Also the name for a big, big revolver.
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Sounds like he has the lotion and the basket covered.
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I have had ample experience with the plant in Europe. It is a nuisance, but not a major one.
First: there is an error in the article: you may get blisters some days after contact, but not years. OTOH, each time you come in contact, the burns get worse. In a word: don’t touch it. Fortunately, the plant signals itself very well.
Second: the plant is not that invasive. It does not spread fast. So normally, you only face a few, maybe ten or so.
Third: the stem is easy to cut. I used a scythe to cut it from a distance. You need to mark the place, because it will grow back the next year. But cut it two, three years in a row and it is gone. I got rid of them years ago.
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I’d put my money on kudzu
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Vodka + water + liquid Dish soap makes a good weedkiller; haven’t tried it on Heracleum mantegazzianum (Which is called Riesen-Bärenklau in these here parts. No, I’m not aware of the etymology.) yet.
1 part vodka
8 parts water
a few drops of liquid dish soap
applied as a spray on the plant
This is what hogweed can do to you (pic lifted from Jimbopedia):
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The solution I found for bindweed is to be hypervigilant & pick every sprout, depriving the root of nourishment.
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All that happens if I can’t get the root is more sprouts coming up in different places.
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That looks like a big helping of NOPE!
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Bindweed: From what I’ve been able to find while searching for its Kryptonite, is that it’s a very needy plant, water-wise. It’s a relative of the Morning Glory, so I’ve had good results from just droughting it to death. NO WATER FOR YOU! But when it grows next to something that gets watered on purpose; I pull, and pull, and pull, and about once every five years I haul out the weed dragon and send it and the prickly lettuce to Valhalla.
I’ve never found the white particularly pretty (especially with what it does to other plants), but these ones that I spotted in Kumamoto in southern Japan were rather attractive:
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One of my neighbors from California keeps planting Morning Glories, but can’t figure out why they never grow like ‘they do in East L.A’… She’s lived here for over 20 years, and hasn’t noticed that you have to irrigate here, if you want to grow something watery. I also had to explain to her that people here don’t plant lemon trees ‘like they do in LA’, because they would freeze and die over the winter. She really hadn’t figured that out, she just thought we were too uncultured and lazy.Her sons keep planting pot in the backyard, and the climate keeps killing it.
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