Heracleum mantegazzianum

[Dune]

A new plant I'm making, not completely finished yet. Giant hogweed, beautiful but can inflict terrible skin blisters. Can grow up to 4m high!

[Stormlord]

WOW
The plant looks very good, well done Dune!

STORMLORD

[sboerner]

Yes, this is a plant you definitely don't want to mess with. It is an invasive species here but fortunately very rare. It's smaller cousin, wild parsnip, is more plentiful and just as dangerous.

Cool models.

[masonspappy]

Great model and detail.
Around here (South East US) we've been seeing reports of people who got really messed up after physically contacting hogweed

[Dune]

If you DuckDuckGo (trying to avoid Google) the species, you'll see the terrible blisters. No fun indeed. Here's another more elaborate 'test'.

[Hannes]

Stunning!!! Looks fantastic!
There's an old Genesis song named "The return of the giant hogweed". At the time I thought the song is about a giant named "Hogweed".

[DocCharly65]

That looks so harmonic and beautiful! Like in a fairy tale world.

[Dune]

Until you're touched by the bastards!

[DocCharly65]

The giant hogweed was voted poisonous plant of the year in 2008. Your best bet is to render protective clothing for your actors

[Dune]

[Dune]

I made some new species like field thistle, ragwort, Himalayan balsam, wild carrot, and madder, quickly put together here for testing.

[DocCharly65]

I don't know how to tell the difference between this and a photo 

Great! I love it!

[Hannes]

Absolutely amazing plants, Ulco! Looks unbelievably realistic.

[Lady of the Lake]

OMGosh, this is wonderful.

[WAS]

Oh wow, great work. Yeah we got Heracleum maximum around here or "Cow Parsnip". No fun. Lol

Does field thistle really grow so many flowers? That's crazy! Ours here wild grow a single flower, maybe two extras if it's been accidentally topped by nature and split. They tend to grow in a stalk.