Lovely shot of the tiny flowers of a Giant Hogweed in the last year of its' life - they are monocarpic and so die after they've set seed. My kids used to call them Triffids, partly because of their height and partly because we regularly passed a grass verge where a couple grew, each year they seemed to come up a little further down the road, almost as if, like Wyndham's Triffids, they were walking slowly.

Ken Thomas wrote:
> Lovely shot of the tiny flowers of a Giant Hogweed in the last year of its' life - they are
> monocarpic and so die after they've set seed. My kids used to call them Triffids, partly
> because of their height and partly because we regularly passed a grass verge where a couple
> grew, each year they seemed to come up a little further down the road, almost as if, like
> Wyndham's Triffids, they were walking slowly.
>


thanx Ken.... these plants are very posonous... it feels like being bitten by an army of ants

Too bad I can't copy paste the latin name from the images to search it, it takes me forever to switch form one page to the next trying to copy it into a search engine a few letters at a time. I can only copy the Netherlands name at the top of the image.

This appears to be related to our Cow Parsnip, which like all plants with white milky sap can cause dermatitis scaring, though the indigenous people use to prepare the roots to make them edible.
This plant, the Water Hemlock, Poison Hemlock and Water Parsley all have similar yet very different flowers, the Poison Hemlock actually have seperate Ovaries, verses these fused double ovaries.

Scott Peden wrote:
> Too bad I can't copy paste the latin name from the images to search it, it takes me forever
> to switch form one page to the next trying to copy it into a search engine a few letters at
> a time. I can only copy the Netherlands name at the top of the image.
>
> This appears to be related to our Cow Parsnip, which like all plants with white milky sap
> can cause dermatitis scaring, though the indigenous people use to prepare the roots to make
> them edible.
> This plant, the Water Hemlock, Poison Hemlock and Water Parsley all have similar yet very
> different flowers, the Poison Hemlock actually have seperate Ovaries, verses these fused double ovaries.
>


Scott... will it help you if I add the latin name into the ttitle of the image ??