Top 10 Poisonous Plants in the UK | THIS COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE!
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2021
- Being outside is fantastic for your mental health but there are some noxious weeds that can be dangerous to your health... some even lethal. Some could be growing in your garden, local woodland or even near to a child's play park.
Join me on a poisonous plant hunt where I show how to identify 10 of them growing wild in the UK.
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Huge thanks to Bristol City Council for assisting with this mission.
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Giant Hogweed - Heracleum mantegazzianum
Hemlock waterdrop wart - Oenanthe crocata
Water Hemlock, Dead Mans Fingers, Dead Tongue
Hemlock- Conium maculatum
Poison hemlock
Wolfsbane - Aconitum napellus
Spurge- genus Euphorbia
Euphorbia amygdaloides
Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea
Lords and ladies- Arum maculatum
Dogs mercury - Mercurialis perennis
Deadly nightshade - Atropa belladonna (Actually Solanum Dulcamara similar also highly toxic)
Ragwort - Senecio jacobaea
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Super essential Viewing, many thanks.
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00:00 Intro
00:19 1 Giant Hogweed - Heracleum mantegazzianum
03:05 2 Hemlock waterdrop wart - Oenanthe crocata
Water Hemlock, Dead Mans Fingers, Dead Tongue
06:01 3 Hemlock- Conium maculatum Poison hemlock
07:20 4 Wolfsbane - Aconitum napellus
09:15 5 Spurge- genus Euphorbia Euphorbia amygdaloides
10:57 6 Foxglove - Digitalis purpurea
15:15 7 Lords and L adies- Arum maculatum
16:52 8 Dogs mercury - Mercurialis perennis
18:21 9 Deadly nightshade - Atropa belladonna
19:34 10 Ragwort - Senecio jacobaea
Celandine's orange sap is pretty nasty also! Good for killing verrucas tho if used with care. It's worth noting also that the average suburban garden is stuffed full of poisonous plants from all over the world so the countryside should not be feared if one has the common sense to respect it.
That was not deadly nightshade (atropa belladonna)!! That is bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara) It's a bit less toxic but still better not use it.
Best to tell people about your mistake, at least in the video description. Oh and also that is not Ragwort. It's actually an edible dandelion relative.
We live immediately by a river, and downstream, some kids ended up in hospital due to messing around with giant hogweed about a year back ( in lockdown one)
They would benefit from a chart on the classroom walls, as most kids think the countryside is the grass on a roundabout, and when they do get there..etc
Hi there, great video. But the poisonous plant called Bitter Sweet I thought was called Solanum dulcamara (woody nightshade) belonging to Solanaceae. The Deady Nightshade is Atropa Belladonna. You just showed the wrong plant. Check this out.👍
I used to love going out on field walks!
After watching this
I’ve decided to just walk in my bedroom 🤷🏻♂️
As someone who has spent a great deal of time interacting with the outdoors I apparently must have survived by blind luck
Same
Me too!!!
Me three
I had no idea… I spent most of my childhood on my parents smallholding and/or in the woods, fields, etc with my siblings. I SAW these! That giant hogweed…. I used to practise my ‘sword swinging’ attacks with sticks on these!…. Man, I’m so lucky- my guardian angels must have been working overtime
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Another thing to add the my list of "Why is this not taught to everyone in school." Alongside law and politics.
And philosophy, especially logic.
And filling tax forms... Boring, but incredibly useful!
Parnts should its law that parents provide their childen with an education, they may do so by deligating it o a school or otherwise i get fed up with teachers undermininhparens who have sense yo tell children things they are ready for.
Cause kids dont play outside anymore
Seriously? If we were taught this we wouldn't fall for it would we.
Sometimes I wonder why this kind of thing was never taught at school, and likely still isn't. As a kid, I used to play in all sorts of water (canals, brooks, rivers, etc.), but I never knew about poisonous plants. Glad I survived to watch your video!
I'll be doing a lot more walking/climbing outdoors, hence why I subscribed. You have some great content and really good advice. Thanks so much for sharing your wealth of knowledge.
Pretty sure kids would try and use it to kill each other…..and of course in this case it could work.
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 hi Nick
Didn’t realise you where only down the road from me I thought I’d seen you motor around
I believe blue bells are poisonous and can be used for glue
They once was used for fletchings and if the fletching grazed the skin it would kill apparently?
I just wondered if we have a plant that could of been used as a poison for hunting like some tribes use in the jungles that kill the prey yet once cooked the poison gets destroyed?
@Comment Valuable life skill : Knowing weedkiller is toxic
We were taught back then. We actually had deadly nightshade growing at the back of our school field and we used to chase the girls with it!
problem is that most teachers have no idea these are poisonous
I never thought the UK had so many poisonous plants. I'm a person that loves plants and I have the tendency to pick up wild flowers, I find them beautiful. Now, that I've seen your video I'll be more careful. Thank you for your information.
You shouldn't pick wild plants or flowers for their sake if not your own, love is not possession
I quite agree with you there, love is not possession but unfortunately people like to possess things. I've learned my lesson, (never pick up Wild flowers) thank you 🙏.
Casual Berry picking & eating will now be a bit more considered. Who knows how many lethal Berries have been avoided by sheer luck.
When I was about ten years of age I discovered that the giant hogweed stem was hollow and that it fitted a hawthorn berry in perfectly . Just like a pee shooter . Me and my friends were like botoxed women within about twenty minutes . Lips swollen and and burning after using the stem as a pee shooter . Non of us died , but all of us looked like Jordan for a day .
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I’m sure you meant “pea shooter”
@@barkershill 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤫🤫🤫
When younger for a dare i used to pull the flower-heads of the foxglove & lick the nectar , obviously it affected me as i"ve been stuck with the same woman for 25 years ! :)
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The correct spelling is "off" and the "I" is always capitalized when on its own and at the beginning of a word or abbreviation in a sentence (there are other errors also).
Well worth watching, should be seen by children in towns and cities as well as the countryside.
It needs correcting tho. Some sad mistakes, possibly dangerous... but not really because nobody should eat any plant just because they see a video of some guy showing you.
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 Many local councils used to operate with a policy that if Deadly Nightshade was reported by a local, the men with shovels and poison would be around straight away to kill the thing. Absolutely awful plant. As you know, a relative of the tomato.
The first thing I thought is why was I not taught anything about any poisonous plants native to our country at school as a child. Deadly nightshade is the only plant I remember from being a child. The amount of contact I must have had with these plants and not had a clue!
@@benjefferies7123 There are people that actually have used deadly night shade for recreational experiences. However 3 days of delirium and madness doesn't sound like fun to rational people most people especially with the risk of death if to much is consumed. The Night shade family includes tomatoes, potatoes, aubergines and peppers also tobacco.
Deadly nightshade grows in thickets around my workshop in Birmingham city centre. Kids in the city should definitely be made aware of these plants
Extremely useful.
In fact, if you think about the number of kids and families wandering through the countryside daily who are oblivious to this, it's surprising there aren't more cases of poisoning than we actually get.
I actually grown fox glove. I've seen white with purple on the inside, pink, light purple, light pink and yellow. They are beautiful flowers and mine gotten massive, bigger than what you would see in the wild. I grown it because I knew it was a good flower for bees. I had plenty of bees in my garden and it brought me joy watching them buzz around happily.
This should be made absolutely essential viewing in all schools across the country.
With the correct content maybe!
Very good video. Important to put into perspective. I've been a gardener since I was around 8. Mum taught me about poisonous plants such as Foxglove,Daffodils and parts of Rhubarb and Potatoes. As well as edible flowers such as Nasturtium and some Fuchsia berries. They all have their place in my garden. The biggest and most important lesson she taught me was, if in doubt do not touch without gloves and NEVER eat it. 60 years later I'm still digging.
As a Scout leader I think this is one of the best, informative and useful videos that Scouts should see before summer camp. Hogweed and nightshade are names I've heard of but seeing them in videos reinforces learning...
Actually I think all your videos are very good and again they have "legs" to expand Scout stuff.
Appreciate all your hard work and maybe good to catch up and shake your hand one day.
Cheers Nick
Mango🔥
Ps just watched the Afhan reflections.... very, very touching.
I liked the way he wore gloves and kept touching his face and even rubbing his nose!
One of my cherished memories of my late father was his knowledge of our native plants and which to avoid when foraging. He taught me from a very young age as we often went picking for wild fruits in the countryside. The golden advice was that if you weren't sure about it, or what was intertwined with it, then leave it alone. Excellent video!
Good advice, clearly a wise man.
And while you're out foraging for edible plants, triffids are out foraging for... *YOU* ...
If in doubt leave it out.
We have a very comparable vegetation here in Bavaria, Germany, so thank you. I grew up around masses of nightshade along the river Danube and my father had such an eye on me because those cherrie like berries were so inviting that as a kid, I always thought: just one and I still remember how intensely I got blamed for hiding one behind my back. What nerves I must have cost my father... Also the others are very common for me but I didn't actively recognize the first giant and wouldn't have recognized Schierling (Sokrates fate) as easy, especially had no clue how leathel it is alone through such little contact. So I am very grateful for you, since I plan to be more around forest and creeks now again, since my dog is finally healed after all those weeks. Thank you for your always so valuable information, very detailed lessons and super helpful. I appreciate this very much and my father may sight in his grave that his stubborn donkey head daughter finally got some brains ;-) and senses and learned to listen to good advice. (The mother thing may have caused the change in the end, especially since I had to deal with my own clone... Gosh...).
Nightshade was used in the sacred eucharist during the early beginnings of Christianity.
@@Malabus73 Well it does have a history with witchcraft.. And early ethnobotany... As do so many poisonous plants! 🙂
"Tollkirschen", heißt das auf Deutsch, kenn' ich wohl! 🙂👍
I can confirm the giant Hogweed burns your skin until it blisters like scolding, because I have experienced it when cutting it down, not knowing what it was. It is painful and horrendous and the blisters take ages to heal. Anytime I see this stuff now I notify the landowner or council. Steer well clear off this stuff!
Wow, I’m a keen gardener but every day is a school day….really enjoyed this video….
Great info.
A lot of these things (esp Ragwort) are great for wildlife (Cinnabar caterpillars) so it's really about being wise to them rather than bludgeoning it to death. Having said that, i am certainly not keen on Giant Hogweed.
Ty :)
I am surprised Bluebells didn't make the list. When young they resemble multiple edible plants like wild garlic. But the bulbs are pretty nasty and are fairly common in woodlands around the UK.
I touched a plant in my garden the other day that left blisters in my arm and kept itching for 2 full days, extremely painful and annoying. Now looking to find out what plant was that, thanks to your video, I know! It was that evil Hogweed you showed first...and we have loads, which will be all cut properly now! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us, extremely helpful and important!!!
Likely to be Hogweed which is extremely common. The effect is due to the hairy spicules which act a bit like nettle. The action of foxglove is entirely incorrect.
As many have mentioned before in comments, this sort of video needs to be shown around classrooms along with basic first aid skills! Thankfully I grew up in the countryside and had keen gardening parents who taught about most of what’s shown here, I in turn have shown my kids! Just found this channel and have now subscribed!👍👍
I'm originally from a town in the North East of England and when I was around 5ish, a bunch of kids from our street decided to pick and eat the "pea pods" from the trees at the bottom of our garden, that evening we all found ourselves in A&E having our stomachs pumped, the offending tree - Laburnum....
😱😱😱😱 yes that's 11 for the list! Lillies could be 12 but think it's mostly cat's that they are toxic for! I assume because we should know not to eat lillies right?
Shouldn't eat sweet peas either. They grew wild in my hometown, people mistook them for edible peas
You're not alone there mate. I was sick in my head teachers car on the way to hospital. Can still remember the taste of those 'sweet peas'
How about horse chestnuts? They are so similar to the Spanish chestnuts... Maybe horse chestnuts taste and smell disgusting when roasted.
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Anyone that cuts the balls off a horse and eats them should be punished!
i got giant hogweed sap on my face when i was working as a landscaper, we were strimming the grass verges along a motorway and i got some sprayed in my face.. i didnt think anything of it to start with, but it soon started to get nippy.. i walked back to the van and washed off the mulch/paste and when i looked in the mirror i had big blisters around where my glasses had been. still got the scars 10 years later, extremely happy i was wearing ppe or i would be blind.
I just subscribed. I'm in the Southern US 🇺🇸. I'm not familiar with what's here yet. just recently moved from a northern state... where I've seen several of the plants on your video. I had no idea some of them were so deadly. I'll definitely be paying closer attention and researching my local flora. looking forward to more of your videos also.
and I love EVERYTHING UK 🇬🇧 💞
Really important information and your the first person I know of that's dedicated a video to the subject, 👍
Important and incorrect. Sadly the belladonna and ragwort are not the plants shown in video. Better look em up yourself and or buy some books. But best is experience in the field.
@@notone4540 Thats corect the video needs editing or correcting
How on earth did us Brits live into our 80+ lol
Mate, this is brilliant. I've just started out as a self-employed gardener and had no idea we had so many asshole plants! Good to know. Cheers o/
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Yes mr Kope 🙏
as a Cat I concur 👌
there's many
'asshole ☘️🌿🌱plants'
around as you brilliantly put it lol👏😝😸😸🐾👌
As last comment , I spent my entire childhood ; and , now , a huge chunk of my mature life surrounded by these plants , amidst / and in the thick of them . Apart from the Giant Hogweed , which I was taught to recognize as it grew around the village I grew up in (thanks to the Rothschild's) , I've always treated hemlocks as various types of Cow Parsley . As children we made blowpipes , pan pipes , flute-ee type instruments , the dried stems I have very often used as fire starters as light , dry and hollow . This wasn't just me , it was all of us , all the kids in my village LIVED in the surrounding countryside , pretty much unsupervised week in week out . I absolutely don't doubt any of the info you're putting forward here ~ BUT.... the chance of myself , or one of 100+ children not being accidentally poisoned seems EXTREMELY unlikely - through chatting with Stuart Coyne , (you'll like him if he's not already known to you) , I became aware what Burdock looks like , realized I'm still surrounded by it , and have proper casually interacted / cleared even it on many many occasions .
Why did none of us EVER get accidentally poisoned as children..!!? Odds on , at least one child a year should've been poisoned - we didn't know to differentiate between the "Cow Parsleys" , they were just bigger or smaller , slightly different flowers etc.
This has baffled me this morning ~ all the best to you good people , Adam .
"The chances of not being poisoned are extremely unlikely" the thing about being thick is that you don't know you're thick.
A masterpiece video and much needed. These are potent plants that don't usually give second chances. Thank you for taking the time to do it.
I’ve had the hogweed treatment, clearing it from a river bank not knowing what it was tearing it down with my bare hands, I remember wiping my hands on my T shirt, it was a miracle I never rubbed my face or itched my eyes. Next thing my whole mid section was burning and blistering, it lasted about 6 weeks and was burning agony, especially at night trying to sleep. Thanks for making this video 👍🏻
I'm confused , or very very lucky . When I was a child in late 80s I used to play in massive growths of this . there was that much I used to pretend it was a forest and chop it down like it was trees and hack away at it . was easily three times my height at that age . Found out when I was a teen that it was harmful . But never believed it because of how I used to play in it . The way it is described here is scary to think about .
@@andezdoes Its the sap that is toxic I beleive. Like a few of the other plants here, it's only really bad if you break it and get the sap on your skin or worse, ingest it. I've seen Coucil folks clearing it once or twice and they always come in full haz mat suits, so yes I think you were pretty lucky!
You’re immune. You’re humanity’s only hope of a vaccine 💉
@@andersondawn3631 🤣🤣🤣 I'm willing to sacrifice for the greater good 👍
Hope you've fully recovered!
"Euphorbia, next to me here. Now, there are a number of different types."
Chilled, Ibiza...
We have been letting ragwort grow in our garden to attract cinnabar moths as the larvae mostly eat ragwort. They actually often die of starvation as they tend to eat all the ragwort before reaching maturity.
I explained to my daughter about this plant growing in our garden and about the moths and of course, to stay away from it as its very toxic.
Just last week we see the moths flying about. She was so happy to see them and told all her friends about them. They all know what it looks like now and to stay away, but enjoy the creatures that live on it.
I live in Virginia, USA. I was just talking to my best friend yesterday about Giant Hogweed he had been burned with and I have seen foxglove also but did not know of its potential bad side. Thank you very much
This should be taught in school. Excellent video.
It was taught in my school but that was many years ago.
Thank you for this.. I’m only just getting in to foraging and edible so this was a shock. Very informative cheers. I really wonder what 52 people who disliked the video had to be disappointed over. Baffles me!
52 people who disliked this wiped with poison ivy after a nature dump.
I had a poster with photos about these poisonous plants as boy in late 1980s.
Because those 52 people had just been told they had 3 hours to live 😁
Thanks Nick, another great informative video for all who venture in to the great outdoors 👍 awesome 👍
Wow, this stuff is awesome. So informative. Never thought we had so many killer plants next to us. Subscribed.
For Agatha Christie fans - any time a character mentions ‘eyedrops’ you know that’s going to be the murder weapon. Old Agatha was very keen on her atropine (ooh, poetry!)
That's very true and she was never Educated at school,Total Respect,This is a Lady who should have received a Knighthood.
@@barry5356 That's "Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie, Lady Mallowan, DBE" to the likes of you and me. The DBE was for services to literature.
Atropine is of course, an antidote itself, to nerve agents, as it speeds the heart rate while nerve gas stops the heart.
Top gayness this comment is 😂
Dame Agatha also used Monkshood to dispatch a few of her victims - Doctor Quimper used it in '4:50 from Paddington' if I remember rightly. And Hemlock was used in 'Five Little pigs'. I expect there are others that I've forgotten.
A fun fact about Belladonna: We still use atropine (and derivatives thereof) in a medical context today. Atropine is used to dilate pupils when examining eyes, and ipratropium (a derivative) is used in the treatment of astma and COPD.
Good old bronchial dilator usually given as a nebuliser or inhaler.
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 its also an antidote to dog flea powder
It is also used for diarrhoea, I think.
As well as Digitalis, which was used in heart failure.
@@wideyxyz2271 I still am prescribed it, very good for a persistent cough,
I lost a rabbit to a poisonous plat last year. It isn't just people but family pets who get killed. People don't realise that rabbits learn what they can eat from older rabbits, it isn't an instinct and apart from grass most things bad for us poison them. Great video.
This is true. They will eat dock leaves but they are poisonous to rabbits.
Absolutely. Also dogs can get poisoning from foxgloves, some lillies, pink clover, ... :/
Brilliant video. Thank you SO much HVB.
Thank you for this video, I'm from Australia but living in the UK now, so this was super helpful as I'm not familiar with the plants here (yet)!
Very useful. Didn't know there are two types of hemlock. Knew about the one with purple markings, but not about the 'celery stalks and parsley leaves' variety. Very good way to remember it. Thanks again.
Three types if you include the tree :)
there's also lesser hemlock/fools parsley, that grows by the roadsides, it's a good idea to steer clear of that as well,
Another great video, very educational, binge watching all your videos 🙏🙏🙏
Not entirely sure how I stumbled upon this video, but I am very glad I did. Was fascinated by the array of poisonous plants, and working in cardiology I realise where "digoxin" comes from now! Love your presentation by the way, relaxed and very nice manner.
Many thanks for this. I had heard some of these names before but wouldn't have recognised them and didn't realise they are so common. I enjoy the outdoors and sometimes like to pick, scrunch and sniff random leaves and flowers. I now realise I have been quite lucky👍
You're weird for that bro, to each their own.
Yes, but how many of these can you remember by SIGHT!- No good quoting it’s Latin name- you have to visually recognise these! - The first one was easy just from its sheer size, but then I found they got progressively harder to remember as the clip went on!!
So impressed with this documentary. I’ve lived in the country side for much of my life and have been aware of most of these plants from my childhood, however I don’t remember who taught me. My neighbours grandchildren are town bred but spend time here loving the forest. I immediately shared your video with her to show the children. So important, especially as my cousins son died at the age of 17 from monkshood poisoning in a mistaken attempt to “see what making a brew from the leaves” would do. So thank you for the knowledge you are passing on.
Second Video and again good engagement and informative. Thankyou for the time and explaining all these plants we see when out and about. The triffid reference was funny, as scary as Jaws music when swimming in the sea.
I remember the giant hogweed as a kid with the copious warnings about blisters, skin burns and plants at least fifteen foot tall. The council never did anything about them, but as kids we always kept away.
Another great informative video. One I’ll have to watch another dozen times for it to sink in 👍
That’s it! In future, I will obtain leaves and berries from the wilds of Asda (and hope for the best!)
You have highlighted the problem with this video, it focuses on fear. I often get looks of horror when people see me pick wild roses and eat the rose hips (which are very sweet like plums) people think anything growing wild are pioson they get scared of any food that does not come out of the supermarkets. I often see wild apple trees full of apples and nobody wants to pick them or wild cherry trees with all the cherries lying on the floor wasted.
@@religionisasnare For me, while I do take your point, I am ignorant of much of this, I think your user Id sums up my cautious approach
@@religionisasnare I think people need to be educated about what IS safe and what isn't. Obviously, only showing people the plants out there that are toxic will make them paranoid, but if you contrast it with the vast array of ones that are edible and how to differentiate them from similar looking plants that are poisonous, perhaps they wouldn't be so scared of the natural world around them. I'm pretty sure most people many years ago were up on this sort of stuff, but it seems to be knowledge that has been lost to time outside of people who are into botany and/or wild foraging. Wouldn't surprise me if this has been done on purpose to discourage people from foraging for their own food, making them wholly reliant on supermarkets and fast food chains. If there was a societal collapse, most people would be like a fish out of water.
What a great informative video, really opened my eyes to things I never knew were there in our countryside! Thanks for sharing your knowledge :)
Wild swimmers be aware, only 16 percent of Britain's inland waters are clean enough to swim in.
There was an inquiry reported on a couple of months ago, highlighting the amount of contamination of human waste into our rivers by the Water companies :- they have consistently pumped in 10 TIMES the legal limit for 10 YEARS consecutively!! With what looks like no recompense!
Seriously outrageous!
My brother was injured by Giant Hogweed while clearing weeds from an allotment. He got the sap on his arms and lower legs while working on a bright sunny day. Within a couple of hours he looked like he'd been whipped with hot wires - skin blistered and swollen in streaks. He was in a lot of pain, barely able to walk or move his arms for a couple of days. It took two weeks to scab and heal, and he had very visible scars for six months. He still has a few faint scars more than ten years later. Don't mess with this stuff.
Really good and informative video Nick, keep up the good work :)
Most instructive. Thank you.
Excellent video. I knew a couple of these plants but was interested in finding out more. Sadly I've only just found your channel and am now working my way through the other videos. Brilliant stuff!
The plant you identified as deadly nightshade looks more like woody nightshade to me.
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 you still havn't made the ammendment
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 mate isn't too hard to amend your video, who reads small print mentality, you have to not only talk about being responsible but actually do the same regarding mistakes, educating is wonderful but you got to do it right, be on top of it.
yes that is woody night shade . I have only come across deadly nightshade once it is not common
Thank you for the info...
@@carolinegraystone9308 The black berry looked right for deadly nightshade though, I've only once seen it growing in the wild in Yorkshire though. Woody nightshade is more common, however.
Fantastic video, truly educational and as an avid outdoors guy, this is certainly something children should be educated on. Very grateful for the video look forward to more.
Very informative video. As someone who works outdoors and who only knew about giant hog weed this video was an eye opener. You’ve earned my Subscription.
Such a valuable source of information, thank you ❤
To answer your question - I have four variant colours of foxglove in my garden here on The Isle of Wight - dark purple, light purple, white with purple throat specks and true white with faint beige throat specks. I love them and let them spread and don't touch or eat them!
Brilliant advice, thanks so much
This video has blown. My mind , potentially life saving , thank you for your efforts mate 👍
Thank you for sharing this , very helpful 🌟
I had a nasty brush with giant hogweed. Reaching round a bush while wearing a sleeveless top, I hadn’t noticed a hogweed growing next to it - the damn thing brushed my underarm area. It took around 10 weeks to heal because, of course, every time I moved my arm, the blisters were aggravated some more :(
We used to play lightsabres with dried hogweed stems when we were kids. I knew someone that tried smoking one and he did get the blisters around his mouth like the chap said, to be fair.
I recognise a few of the plants mentioned. Definitely the hogweed, foxglove and cuckoo pint. I've taken this list of plants and plan to go searching for them to make myself familiar with them. Many thanks for the information
Love your videos! I'll be booking a course or 2 next year with you, aswell as referring Vets to you. Nature is a massive cure for a lot of illness both physical and especially mental.
Keep up the great work.
Absolutely love this, think it highlights very well what to look out for, very clear and educational
Excellent and very accurate information great video thanks. I hope all woodland adventurers watch this
Always annoys me when people say natural is harmless, but then I grew up with a mother knowledgeable about wild plants. Even so, I wasn't prepared to find myself in hospital with my toddler son who had been helping me plant seeds, and then asked for more "to eat". I phoned the doc as a precaution but as the seeds turned out to be corncockle, eradicated from the farmer's fields because of the toxic seeds, it wasn't long before Junior was in A and E vomiting to clear his stomach. The nurses asked if he had had laburnum seeds as it was coming up to "that time of year". Another one for the list.
We had a Laburnum tree in our garden when I was a kid and I remember our mother telling us it was poisonous too.
@@steenystuff1075 why wouldn't you just chop that down if you've got kids lol idk seems mental. You can tell a kid don't mess with it all you want, no guarantee they won't anyway. As an adult I will still lick a random tree or leaf when challenged to do so by a certain 8 year old boy haha its a miracle I've survived. Considering how valuable this information is it's a shame I will have forgotten the names and appearances of all of these within minutes... Ffs 🤣
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I've got arum lilies in my garden. Very pretty but they're also poisonous. I've had to tell my grandchildren not to touch them for that reason. I have 17 grandchildren and so far they haven't touched the plants.
Thank you so much Nick. Fascinating video. My grandchildren are very young and their parents are very keen to get them outdoors and explore the garden (new house with massive mature garden) and into the woods etc. The information you have shared here is amazing, if not quite a bit frightening. Thank you again for posting.
Brilliant video, really worth while watching
These are great tips as I remember touching some deadly nightshade as a kid. My dad first spotted what I'd done and both parents quickly kept my hands away from my mouth and managed to find an outdoor tap where they washed my hands thoroughly. Who knows what as a kid I might have done otherwise. Everyone should learn these skills.
Didn’t expect so many deadly plants in the uk, thanks for telling us about them 🤔
Excellent video. Very informative.....Many thanks.
Good information kept in perspective. Thanks.
Alarmingly informative! - made me think hard about our daily walks though, thanks.
Commenting for the algorithm - everyone should see this. Great job 👏
Best days of my childhood were spent with Ragwort. Loved pulling it in the fields.
Great information- thank you!❤
In the Netherlands foxglove it is very common across the country. We call it "vingerhoedskruid". Different color flowers ranging from pink to purple, white, yellow, reddish. It is considered a a beautiful ornamental garden flower. Many people also have them in their gardens in cities and towns. Especially the leaves and flowers are poisonous and most toxic when the flowers bloom. Cases of poisoning people don't occur often. One leaf or flower is enough to cause toxicity causing symptoms of nausea and vomiting. Main effect is bradycardia, or slowing of the heart beating. Substance is digitalis which is used commonly today to treat a certain common heart disease. Sporadic accidents happen where people accidententally pluck a leaf for a salad and mistake it for a non toxic leaf of another plant.
Wnhevenhuis: My Mother grew Foxgloves in her garden, they are a pretty plant. Why do bees and other insects not succumb to them when raiding them for nectar or eating parts of the petals or leaves, or coming in contact with the pollen?
The mixjng of the leaves into a salad was how Agatha Christie polished off one of the victims in a Miss Marple story. Christie was a trained dispensarian (pharmacy technician), and was very careful about drugs & poisons.
This kind of knowledge should be taught in schools. I love spending time outdoors (weather permitting) and have started getting interested in the wild flora of the areas I visit. I tend to use an identification app if there's something new I haven't seen before.
I think the only one out of these 10 you showed I knew not to touch was the giant hogweed. I wish I was more educated on the subject as I like to find edibles such as wild strawberries, juniper berries, wild garlic, and so on but this short video has opened my eyes on just how careful you need to be even in thr UK.
That was great - I’m going to have to watch it again to remember it all. I love living in the time of UA-cam!
Excellent, informative video dude. I will be re-watching this video with the children as my daughter is very fond of picking flowers, not in the wild but from our garden and now her younger brother is following suit. Thank you.
Great video, thanks. Very clear. Unfortunately you've made a common error with plant no.9. The plant you showed is Woody Nightshade, or Bittersweet (Solanum dulcamara) which is often mistaken for Deadly Nightshade. Woody Nightshade is very common in hedgerows and elsewhere in the UK, while Deadly Nightshade is actually quite rare. The berries of Woody Nightshade, which are initially green, then yellow and finally red, are toxic however, but nothing like as toxic as the shiny black berries of Deadly Nightshade.
Also nr 10 was not right, it was hard to see, but i don't think that was not ragwort
I spotted that too. Otherwise, great video.
Yes I agree with other comments Ident on the Nightshade and Senecio were definitely incorrect. However I think you got the point across ! It would be nice to see those corrected when you find the correct examples. The true ‘ Deadly Nightshade is indeed very rare, I have only seen it in one place in 66 years, and the one you showed is indeed poisonous, just not as poisonous and wrongly identified.
Was searching the comments to see if anyone else had mentioned this already. I’ve only seen true deadly nightshade once; it sprang up in a garden in central Peterborough about a decade ago. I was most impressed by the berries.
Is that narrow-leaved ragwort? I can’t see it clearly so I’m going with benefit of the doubt. It isn’t the familiar common ragwort.
Backs up the feeling this "expert" isn't! Short sleeves in amongst Giant Hogweed is a telling sign.
Nice presentation Nick, hope you and your family are doing well, hopefully this covid thing will slow down enough for us to get back to the outdoors with the kids,
Take care mate.
Nige.
This is a great video! I'll be studying the plants in my area now for sure! Thanks so much!
Very informative, good work and real examples!
Hi Nick, this is probably the best video about the UKs poisonous plants I’ve seen, great job! I wonder if it’s worth putting together a pdf guide to go with it. Keep up the great work!
For your safety, there’s a couple of wrong id’s here. The ‘deadly nightshade’ is actually woody nightshade, and the ‘ragwort’ looks like lapsana communis (edible)
Here's me thinking the most dangerous plant in the UK was nettles!
Gosh! I had no idea 😱! Thank you for the very insightful vid 🙌
Such an informative video. Really interesting. Learnt a lot. Thank you.
PRICELESS.... GREAT INFORMATIVE VIDEO NICK LEARNED SOME MORE IMPORTANT INFORMATION THANK YOU HAVE A BLESSED DAY TO YOU & YOUR FAMILY 🙏🙏🙏
It was misinformation. Amazing that someone who pretends to be an expert can't even identify a plant as common and distinctive as ragwort, amongst several other errors...
Wow, that was a very eye opening video. I only new about 3 of those plants when I was a kid and used to be out in the woods almost every week. Must have been lucky. We have a species of euphorbia here in the Caribbean which a gardener friend of mine was unlucky enough to get in is eyes. I took him straight to an eye specialist who managed to successfully treat him. Luckily he made a full recovery. Definitely going to save this on for when I’m in the UK woodland again. Cheers
Brilliant!! I'm a very keen rambler and love our flora and fauna, it's amazing how many plants I see every day out and about are pretty dangerous. Top work and you've found yourself a new subscriber!
Great vid glad i found this channel!
Big thanks! Just dug up what looked like Hemlock from the wild flowers in the front where the kids play!
I'd assumed it was a big cow parsley, but had the stem had purple splodges and was smoother.
@@hiddenvalleybushcraft5683 Might want to stand well back from the bonfire though, pretty sure the smoke won't be too good for your lungs.
I live in Australia and we have foxgloves here. It was my aunt who told me to get rid of the plant, it would kill the pets. It was removed and burned. This has been very informative, loved how you went into detail on the varying plants
what a shame as they look great and are good for bees. I know of a person who used foxglove root for psychoactive purposes with success
It's not THAT bad. in fact it's a common cottage garden ornamental in the UK. Often it's supplied as a component of wildflower seed mixes as it's a great source of nectar for bees. Foxgloves are safe enough so long as you don't eat them. Same goes for Ragwort. Tulips and Daffodils are toxic too but folks aren't fearful of those because they're pretty and vendors for some reason choose not to highlight it.
Mind you, if those Australian foxgloves are non-native invasives, or have different, more deadly properties then burn away!
We have dogs and always have foxgloves in the garden. Your pets are smart enough to not eat it, it’s absolutely fine.
That's excessive, I do the opposite I grow them for the bees. I just tell my children not to eat too much
Incredibly informative and useful info! Thanks very much. You are truly an expert!
Gosh ! This was some useful info , cheers mate . Would’ve never knew this