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If the stinging nettle stings
that it is covered with tiny darts
the stem like the leaves
kind of swollen hand brittle
containing a cocktail irritant
of histamine, serotonin, acetylcholine and many other stuff...
At the slightest touch these needles break
penetrates the skin and injects the liquid stinging
1:10,000 of mg is sufficient to cause blistering and irritation
In addition it is never a solitary nettle that we cross
Nettle moved to band in solid
young explorer in shorts when we were children
know something about
Because nettle is a plant has rhizomes
she weaves a network of underground creeping roots
stolons rhythm at regular intervals of nodules
from which vertical stems of nettles
So on a beautiful square meter of nettle
is most often a single individual to whom one is confronted
and not hundreds as one might think
this system of vegetative reproduction says
ensures a large force nettle colonization and persistence
through the nettle
it's actually our relationship to the wilderness that is subject
such that we know little and which is beyond our control.