severe allergic reaction caused by unknown plant

Hi just wondered if anyone could help. My partner has had a very bad allergic reaction after working on the garden of the house my parents have just bought (it's in the middle of the country so could be a wild plant that's caused it). My father has taken pics of the possible culprits but I have no idea what they are let alone if they can cause the rashes and huge blistering of the skin he's come out in! I'm hoping somebody would be able to identify them so we can look up if they are known for causing problems. Really would like to get to bottom of it as have small nieces that will be playing there. Thankyou!

 

Welcome to GC GO1982. Someone more knowledgeable than me will be along soon who can identify the plants you've shown.

I think the trouble with allergic reactions is that what affects one person might not affect another. The only plant that I have a bad allergic reaction to is goosegrass - I have the same symptons as your partner with that. Was there any of that around?

 

Sounds like Euphorbia/Spurge. I get the same reaction. Off to check your pics....

 

Perhaps it was the Bryony (pics 1,2 &6)?

http://www.luontoportti.com/suomi/en/kukkakasvit/white-bryony

 

Bryony, eupatorium?, goose-grass, acanthus mollis, I spotted. Goose grass is prickly and rough which might irritate tender skin. Bryony is in the deadly nightshade family, worth investigating that one. Acanthus shouldn't be a problem, I dug a load up the other night. I think that flower spike is acanthus as well as the leaves. Eupatorium - not sure, check that one.

I've seen bad reactions from common rue and also

 

Thankyou for all your replies! I'll keep an eye out for goose grass when next up there. Seems that the Bryony is the most likely at present so think that will have to go with little people about putting things in their mouths they shouldn't! If pics 1,2 and 6 are Bryony and 3 and 4 Acanthus does that mean pic 5 is Eupatorium?

 

This is eupatorium, not sure but they do look similar.

 

Ah yes see what you mean, does look like it. As for White Bryony, the more I read the more it sounds like most likely to be the cause of rash. Thankyou everyone for pointing it out as parents have a dog and it says online that it can be fatal to them if they ingest juice from the plant! It keeps popping up in list entitled top most 'deadly' plants...who new!

 

I doubt the dog would, the juice smells foul and tastes awful ... not uncommon for poisonous plants, otherwise (given how many plants are poisonous) there would be far more fatalities (I thought the only part that was poisonous was the sap in the root, rather than the stem, but I could be wrong ... that's not to say that contact with the leaves won't cause allergic reaction in some people of course)

Better safe than sorry, and all that, but purging all poisonous plants from a garden would be throwing out the baby with the bathwater IMHO

 

He was ripping it up in places to put in a summer house so could be the stem that's caused it, but it says it comes from berries and leaves to like you say so think on this occasion will definitely throw Not worth risking looking at state of partners skin, it looks like he's been in a fire and don't want to risk same happening to children. Still can't believe a plant can do that :/

 

No Euphorbia on your patch is there? The sap from that would be very likely to cause that reaction.