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Old 09-05-2012, 08:07 AM
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If you want to encounter a plant with world domination tendencies,
allow me to send you some himalayan balsam seeds! Alchemilla is tame
(even comatose, indeed deceased) by comparison.
Himalayan balsam is a lot easier to pull up than Alchemilla mollis, which, by the time it has enough top growth to pull, already has a firmly embedded root system.
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