wkp.us » plants http://wkp.us ...my personal blog Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:41:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Burn Nettle – This plant stung me. http://wkp.us/2009/06/25/stinging-nettle/ http://wkp.us/2009/06/25/stinging-nettle/#comments Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:10:22 +0000 admin http://wkp.wp41.com/?p=140 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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