Europe is next? How the USSR was conquered by a killer plant
A mistake by Soviet scientists brought to the fields a real terminator among plants. Dangerous, indestructible, filling all abandoned areas. Not surprisingly, the fine for it reaches 1 million rubles, because now it is the main threat to agriculture throughout Europe. Have you figured out what kind of plant we’re talking about yet?
Why is it really possible to cook borscht from such a poisonous weed as the so-called “hogwort”? In part, only in part. Some species of hogweed are quite edible, their young leaves suitable for soups and salads in spring. In some regions of the Caucasus and Kamchatka, local varieties of hogweed have firmly taken their place on the menu.
But we are not interested in the usual harmless Siberian boletus. Only one of its species is really dangerous, namely the Sosnovsky’s hogwort. By the way, the scientist whose name the hog uterus bears, did not have a hand in the breeding of the most dangerous hybrid. How did the Sosnovsky’s hogwort uterus appear?
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the story
There’s a lot more to this story than meets the eye. Up to the fact that it was specially bred by the CIA to harm Soviet agriculture. As is often the case, the truth is much more prosaic.
In 1944, biologist Ida Mandenova discovered and classified the fully known to residents and incessant scientists species the hogwort. She named it after her teacher, Sosnowsky. Heracleum Sosnowskyi Manden is the Latin name for this species.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Why did Sosnowsky’s borage grow in the Caucasus in limited areas, but in the USSR it grew like the plague? The reason is that Sosnovsky’s hogweed is endemic, i.e., characteristic only of a certain place.
“There is no movement, ships move!” – The boundaries were defined by the Caucasus Mountains themselves with their climate at different altitudes. “Borschik Sosnovsky grew up at high altitudes and needed human help to get down from them.
The help was not long in coming. During the WWE, they were looking for ways to improve the caloric content of silage. One of the participants of this program was our hero. Studies were conducted in the northern regions, in which wormwood, shown to the mountain colds, showed itself just fine. In addition, the scientists praised its stability, ease and cheapness in growing and the huge yield – more than a thousand quintals of green mass per HA.
Studies continued until the mid-1950s, Sosnovsky’s horseshoe was still in the RAO UES, until at one of the plenums a fateful decision was made to give the promising object a go and start with the Baltic. Further results quickly demonstrated the fallacy of this decision. By the way, problems could have been avoided. In Norway, long before that, many years ago, they had tried to fatten cows on the size of hufer Montegazzi and found a strong decrease in milk quality, the experiment was a success.
The result was what happened. It was quickly confirmed that Sosnovsky’s hogwort makes the Soviet cows drink bitter milk for themselves as well. Then it turned out that it was also a rather tormented fruit and with mangled chromosomes. The fact that Kosnowsky’s hogwort is dangerous to humans has not yet clearly spread. In general, it is strange that an “evil” of two very similarly sized related species has been chosen. It is fair to say that the same “northern star” was bred in the late 80’s relative to non-varietal varieties, but it was already too late.
One can only guess why Soviet scientists did not pay attention to the data of scientists from Norway. Here is Lysenko with his dictatorial manners and post-war war cross “These quislingists understood nothing but Black Metal!” The reasons, as a rule, are no longer recognized.
The end result was expected. Suddenly it turned out that the Scandinavians had nothing, and the Soviet peasants faced the same problems. Sosnovsky’s hogweed “came into its own,” and it was only for ungroomed life.
In the Baltic states, Sosnovsky’s hogweed became an official disaster in the late 1980s. In Russia, it took 20 years to officially recognize the obvious problem – Sosnovyak borschtivik had waged an agricultural lightning war and conquered colossal areas across the country. Sosnovsky’s borschtikov is the only object, for which they are fined (without a direct prohibition of the Criminal Code), and in general they are fined up to one million rubles for a legal entity.
Borschtikov is a real giant under the weeds!
What is the danger of Sosnovsky hogweed?
For plants.
In short, it kills all plants and does not allow itself to be killed.
1) A tiny fraction of the Hog Moth population can bloom several times a season.
2) Left a piece of root with a bud? Expect a new Hogweed.
3) The seeds are ripe.
4) Self is the enemy. No bee? No problem, he’ll do it himself.
5) Extraordinary growth bending.
6) The essential oils on the seeds slow the growth of other plants.
For humans.
Hogwort requires strict clothing and a mask that covers the entire face. And therefore.
It is incorrect to say that hogweed must be poison in the classic sense of the word. In fact, the juice of hogwort uterus contains macarines. And they only protect human skin from ultraviolet radiation. Therefore, the terrible burns from hogweed are not caused by the juice, but by the sun’s rays.
Therefore, in everyday life, it is recommended to mow it at night to avoid burns. And here you can’t do without a site light. Fortunately, now there is a good, bright and comfortable, inexpensive model with almost and high illumination – Workkos HD15 (review).
But getting juice in your eyes can cause blindness. And if inhaled, the sap can cause swelling of the larynx.
How do you fight Sosnowsky’s hogweed?
Unfortunately, conventional mowing, even discus, has a very short-lived effect. Literally, in a few weeks, the weeds will rise again. Only systematic control, which will last more than one season, can help.
If you do not have to report or avoid a fine, if you really want to defeat Sosnowsky’s Kuh-Pastinaceae, the process will be long, dreary and multi-component: mowing (take it out but burn it), discus (several times) Loose soil, soil covered with opaque foil. Covered for a long time, so that the fallen seeds do not sprout. After removing the foil, you need to quickly sow the country with some plant that replaces the bear thorns. Topinambur or lupine are famous here.
You have to work hard, dig a lot. Fortunately, I have already told you about the wonderful Tornadik-Gruber, with the help of which even a woman can dig a vegetable garden and dig holes. It’s a surprisingly cheap thing that has provided me with faithful service at the cottage.
However, all this only makes sense if there are no other Sosnovsky Berenclau parcels within at least a half-kilometer radius. As it is. Otherwise, your seeds will quickly reach the stodgy ground.
If you have any experience with a bear, please let me know in the comments!
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St. John’s wort or nightshade
Young plants and petioles can be eaten – processed into soups, pickled or used as a condiment. “If there were cowpastinaceous and sonnail, I’d be full without bread.”
St. John’s wort or nightshade
St. John’s wort or nightshade
Young plants and petioles can be eaten – processed into soups, pickled or used as a condiment. “If there were cowpastinaceous and sonnail, I’d be full without bread.”
Young plants and leaves can be used as food – to make soups, cucumbers, or to use as a condiment. “There would be horseshoes a-ja to pull – and without bread we are fed.” The use of hogweed in the diet is varied. The young stems are eaten raw and peeled from the scalp. They can be chopped, boiled with boiling water and salt, or rolled in flour and fried in oil. Broth from hogwort uterus resembles chicken or mushroom broth. Borovaya uterus Kolya can be substituted in borscht and travel, in Siberia it is dressed with young leaves. Borscht is salted, infused, dried, and then added to soups, garnishes to second courses, from which caviar is prepared. Infused or dried young shoots or sticks of hogweed leaves were used instead of cucumbers.
Torsema – ground hogwort (lat. Heraaclēum sphondylīum) is a herbaceous dicotyledonous plant of the Borschmoss umbrella genus. Folk names are barse, bodran, bolsha k-Gigliese, boretz, borscht, borschovka, verloma, woodpecker, woodpecker, goat, cow, fleecy, pork, pig’s cheek. The plant is edible, as in the Russian language, in the old days it was called “borsch”. In ancient times, this word meant somewhat jagged, such a name the plant received for the shape of the leaves. Young greens of these plants were used for cooking dishes, which, therefore, were called “Borsch”, in addition to boletus uterus there were prescribed other vegetables, but in time “Borsch” XVII I-C. -century to use, and “Borsch” of the XVII I- century. Already soup with bugs and the plant itself in the literature, which was called in the language “Borshnevik”. When we talk about hogweed, we most often mean the huge Sosnowsky hogweed, whose sap, when exposed to sunlight, can cause severe burns on the skin. However, horseshoe grasses are a whole family in the broad sense, and most of them are safe and even beneficial.
Below you will find the nutritional properties and cooking recipes of the borscht or borscht plant
Medicinal properties and recipes from the plant Borscht or Borovaya uterus ordinary
St. John’s wort or nightshade
Botanical Description
The common borschtchweed is usually 50 to 120 centimeters high, but some specimens can reach a height of 2 meters. The stem and leaves are covered with stiff hairs. The stem is thick, angry and hollow. The leaves are gathered in the main exodus, long-petioled, very large; They may be ternate, twice ternate, or pinnately dissected with segments of various shapes. The flowers have pink and reddish intermediates. Each flower has 5 petals. The diameter of the inflorescence rarely exceeds 20 centimeters. The stem is ribbed, covered with short bristles. The leaves have 3 to 5 segments and are covered with hairs, as is the trunk. Blooms from June to August-September, depending on seasonal conditions.
Cowpea is common throughout the Saratov region, although this species is rare. The grass grows along forest edges between bushes on the banks of rivers and streams; large thickets occur in damp, high-grass meadows in linden and pine forests.
Nutritional value
Its chemical composition includes up to 10% of sugar and 16% of protein. The above-ground part of hogwort contains a lot of vitamin C and carotene (provitamin A). And also rare trace elements – iron, nickel, copper, manganese, titanium, boron, which are necessary for normal biochemical processes in the body.
In folk medicine, decoctions and infusions of roots, leaves and seeds are used to stimulate the appetite, for indigestion, as an antispasmodic for diarrhea, intestinal and gastric catarrh, and as a sedative. Decoctions of the roots improves digestion, has astringent, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and antiseptic. Decoctions of roots hogwort recommended to drink when indigestion as a choleretic and mild laxative, with toothache, inflammation of the lymph nodes, as a sedative, they are used for neuroses, hysterical attacks and nervous tics. Outwardly decoction of bear claw used for itchy dermatosis. Decoction of seeds of hogwort acts as a diarrheal and astringent in dysentery. Juice from various species of wormwood is used to treat purulent wounds and ulcers. An aqueous infusion of cut wormwood is used to stimulate the appetite, regulate digestion, and in diarrhea, catarrh of the stomach and intestines. An infusion and decoction of cut wormwood roots is recommended for epilepsy, seizures and various central nervous system disorders. Used internally and externally for skin diseases, neurodermatitis, furunculosis. Compresses of steamed wormwood leaves applied to the joints with rheumatic swelling and pain.
Infusion of leaves is used in folk medicine for diarrhea, and decoction – for gastrointestinal colic, colitis, neurosis and especially epilepsy, as well as analgesic and choleretic agent; externally – to treat boils, itching dermatosis. The roots of upland uterus destroy gallstones. Berenclau improves appetite, has antispasmodic properties. Externally it is used – for scabies, skin diseases, tumors, in the treatment of trichomonad colpitis. In spastic pain – the seeds. The roots and fruits are part of complex medicinal mixtures used in diseases of the kidneys, cholelithiasis, as well as a styptic. Fruits are used for gastrointestinal and gynecological diseases, lymphadenitis, anthrax, furunculosis. The essential oil of the fruit has fungicidal action.
Infusion of leaves is used in folk medicine for diarrhea, and decoction – for gastrointestinal colic, colitis, neurosis and especially epilepsy, as well as analgesic and choleretic agent; externally – to treat boils, itching dermatosis.
There are many umbrella plants similar in appearance. Familiarize yourself with these species so you know how to distinguish them from poisonous wormwood and hemlock.
Berenclaw medium – grows throughout Europe. It reaches 1.5 to 2 meters in height. Often many people met it as a child, made pipes of it and in doing so did not get problems in the form of burns. Now they mistake it for a dangerous species and accidentally get severe burns.
Hogwort Siberian uterus (or pican) – grows both in Siberia and in the European part of Russia. It is up to two meters tall. The appearance is characterized by the following features: the flowers are yellow and yellow-green, and the trunk is covered with hairs. It is used for medicinal purposes and for food.
Split bear claw (or wispy claw) – similar to Sosnowsky bear claw, but slightly smaller. It is used in folk medicine and is also edible.
Angelica (or angelica) is a medicinal plant up to 2.5 meters tall. It is easily distinguished from the poisonous Berenclaw by its flowers. The inflorescences are only about 20 cm in diameter.
Hemlock is another poisonous plant that poses a danger to humans. It is not terrible for burns, but its poison contains a substance that slowly paralyzes the nervous system and stops breathing.
Wormwood is a safe edible herb. It is only 1-1.5 meters tall and its leaves are tricuspid, so you can easily distinguish it from the pine hogweed.
Borshnevik mossy, or bear’s paw, is a harmless plant of the umbrella family. It is used as a spice. It reaches a height of 1.5 meters.
Pine hogwort is a poisonous plant, all its parts are dangerous and have the ability to cause severe and long-lasting burns. It reaches a height of 3 m, the root goes deep into the ground up to 2 m, the leaves end in small thorns, reach 1.2 m wide and 1.5 m long, the flowers are huge umbrellas up to 40 cm in diameter, with up to 80,000 flowers.
St. John’s wort or nightshade
