hootiwai or bidi bidi is its common/maori name..the curse of north island sheep farmers....if you dont get sheep shorn before it starts to stick....very very low wool check.
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I dont mind onga onga always looked hard at patches in spring likely a deer feeding on it - but bloody hook grass - yup ice cold river crossing and into the hook grass bracing stuff -we used a 6 ft strip of light canvas as a putty and bound that round our bullers and socks - no fancy mac pac gaiters back then -I remember hearing the sound of an animal moving and feeding in big onga onga patch - snuck in and looked and looked - sound of a deer feeding really close put scope up and hind eyeballing me from about 5 ft in front of barrel -she was right in the bloody middle of it - 222. below the chin and then 10mins with knive getting the her out
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Is this stuff the same as stinging nettle over in Aus?
If so, if boil it you can eat that.
no - native ongaonga (urtica ferox ) highly likely different plant -ongaonga grows up to 3 metres and can be in big groves metres wide --there is a small nettle I call english nettle - grows only about 250cm quite often on banks or wasteland as a weed - that can be eaten apparently - maybe like puha needs to be washed and sap gently squeezed out - one of those people who forage for edible weeds will likely know
looked it up for you botanical folks - our big stinging nettle native to NZ is Urtica Ferox onga onga -the small edible nettle is Urtica Urens introduced from Europe there ya go -ya learn something dumb every day - nah just fucken bored no driving on hay silage to wet
We ate a ton of stinging nettle in Nepal. Was on a 6 week trek in the early 1980's and the porters were sent out each evening with a basket on their heads and a stick with a fork split into the end. They would snap the stinging nettle off at ground level with the stick, and shake it off into the basket. Boiled up it tasted like fish soup.
As a shrub it stung like buggery, just like ours does.
Dam i nearly walked in to a patch of ongaonga in the Whirinaki's if it wasn't for Rushy i would have walked though it