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indygoman	Stinging netlle id please (heavy pics )	Lead	[-]
Posts: 546 (07/02/09 7:14 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Hey there folks! Not sure if I found nettle or not but I want to make sure that I do the right thing ....I'm in eastern Canada and from what I found on the web ..witch was not a whole lot we do have stinging nettles here ...Thanks in advance !!
Quillsnkiko		#1	[-]
Posts: 2152 (07/02/09 9:11 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	pretty sure what you have there is dwarf Cinquefoil....it has 5 petals on the flower..and the flower is similar to a strawberry flower but yellow instead of white with a yellow center..and if you have ever seen strawberry leaves the leaves have a similar look as well. Roots are used to treat diarrhea ( cinquefoil ) ....stinging nettles leaves have a slightly similar look.... but are more lance shaped... ( longer leaves ) and the flower of nettle is a sort of greenish fuzzy looking affair that looks like a short tail . But if that was stinging nettle... your fingers would probably itch just from holding the leaves to photograph them. cinquefoil is usually only up to about 10 inches tall..but in fertile conditions ..Ive seen it much taller. " You can't stop the waves .... but, you can learn to surf."
indygoman		#2	[-]
Posts: 547 (07/02/09 9:17 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Sweet ! Thanks for the info Quills much appreciated
EB Jones		#3	[-]
Posts: 1090 (07/03/09 5:52 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Quills is right...one way to find out in hurry is to just grab a leaf or two, and if you get a burning stinging sensation, it's stining nettle. The stem is hairs, and is groved and sectioned similar to how bamboo is sectioned.
Hillbilly NC		#4	[-]
Posts: 2851 (07/03/09 7:06 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Heh heh. When you find stinging nettle (or wood nettle) you won't have to ask. If you run the back of your hand across the plant and it suddenly feels like you just stuck your hand into a bee's nest and whelps start popping up on it and your vocabulary suddenly is enriched by a lot of words that you can't say on TV, then you've found stinging nettle. I always laugh at the descriptions of stinging nettle causing an "itching" sensation. It does start itching after several minutes of intense, burning pain. Save the Cro-Magnons
EB Jones		#5	[-]
Posts: 1091 (07/03/09 8:06 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Right you are HillBilly...but for some reason it hasn't had that bad o an effect on me...for that matter Poison Ivy has no effect on ...blessing and a curse all in one I guess..... But I LIKE your description better :-)

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