“We thought, wouldn’t it be fun to take something as nasty and objectionable as hogweed and make something useful out of it,” said co-author Zoya Bobyleva of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
A boy has been left with blisters on his body after coming into contact with a toxic plant. Jenson, nine, was stung by a giant hogweed in Ryhope Park, Sunderland, while trying to fetch a football.