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Old 19-06-2018, 06:04 PM posted to va.politics,sac.politics,can.politics,uk.rec.gardening,alt.society.liberalism
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Default Giant British / Canadian Horror Plant That Causes 3rd Degree Burns Has Spread to Yet Another US State

"Bradley K. Shurman" wrote in message
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https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=hema17

The closely related H. sosnowskyi species, discovered in Georgia in the
1930s, was brought into the Soviet Union for growing as cattle feed. These
days, it is by far the scariest plant you could find in the Baltic States
and Poland, where it's considered highly invasive.


It's all a Capitalist plot ;-)