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"Marion Doran" writes:
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| just to say rue can give some people bad blisters if the sap gets on the
| skin in sunshine. When it happened to me, the GP showed me a handbook for
| army medics; it had giant hogweed and rue on the longish list of Plants You
| Shouldn't Let Your Chaps Camp Among, along with photos demonstrating the
| resulting blisters on military torsos and biceps.
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| I still grow lots of rue, and avoid the problem OK by taking the cuttings on
| a cloudy day (and of course having a wash before the sun comes out again!)

Ditto all of the sumachs (including Cotinus coggygria), periwinkles,
hops (though the juicy+abrasive window is short) and many others.
Yes, it is a longish list - and that's just the one for Europe!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
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