thank Jay, this is a young plant and not in full bloom yet. I love the look of the huge leaves. It is called Devil's club because all along the stem, and veins of the leaves are covered in very tiny almost invisible thorns, once they are embedded into your skin it seems you can never get them all out. very painful and irritating. And since they grow on the hill sides of the forests, unaware hikers will let them brush their hands.
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use - silence, exile, and cunning.
James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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That's a plant I've never heard of! It looks quite pretty! So .. is it poisonous?
thank Jay, this is a young plant and not in full bloom yet.
I love the look of the huge leaves.
It is called Devil's club because all along the stem, and veins of the leaves are covered in very tiny almost invisible thorns, once they are embedded into your skin it seems you can never get them all out. very painful and irritating. And since they grow on the hill sides of the forests, unaware hikers will let them brush their hands.
That would make some killer watercolor...I'm tempted to ask permission.
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