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Index of Subjects Hi again Lyse: Long ago as students in St. Andrews, Scotland, four of us used to live miles away near Crail, in a large flat rented at the top of a baronet's huge country house/mansion. The cost of maintaining such was/is very high, so you could rent such digs cheaply in those days if you had your own transport and could stand the lack of heating. I slept in a 15th century Dutch 4-poster bed with a scarily carved headboard. On the walk down to the sea, the extensive grounds had a large, tall stand of Giant Hogweed, the sap of which we were warned back then would cause nasty burns, as Ulli says. The point of this otherwise irrelevant information is that your post caused me to look up 'Giant Hogweed' on Wikipedia just now. If you do the same, and enlarge the first picture there (which is quite a good one), it says that it is available for public use -- 'copy, distribute ... under GNU Free Documention...' etc. Maybe this would solve your problem? The pic obviously was not taken in the Maritimes, probably in the Netherlands, but I guess GH is GH, and it was imported into Canada from its original home in central Asia anyway, probably via Europe. Perhaps the botanists on here know more about its likely ancestry? Steve (Halifax) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Quoting Lyse Boyce <lyseboyce@yahoo.ca>: > Hi there, > > I'm looking for photos of giant hogweed from the martimes to use to > illustrate a wilderness first aid handbook for the Red Cross. If > anyone has some that they would like to contribute please let me know. > > Thank you, > > Lyse
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