Giant wild ferns

[gradus]

This morning I went for a walk using a path I last walked 2 months ago, normally it is surrounded by ferns to about 3 feet high but I was amazed to see the ferns had reached 7 to 8 feet completely obliterating the path. Perhaps this is common elsewhere but I've never seen it hereabouts before. Anyone else encountered this?

[Bryn]

This morning I went for a walk using a path I last walked 2 months ago, normally it is surrounded by ferns to about 3 feet high but I was amazed to see the ferns had reached 7 to 8 feet completely obliterating the path. Perhaps this is common elsewhere but I've never seen it hereabouts before. Anyone else encountered this?

What type of "ferns"? Are you referring to bracken, or what? If Bracken, that can grow up to 2.5 metres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracken

[gradus]

What type of "ferns"? Are you referring to bracken, or what? If Bracken, that can grow up to 2.5 metres: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bracken

That's the one, never seen it as high before.

[Bryn]

That's the one, never seen it as high before.

It's got pretty high round here, too. Not to be messed with. Both the fronds and the spores contain a carcinogen, ptaquiloside.

[eighthobstruction]

....BRACKEN?????....got a cheek to call itself a fern....bloomin bloomin bracken....coverer of hillsides once filled with Billberries....have at thee Bracken I shall forstall thy progress at all costs {just a little}....

[vinteuil]

It's got pretty high round here, too. Not to be messed with. Both the fronds and the sores contain a carcinogen, ptaquiloside.

... oh, them norsesquiterpene glucosides! Bad enuff from the spores, hate to think what the sores might produce.

But seriously, it looks a nasty little bugger -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptaquiloside

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[eighthobstruction]

... oh, them norsesquiterpene glucosides! Bad enuff from the spores, hate to think what the sores might produce.

But seriously, it looks a nasty little bugger -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptaquiloside

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....Oh just look at it masquerading with its
Croziers, fronds, rhizomes.... when really (to ommit the swanky words) make it an increasing biological hazard in modern days....lots to hate....do we need 'LOCKDOWN' or will a herd of Highland Cattle stomping about (with attendent Herdspeople suitablably PPEed naturally) save the day.... I bet Chris Twitty has known about it for some time now and PPE is on its way from China as we speak....

....When you hear the word Rhizomes....you know yr in trouble...

[Count Boso]

... oh, them norsesquiterpene glucosides! Bad enuff from the spores, hate to think what the sores might produce.

But seriously, it looks a nasty little bugger -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptaquiloside

Great heavens! I had no idea people ate them!

[jayne lee wilson]

Usual sound advice here....

https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=445

Garden full of them & other ferns........ let it grow, let it flow....