Burn Nettle – This plant stung me.

This plant hurt me.

Nettles - Urtica dioica phone snapshot

If your disc flies off course, as mine happened to the other day, and it lands in this stuff ~ Watch out. This is Stinging Nettles ~ Urtica dioica

According to Wikipedia the stinging part is:

a needle that will inject several chemicals: acetylcholine, histamine, 5-HT or serotonin, and possibly formic acid.

My first summertime experience with this plant left me “burning” for about 7 hours.

• Today I found my disc and was stung on the face, leg and hand. Interestingly potent.

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