Dodge:
Yes agree, looks like caster oil plant which are prolific growers as has been already said above.
aussiebasser:
Castor oil plant (Ricinus communis) Castor bean fruit has been found in ancient Egyptian sarcophagi among the objects that should accompany the dead in their voyage through the Land of Death. The castor oil plant has large palm-shaped leaves with 7-9 portions, cluster-like blossoms and prickly fruits, each carrying 3 seeds. All parts are poisonous, especially the beans. Castor beans affect all animals and humans. Even one of them may be sufficient to cause death. They contain some of the strongest toxins of our planet’s flora: the alkaloid ricinin and the toxalbumin ricin, the latter being a plant lectin, or protein, more toxic even than strychnos and cyanides. What is more, it has the ability to accumulate in the organism until the lethal dose is reached. The symptoms then are nausea and vomiting, stomach ache, bloody diarrhoea, headache, cold sweat, sleepiness, disorientation, fever, shortage of breath, seizures, followed by a collapse and death. It is also cultivated in many other countries as an ornamental annual plant 1-2 m high. In the U.S.A., it also grows in waste areas and roadsides. 50-70% of its seed content is thick fatty oil, which contains vitamins A and D–the so-called castor oil. It has been used as a purgative in medicine since ancient times.
bushwacker:
Peice of piss to get a chip hoe under them and get the roots out tho :popcorn)
Steve
Novice:
--- Quote from: WayneD on October 19, 2011, 11:26:08 PM ---No idea on the weed but damn those snags look good. Did you pull any bass from there?
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Not from that snag Wayne. There's heaps of that type of structure in that part of the river.
Thanks guys for the info on this plant.
Cheers, Dave.
Double-M:
The leaves look like Castor Oil Plant. Castor Oil plant has thorns / slikes on the stems too. It is also the plant from which ricin, one of the most toxic poisons, is made. Do NOT muck around with the fruit / seed pods.