Thread: Urtica ferox / ongaonga /tree nettle

We come across nettle in lots of places down here, always in those dark, damp guts and gullies. I've had a number of belts from it but generally it doesn't bother me too much and after the initial pain I get a day or so of tingling. The first time I came across it was in the Urewera's and I tried to wash the stinging area in a creek to remove the pain. That actually semed to make it worse and it took severals days to stop tingling. So I learned that if stung, the best thing to do was nothing... not to rub it or wash it. I wish I knew about those natural remedies mentioned here!

Which leads me to the next question - is the stuff you have in the NI stronger than the stuff we have down here in the SI?