How to Avoid Giant Hogweed, the Plant That Causes Severe Burns
by Beth Skwarecki on Vitals, shared by Beth Skwarecki from Lifehacker on (#3SNTC)
Do not touch this plant. If you get some of the sap on your skin, chemicals in the sap will attack the DNA in your skin cells and make you sensitive to the sun. So sensitive, in fact, that normal sun exposure can give you a blistering sunburn-like rash that takes weeks or months to go away.