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Phototoxicity – Beware the plants that burn!
12.06.2023 - 10:05 / growlikegrandad.co.uk
We’ve probably all heard the horror stories about severe skin burns from Giant Hogweed exposure (all Putin’s fault according to the Daily Express), but not many people realise that there are many other plants in the Apiaceae family capable of causing the same damage. At my allotment site earlier this year a fellow plot holder was quite badly burned after strimming her overgrown plot. I believe her arms and legs were exposed and as a consequence, when she cut through the weeds, she was covered in tiny bits of toxic sap which burned her skin. This was not caused by giant hogweed (as she first hypothesised) but by common hogweed which grows in abundance all over our allotments in Dorking. It grows quite large, sometimes up to eight feet tall with big thick stems, but not as tall as its giant cousin Heracleum mantegazzianum.
Most members of the Apiaceae / Umbelliferae family contain chemical compounds called furanocoumarins. These furanocoumarins have evolved to protect plants from insects, herbivores and fungal pathogens, even bacteria are destroyed 1. One key furanocoumarin found in the Heracleum genus of plants is called bergapten, a derivative of its parent psoralen, it is photo-activated. This means that when combined with sunlight, bergapten becomes activate and on contact with skin it damages the cells right down to the level of the DNA itself. Serious stuff, you can’t just wipe it off!
At a basic level exposure to sap from an umbellifer causes phytophotodermatitis on the affected area, at its worst requiring hospitalisation. The effects can last for years afterwards especially when the affected area is again exposed to sunlight. At a more serious level it can contribute towards skin cancer through cell mutation.
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