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Giant, Toxic Weed Poses Health Risk
http://news.discovery.com ^ | Tue Jul 19, 2011 07:48 AM ET | By Emily Sohn

Posted on 07/19/2011 1:01:57 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

Is Nutsedge immune to 2,4D?


81 posted on 07/20/2011 5:41:10 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: Red Badger

On second thought, never mind the invasive plant, we need to do something about ‘enamored botantists’.


82 posted on 07/20/2011 5:46:25 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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It’s immune to everything except atrazine, and even then doesn’t work real well................

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine


83 posted on 07/20/2011 5:47:43 AM PDT by Red Badger (PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
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To: WayneS

People have brought exotic plants to America for a long time, especially in the 1800’s.
Popcorn trees are a prime example...............Kudzu was brought in by the government, on purpose........


84 posted on 07/20/2011 5:49:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
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Was atrazine also known as 2,4,6-T when it was being sold commercially?


85 posted on 07/20/2011 6:11:09 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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I don’t think so................


86 posted on 07/20/2011 6:13:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
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My retirement plans...

A leafblower.
Bags of giant hogsheads seeds.
Maps of Moslem Mosques in America.


87 posted on 07/20/2011 6:14:23 AM PDT by Eye of Unk
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LOL!.....I never knew!..................PERFECT!

The Return Of The Giant Hogweed
Artist(Band):Genesis

Turn and run!
Nothing can stop them,
Around every river and canal their power is growing.
Stamp them out!
We must destroy them,
They infiltrate each city with their thick dark warning odour.

They are invincible,
They seem immune to all our herbicidal battering.

Long ago in the Russian hills,
A Victorian explorer found the regal Hogweed by a marsh,
He captured it and brought it home.
Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge.
Royal beast did not forget.
He came home to London,
And made a present of the Hogweed to the Royal Gardens at Kew.

Waste no time!
They are approaching.
Hurry now, we must protect ourselves and find some shelter
Strike by night!
They are defenceless.
They all need the sun to photosensitize their venom.

Still they’re invincible,
Still they’re immune to all our herbicidal battering.

Fashionable country gentlemen had some cultivated wild gardens,
In which they innocently planted the Giant Hogweed throughout the land.
Botanical creature stirs, seeking revenge.
Royal beast did not forget.
Soon they escaped, spreading their seed,
Preparing for an onslaught, threatening the human race.

The Dance Of The Giant Hogweed

Mighty Hogweed is avenged.
Human bodies soon will know our anger.
Kill them with your Hogweed hairs
HERACLEUM MANTEGAZZIANI

Giant Hogweed lives

- ADVANCE -


88 posted on 07/20/2011 6:19:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
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