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Fishbonker

Fishbonker

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Found this weed in the brasicas. Anybody.know what it is?

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That was my first attempt at sending from my new and very confusing phone. Pics are smallish. It looks like a prickly buckeye. I havent opened it yet.
 
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Bonk if you look in your settings you can change the attachment size (quality). Open settings (you will have to make them visible by opening with a hardware button or whatever your phone uses as soon as you open the app. I use the ultra setting. You will still need to enlarge by clicking on the pictures when viewing.
 
Its called Gypsum [spelling?] weed. Its a nasty toxic weed that grows in our overgrazed horse pens. The seed pods open up and drop a ton of poisonous seeds and spreads fast. Some kids OD'ed a while back brewing the seeds in a tea to catch a buzz. It comes up late in the spring and easy to get rid of by spraying or I just cut it by hand. When its green never mow it and get down wind or you will get sick as a dog. It smells horrible. If you can cut it and burn it, without dumping a bunch of seeds do it.
 
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Its called Gypsum [spelling?] weed. Its a nasty toxic weed that grows in our overgrazed horse pens. The seed pods open up and drop a ton of poisonous seeds and spreads fast. Some kids OD'ed a while back brewing the seeds in a tea to catch a buzz. It comes up late in the spring and easy to get rid of by spraying or I just cut it by hand. When its green never mow it and get down wind or you will get sick as a dog. It smells horrible. If you can cut it and burn it, without dumping a bunch of seeds do it.
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Yep thats it, had some come up in a newly dozed patch...along with some bull thistle and some other prickly invasive....not counting the morning glory that came up there too.....life is good. :D

They will all get hammered with some herbicide this year, can't let that stuff get started or it will take over.
 
It seems like it always grows anywhere soil has been dormant for a long time. Dozer work seems to most popular place I've had it grow.Never knew what it was.
 
Jimson weed. Huh. This was the first time in many years, 20 at least, that this ground has been tilled. In the past this was either just brome type grass or clover. I glyhoped and frost seeded clover a few years ago.

Thanks for the info.
 
I thought I read on here one time that thistle seed can lay dormant for 16years. There was another seed that was a noxsious weed that lasted almost aslong as well.
 
Grandpa always called it "pig weed" since it always seemed to grow in overgrazed hog lots.

"Jimson Weed (Datura stramonium) otherwise known as Gypsum Weed, Stink Weed, Loco Weed, Jamestown Weed, Thorn Apple, Angel’s Trumpet, and Devil’s Trumpet among others, is a common weed that grows though out the US and Canada as well as the rest of the world."

If you eat any part of the plant you can experience true hallucinations, the problem is the amount needed to produce the effect and the amount that will kill may not be very far apart. So it’s just a good rule to leave this plant alone since it kills a few people every year. The Navajo had a saying about Datura, ‘Eat a little, and go to sleep. Eat some more, and have a dream. Eat some more, and don’t wake up.’

All parts of Jimsonweed are poisonous. Leaves and seeds are the usual source of poisoning, but are rarely eaten do to its strong odor and unpleasant taste. Poisoning can occur when hungry animals are on sparse pasture with Jimsonweed infestation. Most animal poisoning results from feed contamination. Jimsonweed can be harvested with hay or silage, and subsequently poisoning occurs upon feeding the forage. Seeds can contaminate grains and is the most common poisoning which occurs in chickens.
Poisoning is more common in humans than in animals. Children can be attracted by flowers and consume Jimsonweed accidentally. In small quantities, Jimsonweed can have medicinal or haulucinagenic properties, but poisoning readily occurs because of misuse. Ingestion of Jimsonweed caused the mass poisoning of soldiers in Jamestown, Virginia in 1676.
Jimsonweed toxicity is caused by tropane alkaloids. The total alkaloid content in the plant can be as high as 0.7%. The toxic chemicals are atropine, hyoscine (also called scopolamine), and hyoscyamine.


Don't even think about feeding it to a cat Bonks!!! :grin:
 
Wow, I knew that stuff made me pretty sick. I thought I was gonna die the first time I bushhogged a big patch of it on a calm summer day. I never saw it before, living in Nebraska, then when I moved here 14 years ago, it took off in the old drylots. Gotta play the wind when dealing with this stuff, if you dont kill it when its small.
 
This will age me but in the old cowboy movies you would here them talk about their cows eating "loco weed"...or a if a person was acting crazy they would say he must have eaten "loco weed".....bad news weed when kids try to get high/halucinate on it and end up "pushing up the daiseys".....another cowboy reference.
 
If this is what I think it is, we had a trouble getting rid of it on land we purchased a while ago. We ended up having to pull them out 1 by 1 because they kept growing back. I'm not sure if they are the same but the weeds we had had purple flower looking things on top. It was a long time ago, and I can't remember to well.
 
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