Untrimmed contact print with wide border from a wet collodion negative. Bazar Nadar / Wouter Lambrechts The photograph was probably made at Kew Botanical Gardens in London.
The introduction of Heracleum mantegazzianum, commonly known as giant hogweed, was first recorded in Great Britain in 1817 when it was put on the seed list at the Kew Botanic Gardens in London. By 1828, the first natural population was recorded, growing wild in Cambridgeshire, England.
