What plants scare you the most and why ?
 

Even though you may admire still them, what plants (that you've either
seen, or so far just read about) 'scare' you the most (however you
define that) and please say why, for any one/s named ?

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:05:43 -0700, cyan999 wrote:

Even though you may admire still them, what plants (that you've either
seen, or so far just read about) 'scare' you the most (however you define
that) and please say why, for any one/s named ?

Heracleum lanatum
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On 28 Jun 2005 17:05:43 -0700, wrote:

Even though you may admire still them, what plants (that you've either
seen, or so far just read about) 'scare' you the most (however you
define that) and please say why, for any one/s named ?

see

http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/nurspest...ve_species.htm

Timothy wrote in message news:1120008872.99aae12f89a0984d87686f3fb4199c06@ teranews...
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:05:43 -0700, cyan999 wrote:

Even though you may admire still them, what plants (that you've either
seen, or so far just read about) 'scare' you the most (however you define
that) and please say why, for any one/s named ?

The North American Satan Bush!
this is truly an evil Bush totally obnoxious and highly invasive, a
threat to all life on earth!

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Even though you may admire still them, what plants (that you've either
seen, or so far just read about) 'scare' you the most (however you
define that) and please say why, for any one/s named ?

I'm scared of poison ivy for the obvious reasons. And giant hogweed just
frightens the bejeebus out of me. (Heracleum mantegazzianum)

Get a life, both of you. Normal people are not scared or frightened
of plants.

Janet.

What kind of question is that supposed to be?

There are many spiny and poisonous plants in the world that one should be
wary of but being scared of them is silly.


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Even though you may admire still them, what plants (that you've either
seen, or so far just read about) 'scare' you the most (however you
define that) and please say why, for any one/s named ?

In article , DrLith
wrote:

wrote:
Even though you may admire still them, what plants (that you've either
seen, or so far just read about) 'scare' you the most (however you
define that) and please say why, for any one/s named ?

I'm scared of poison ivy for the obvious reasons. And giant hogweed just
frightens the bejeebus out of me. (Heracleum mantegazzianum)

When I was staying with people who live in the redwoods, I was always
worried outside because the poison ivy was just EVERYwhere. There's
nothing worse than nettles where I live, & it's possible to get revenge on
nettles by frying them up with potatos &amp eating them, so there's never
any leeriness walkikng in the woods around PUget Sound. It was a strange
feeling in the redwoods to be worried about a plant.

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(paghat) wrote:

When I was staying with people who live in the redwoods, I was always
worried outside because the poison ivy was just EVERYwhere. There's
nothing worse than nettles where I live, & it's possible to get revenge on
nettles by frying them up with potatos &amp eating them, so there's never
any leeriness walkikng in the woods around PUget Sound. It was a strange
feeling in the redwoods to be worried about a plant.

Along the Snake River in Hell's Canyon, on the Oregon side there is a
plant that sounds exactly like a rattle snake when you walk through it.
I was with a forest service crew that was taken in to a fire by boat at
night. We had to hike from the river up to the fire at night while it
sounded like we were surrounded by rattle snakes. What made it worse
was that on the way in at dusk we had seen a diamond back rattler that
stretched all the way across a dirt road. He was BIG.

The plant may have been Perilla frutescens or Rattlesnake weed. After
blooming from July to October, they leave their calyx on the spike to
cover the seed pod, shake the dry seed stalks and it rattles like a
rattlesnake. Perilla is often confused with purple Basil and used for
the same purposes.

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The plant may have been Perilla frutescens or Rattlesnake weed.

Perilla frutescens is an Old World species. Are you saying native Americans
somehow got this plant from China to wrap ther sushi in it? Its introduction
into the New World flora as a weed was long after Columbus arrived.

I doubt it. Guess again.

There are a number of native American perennial legumes that have
rattle-box seed pods.


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(paghat) wrote:

When I was staying with people who live in the redwoods, I was always
worried outside because the poison ivy was just EVERYwhere. There's
nothing worse than nettles where I live, & it's possible to get revenge
on
nettles by frying them up with potatos &amp eating them, so there's never
any leeriness walkikng in the woods around PUget Sound. It was a strange
feeling in the redwoods to be worried about a plant.

Along the Snake River in Hell's Canyon, on the Oregon side there is a
plant that sounds exactly like a rattle snake when you walk through it.
I was with a forest service crew that was taken in to a fire by boat at
night. We had to hike from the river up to the fire at night while it
sounded like we were surrounded by rattle snakes. What made it worse
was that on the way in at dusk we had seen a diamond back rattler that
stretched all the way across a dirt road. He was BIG.

The plant may have been Perilla frutescens or Rattlesnake weed. After
blooming from July to October, they leave their calyx on the spike to
cover the seed pod, shake the dry seed stalks and it rattles like a
rattlesnake. Perilla is often confused with purple Basil and used for
the same purposes.

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Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA
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In article ,
says...

When I was staying with people who live in the redwoods, I was always
worried outside because the poison ivy was just EVERYwhere. There's
nothing worse than nettles where I live

Actually, you should have been scared of the redwoods. Branches shed
from the upper canopies of redwoods were known as "widow-makers" for a
reason :-).

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Thanks for the advice, Chicken Little!!!!

Be thankful there are no elephant birds and that the ones that did once
exist couldn't fly!!!


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In article ,
says...

When I was staying with people who live in the redwoods, I was always
worried outside because the poison ivy was just EVERYwhere. There's
nothing worse than nettles where I live

Actually, you should have been scared of the redwoods. Branches shed
from the upper canopies of redwoods were known as "widow-makers" for a
reason :-).

--
BNSF = Build Now, Seep Forever

On 28 Jun 2005 17:05:43 -0700, wrote:

Even though you may admire still them, what plants (that you've either
seen, or so far just read about) 'scare' you the most (however you
define that) and please say why, for any one/s named ?


Definitely Cereus....they'll definitely stick the ignorant....

Venus Fly Trap - definitely!
Jeff Goldblum

"Stephen Henning" wrote:
Along the Snake River in Hell's Canyon, on the Oregon side there is a
plant that sounds exactly like a rattle snake when you walk through it.
I was with a forest service crew that was taken in to a fire by boat at
night. We had to hike from the river up to the fire at night while it
sounded like we were surrounded by rattle snakes. What made it worse
was that on the way in at dusk we had seen a diamond back rattler that
stretched all the way across a dirt road. He was BIG.

The plant may have been Perilla frutescens or Rattlesnake weed. After
blooming from July to October, they leave their calyx on the spike to
cover the seed pod, shake the dry seed stalks and it rattles like a
rattlesnake. Perilla is often confused with purple Basil and used for
the same purposes.

"Cereus-validus....." wrote:

Perilla frutescens is an Old World species. Are you saying native Americans
somehow got this plant from China to wrap ther sushi in it? Its introduction
into the New World flora as a weed was long after Columbus arrived.

I doubt it. Guess again.

I am not native American, I didn't eat it, and this happened well into
the Columbian period after Scots broom had taken over the west.

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