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Innsbruck – Konrad Pagitz is a tall man. But the giant hogweed was bigger. The director of the Neophytes-Tirol competence center had it in his hands yesterday at the Botanical Garden in Innsbruck when the state and the university presented their neophyte strategy for Tyrol. LHStv. Ingrid Felipe was next to him with an equally large leaf of the plant. They both wore gloves to protect themselves.
The giant hogweed is poisonous. If it comes into contact with the skin and the sun also illuminates it, even up to two days later, burns occur, as Pagitz explains. Contact can cause allergic shock. It is also problematic for asthmatics. Calves that eat it can die from it.
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