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Medicinal and culinary uses of nettles
Learn about the medicinal and nutritional properties of nettles.
Video: Contunico © ZDF Studios GmbH, Mainz
See how stinging nettle grows in spring
Time-lapse video, filmed over four weeks, of stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)...
Video: Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica).
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Gympie-gympie (Dendrocnide moroides), a potentially lethal species of Australian...
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ramie
Ramie (Boehmeria nivea).
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