the new zealand stinging nettle looks vicious and delivers a very painful sting

admiral aotearoa arranged butterfly deciduous endemic evergreen ferocious ferox food genus green herbaceous large leaf leaves maori margin midvein name nasty native nettle node okaoka ongaonga oppositely ovulatetriangulate painful pale plant red salient serrated shrub source spikes spines spiny stalk stalks stem stems stiff sting stinging stipules surface taraonga taraongaonga tree two urtica vicious winter woody zealand