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[Nomadicus]

Some kids never grow up...

 

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From the FL Archives. Air conditioning ruined all of this. Early FL settlers had to be tough and rattlesnake resistant.

Those early settlers in hot areas built to help interiors stay cool though too. The buildings we make now days trap heat rather then keep it out. Thin walls versus thick and no thought into create breeze flow to help heat escape. All this talk of global warming and the need to reduce energy consumption...energy supply problems during peak hours etc etc. But I don't hear any talk about the need to build homes like we used to. Ones that don't require high energy use to be livable.

 

[Pasha838]

Sosnovsky's hogweed. This dill-like plant can reach a height of up to 5 m. In Russia, in some circles, it is considered almost a natural disaster, because it grows and spreads quite actively, while its juice and even smell have a very negative effect on some people - severe burns with blisters appear on the skin, and the affected person develops a fever.

For some reason, this plant is friendly to me - for many years I have been walking through these thickets, I have been able to tear this plant and get dirty with its juice - there is no reaction. Apparently, some people are immune. Goats also have no problem with this plant, sometimes they even eat it. Although it is tasteless and smelly.
And this is an angelica. It looks like a cow parsnip, but lower, usually reaches a height of no more than 3,5 meters, although it has the same umbrellas as dill. This plant is not dangerous, children sometimes make pipes from its hollow stems to honk into them or tubes to spit cherry pits.

 

[DaisyG2317]

My broody Isa Brown Gracie with her latest batch of babies from Meyer: a Frizzle, a Salmon Faverolles, and (not seen) a Black Copper Marans

 

[cavemanrich]

Sosnovsky's hogweed. This dill-like plant can reach a height of up to 5 m. In Russia,

We have something similar with similar reactions. Called Wild Parsnip. I stay away from it a distance, Don't want to find out I'm allergic/affected by this plant.
It only grows to average 1 meter height.

 

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[Pasha838]

We have something similar with similar reactions. Called Wild Parsnip. I stay away from it a distance, Don't want to find out I'm allergic/affected by this plant.
It only grows to average 1 meter height.

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It's probably this plant. It is also found here, it is considered poisonous, although it is apparently not very poisonous here, because local goats often eat it without consequences. Although the Internet writes that if a human eats this plant, then he can get poisoned.
The only thing that confuses me is the color of the umbrellas - the local flowers are white, and yours are yellow.

They also grow here, they are quite low, no more than 70 cm tall, this grass is clearly edible. Up to the point that some local enthusiasts make salads and soups out of it.

They differ in the shape of the leaves, and outwardly the umbrellas are very similar. Only some are so poisonous that you can eat and die, while others are edible, although I would not say that they are very tasty.

I also read about them, they write that their toxicity depends on the region of growth. In some regions, they are pronouncedly poisonous, in some they are even edible.

A five-meter grass was cultivated back in the USSR, they were fond of it because it had large leaves, they hoped to feed cows with it. But it turned out to be absolutely tasteless and generally unsuitable for cows. After that, these works were abandoned, and then this grass began to grow anywhere, spreading mainly near the roads.

Over time, she occupied all the wastelands and roadsides, and when she began to climb into the fields, then she was declared harmful. The key problem is that some people have very severe burns from it and it is problematic to mow it.

 

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Leaf sheep sea slug

 

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Bunny seas slugs

 

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Pikachu seas slugs