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Giant hogweed
Heracleum mantegazzianum
Poisonous — do not eat it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
About
Heracleum mantegazzianum, commonly known as giant hogweed, is a monocarpic perennial herbaceous plant in the carrot family Apiaceae. H. mantegazzianum is also known as cartwheel-flower, giant cow parsley, giant cow parsnip, or hogsbane. In New Zealand, it is also sometimes called wild parsnip or wild rhubarb.
- Family
- Apiaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Heracleum mantegazzianum
- Slug
- heracleum-mantegazzianum
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Apiaceae
- Genus
- Heracleum
- Species
- mantegazzianum
- Wikidata QID
- Q826602
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 3
- Data completeness
- 43
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