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On nettles, they're trichomes[1]. Probably somewhat similar to a skin tag? So it deactivates them by weakening the cell wall, just like when you cook the rest o
by kulahan 1y ago
On nettles, they're trichomes[1]. Probably somewhat similar to a skin tag? So it deactivates them by weakening the cell wall, just like when you cook the rest of the plant down.
>Both trichomes and root hairs [...] are lateral outgrowths of a single cell of the epidermal layer.
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichome