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Nettles

Nettles - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Beauty and Pain, Pain and Beauty

Nettles. I remember getting stung badly by Nettles as a child. What stopped the stinging wasn’t rubbing my poor legs with Dock …

Urtica - The Hall of Einar - photograph (c) David Bailey (not the)

Urtica

There are lots of Nettles at Einar. Their scientific name is Urtica dioica, with urtica meaning to burn. They certainly do.