Unidentified photographer
n.d.
Hogweed

Albumen print, from wet collodion negative
21.3 x 17.8 cm
 
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.
 
LL/127488