Simon Avery wrote:
for an equine charity) I loathe it more than most. It's also poisonous
to humans, if you pick or handle it without gloves, it'll get into
your system (after causing burns on sensitive skins) and leads to
progressive liver failure.

Do you have evidence for this as when we enquired of DEFRA about it
they said that as far as they knew it was harmless to touch and pull
it. I'm pretty sure it has to be ingested to do harm.

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Chris Green )