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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 ? |
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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 http://ywgc.com/resources/faq/cowparsnip.html -- Yard Works Gardening Co. http://ywgc.com/resources.html |
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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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from DrLith contains these words: 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) Get a life, both of you. Normal people are not scared or frightened of plants. Janet. |
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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. wrote in message ups.com... 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 ? |
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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 & 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. -paghat the ratgirl -- Get your Paghat the Ratgirl T-Shirt he http://www.paghat.com/giftshop.html "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot." -Thomas Jefferson |
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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. "Stephen Henning" wrote in message news (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 & 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. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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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!!! "lgb" wrote in message ... 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 |
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Venus Fly Trap - definitely!
Jeff Goldblum |
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"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. -- Pardon my spam deterrent; send email to Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA http://home.earthlink.net/~rhodyman |
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