Sentences with phrase «giant hogweed»

Giant hogweed can be a serious health hazard for humans.

It is like the proverbial foreign invasive species (rabbits in Australia, giant hogweed, etc.)-- it seemed a good idea when it was nice to look at and was helping politicians get elected, but now it has gained a life of its own «in the wild», it is a species with no natural opposition to its rapid unopposed growth.

Featuring a giant hogweed, intestines, a giant otter giving birth before a human gaze and a toad doing gymnastics, Ihrman's artworks index debates on our complex and problematic relationship with invasive species and the anthropomorphising of the animal kingdom.

For example, Germany is fighting an invasive plant called giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), which is native to Asia.