Heracleum sphondylium aka Eltrot

Heracleum sphondylium, also known as hogweed, common hogweed or cow parsnip, is a herbaceous perennial or biennial plant found in Europe and Asia. It belongs to the Apiaceae family, which includes fennel, cow parsley, ground elder, and giant hogweed. The plant has a hollow, ridged stem with bristly hairs and can grow up to 2 meters in height. Its leaves are once or twice pinnate, hairy, and serrated, divided into 3-5 lobed segments. The plant has 5-petalled pinkish or white flowers arranged in umbels of up to 30 cm in diameter, with 15 to 30 rays. The peripheral flowers have a radial symmetry, and the terminal umbels are flat-topped with enlarged outermost petals. The plant is pollinated by insects such as beetles, wasps, and flies. The small fruits are schizocarps, flattened and winged, elliptical to rounded and glabrous, up to 1 cm long. The seed dispersal is by wind. The plant provides a great deal of nectar for pollinators and was rated in the top 10 for most nectar production in a UK plants survey. The leaves are commonly mined by the larvae of the leaf miner Phytomyza spondylii. However, the plant contains some of the same phytophototoxic compounds as giant hogweed and Sosnowsky's hogweed, albeit at lower concentrations, and there is evidence that the sap from common hogweed can also produce phytophotodermatitis (burns and rashes) when contaminated skin is exposed to sunlight. Care, therefore, needs to be used when cutting or trimming it, to prevent 'strimmers rash'. Before the inflorescences appear, the weed can be dug up, and mowing can be used in an area with a lot of growth. Eltrot, another name for the plant, is a super rare houseplant that needs regular watering and does best in long-lasting, direct light. It likes soil that is well-draining and may require a gentle, organic fertilizer throughout the peak growing season.