A mum has warned parents to be careful after her children were left with painful burns and blisters after coming into contact with a toxic plant.
Rebecca Barnes said a brush with giant hogweed's poisonous sap left her two kids needing hospital treatment. Son Reggie, seven, and daughter Roma, five, were rushed to Salisbury District Hospital for urgent treatment after touching the plant while playing.
If it had gone in their eyes, they would have been blinded for life. A River Trust expert warned "It is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most dangerous plant in Britain." Giant hogweed can tower at 23ft tall like a Triffid, and children are attracted to it because the hollow stems of the plant make ideal peashooters.
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