly, even in its first year. It's a much more aggressive grower. I think when it reaches knee height you begin to get a good idea.
There are some differences in the hairs on the stalks but this varies between individuals.
I'm getting a sense of it. Like I say, local knowledge is a good thing. You'll tend to know in a year or two what is growing where.
@Whisper-that truth-shss Wild garlic species are worth looking into. There are three types in the UK and one's an Asian invasive so you're doing a favour by harvesting it.
I also "stock" some hedgerows and borders round here. A lot of sterile town gardening. I've introduced rasps and brambles into some spots and they're easy to identify.
Is hogweed good for anything? Getting pigs stoned? lmao
Tell me there scientific name , common name and family plzz
Heracleum mantegazzianum, Giant Hogweed, Carrot family
Giant Hogweed are everywhere in the UK. Not just near water. I see them everywhere in the Alps as well. Russia has a huge problem because they genetically modified them to make them even bigger to feed livestock with.
Very informative video! Is the Giant Hogweed edible too? I'm aware of the danger of the plant but if it was carefully harvested and prepared would it be the same end result as common Hogweed?
Some livestock can eat it apparently. I don't know why they aren't used to control it more.
I WOULD NOT touch it at all to be honest with you, as great as it sounds to take the 'if you can't beat it, eat it' approach.
@@SobrietyandSolace Correct, don't touch it, let alone eat it.
I believe black faced sheep can eat younger leaves... Probably goats... They have to be dark skinned apparently due to UV poison.
Defra seem to have forgotten my area.
Can you believe in a foraging group im in a lady has been encouraged to keep one growing in her garden and one person has said its safe to eat
Love the information in your video’s, but would really appreciate if your camera person held the camera still for long enough to see the plants close-up without getting dizzy.
report it. its everywhere
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What might happen to someone if they ate some giant hogweed?
Theres a Vid on YT, about the TEN most poisonous Plants, in Britain, growing wild and common. It might be this guy's, not sure. When I think about me and my brother's, as kids in the early 50's, running through wild woods and fields, with bare legs and arms in Summer, it's a miracle we didn't get poisoned by these, AND TICKS.
Well there aren't that many phototoxic plants that'll harm you when touched. I still run around the woods with bare legs and arms. :D
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Not true about Giant Hogweed mostly being near water. It is very common along motorway and railway embankments... I've an idea that the draught from vehicles helps spread the seeds. In fact "public" land like that is one of the worst places for it. Councils and Railtrack etc seem to have little interest in eradicating it.
There's loads around the commons in Bushy all along the fenceline by the roadside- agree with your theory
@@SobrietyandSolace I also wonder if seeds get stuck on wheels or parts of vehicles. It certainly explains the plants' rapid spread through UK more than just gardeners. There are a lot of patches in remote parts of north east Scotland probably started that way.
Apparently it only needs one individual to germinate... It can self-pollinate and then it can produce tens of thousands of seeds.
@@SobrietyandSolace The fact the seeds are flat is probably inadvertantly an evolutionary advantage... It was supposed to help them float downstream but it has ended up meaning seeds can be run over by cars and still be viable.
Out by my nans about 4 years ago I almost caught myself touching a young gaint hogweed I'm pretty sure is gaint hogweed by my nans purple splotches around the steam but is not 14 meters tall is about 6 or 8 meters tall it keeps growing by the river at nans and by her potato patch is well Nan potato patch is close to the river is well
What's eating it, let's give it the job.
The dreaded 7 year itch....
is Common Hogweed actually called "Cows Parsnip"?????? ;p;p;p
God didn’t create this plant surely! It’s too evil! 😱. Great vid, thanks.
I got burned by this plant all over my body. The blister on my foot was the size of a golfball maybe bigger
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Anon B it was so sketch. Had to be inside for 11 days straight in the dark. By day 6 my whole leg was purple and I thought I was gonna have to get that shit amputated. Went to 7 different doctors before one found out what it was...
@@bmx28kenilworth I was lucky that when I was a boy around eleven or so, my mother warned me about it. We had moved to a new place and I pointed out these big leaves down the hill which I thought looked weird and prehistoric. My mother told me exactly what it was and I kept well away from it and we had it removed. She told me about how it gives you a burn that last for years!
There was a river bank a field away from our garden than became a grove of this stuff. It was like an army of Triffids. One day these people in protection suits came and took it down. They looked like space men!
But a lot of people don't know it. There is a lot on public footpaths near me and folk are jogging and cycling with bare legs past it. They're lucky they don't end up like you did.
Anon B yeah i sadly got burned by the plant in the only (tiny) spot it grows in the southern part of the US.... literally was the first reported case in that area since 1979. It’s been about 3 years since I got burned and the scar has almost completely faded. But I do get burning sensations when I wear long socks and am out in the sun all day.
Anon B I have told everyone I know about this plant. And try to comment on it whenever I see it online. I don’t wish that pain on anyone... it was terrible. The worst pain I’ve ever felt. And I blow glass for a living. I burn myself everyday. But that was unlike anything else. It was a building pain that lasted about a week. Every day, it got worse and worse. Until I decided to go to the doctor. Docs couldn’t figure it out. Ended up seeing 6 or 7.
It seems a shame that this young man did not carry a bottle of herbicide with him so he could get rid of at ĺeast some of it
Spraying herbicide is a very bad idea. That'll kill every plant, not only the "bad" one.
At the very least report the find tou your local Council and then make sure they have safely removed the plant! You will be doing someone a huge favour!
I think I'll stay away from anything like them. They look too similar when young. Ireland. There are loads of this type of plant around the parkland I walk in. But I can't be sure. It could be the giant one growing. Thanks v much. I was look I g for yarrow last month but picked something else. Maybe cow parsley. White unwell flowers like this. I made tea with the leaves. Didn't kill me but.......
I found yarrow yesterday. Just a small bit. Feathery leaves
I love the giant hogweed it serve a good purpose.
I know WHERE a hogweed grows should i kill it
If it is common Hogweed then no. If it is Giant Hogweed then it depends where it is growing. If it is on private land then it is the landowners responsibility but it must be done with extreme caution as it is such a dangerous plant, some tips can be found here www.cornwall.gov.uk/media/3628256/giant-hogweed1.pdf though it may be best to get professionals to do it. If it is on common land then you need to report it to DEFRA and they will remove it.
Dont looks gigant to me!!
Misnomers are a bitch. Hog weed and giant hog are entirely different. Scientists are definitely not good at naming plants.
In german it's even worse. Hog weed is called "Wiesen Bärenklau", Giant Hogweed is called "Riesen Bärenklau". One different letter, lol.
@@antifantastisch4467 thanks for the reply. I learned something new.
I'm gonna send a batch to my ex.