Giant hogweed: digging deeper into the history of a 'killer weed'

"Giant hogweed burns children" and "Plant hazard traced": these may sound like familiar headlines to anyone who has been following the week’s news and pictures showing horrific-looking blisters and sores caused by handling hogweed. But these two stories date from 45 years ago, when, as nature writer Richard Mabey put it in his book Weeds, “a real triffid entered the public’s imagination”.
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