Re: Identify and kill "wild rhubarb?"

In article <rivergarden.2a24707@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 rivergarden <rivergarden.2a24707@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Hi all. As i've said before I'm brand new to gardening so I hope this is
> an obvious question and easily answered. I have inherited a fairly damp
> garden and a plant that I was told was wild rhubarb, though looking on
> the net I would say not, is sprouting up everywhere. 
> 
> Its description follows: very rapidly growing, starts with red fairly
> think single shoot, growing to 1 inch wide single stem with thin broad
> leafed branches forming wide leafy canopy. Stems are hollow in nature
> and are green with red flecks. Live plants are easily snapped making it
> impossible to pull the roots up via the stalk. Dead plant forms brittle
> fragile hollow tubes to about 2m tall. 
> 
> My questions as I say are what is it? has it any use - edible? How do I
> make it die - bearing in mind its everywhere making it nearly impossible
> to dig up.
> 
> Any thoughts?

 A wild guess.

Bill

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_cabbage>

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