Poison Ivy... I'll give it one thing

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RBoots

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• Oct 5, 2016

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Ok, 2 things.
1. It is VERY colorful
2. It still makes me itch
Maybe it's so colorful because it's like those Amazon jungle frogs. Super bright and noticeable, so you're not tempted to mess with it lol.

 

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RBoots

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• Oct 5, 2016

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Oops, and 2 farm pictures from today. One in the daylight taken behind my shop looking towards our woods, and the dawn picture of a friend's farm in the area I work.

 

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DENNIS MIN

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• Oct 5, 2016

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RBoots,

You've go to ne kidding! That is way too tall! Maybe I'm wrong, but the largest ivy I have seen (grown) gets about chest high, and plenty nasty with the itchiness and red sores for about 2 weeks.

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Is it perhaps poison oak? I hark from the ivy capital of Minnesota.

D.

 

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Dean

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• Oct 5, 2016

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Poison Ivy is a vine. It will climb trees to great heights.

It can be spectacular in the fall.

Dean

 

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Richard G.

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• Oct 5, 2016

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Poison ivy grows 20 feet or more up the trees around here.
Richard in NW SC

 

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Dave H (MI)

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• Oct 5, 2016

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That upright ivy puts out a lot of fruit and spreads like crazy. I watch for it in my woodlot and cut it off at the base. What springs up from the roots is sprayed with glyphosphate. The stuff on the ground can be grazed also. I have to keep it under control as I have a bad reaction to it.

 

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RBoots

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• Oct 5, 2016

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Yep Dennis, poison ivy! It seems I get it if I even look back at it. It really likes the dead ash trees, or maybe it just shows up better with lack of foliage on the dead trees. Cutting roadsides last year I cut a few ash and cherry that were fully covered all the way around by poison ivy vines up to 3" in diameter. We usually throw the pieces off the road by hand, into the woods or into the chipper. Those ones that were so covered in it, I cut down very carefully to not get any sawdust on me, then had our loader come out and shove them into the woods. I didn't want to run then through the chipper and have all that poison ivy dust floating through the air.

 

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Northvale - PA

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• Oct 5, 2016

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The worst rash I ever got was from the sawdust in the winter. Left scars.

 

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mozark

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• Oct 5, 2016

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It gets me too, I hate the stuff. I had a small amount grow up in the fence next to the garden. I didn't want to spray 2,4 D or glyophosphate around the garden so I figured I'd paint the leaves with a very small amount of used oil. Never phased it, looked like I had put fertilizer on it. I figured a light coating of used oil would kill anything, wrong.

 

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Ted in NE-OH

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• Oct 5, 2016

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When I was about 10 years old , I went to summer camp. Every camper took a pocket knife. I decided to liberate this tree with my pocket knife from this vine growing up it. I was a city kid and did not know what poison ivy was, boy did I get a case of it. One eye was swollen shut. Had to be taken to a doctor.

 

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kruser

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• Oct 5, 2016

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Pretty - BUT I hate it when I work in the woods and have to take a pee!

 

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4play

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• Oct 5, 2016

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I have seen free standing plants a couple feet tall but when the vines infest trees they can go real high 20+ feet. If you see vines going up a tree and they have little brownish or reddish hairs coming out of the vine then it's probably poison ivy.

 

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2x4

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• Oct 5, 2016

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friend of mine discovered the same thing 35 yrs ago, oil won't work. What really kills it is p__ing on the leaves, vine or roots (from a safe distance). After a week of 'watering' it the plant dies & never sprouts back.

 

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RESLLS

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• Oct 6, 2016

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Father inlaw could look at it and break out. Luckily it has no effect on me. The books all say every time you get into it you become more sensitive to it. Time will tell. I still try to avoid it if I can.

 

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sms

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• Oct 6, 2016

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Yes, I have seen it all the way up mature trees with very large vines also, luckily it is not prevalent here in the mountains but drive 30 minutes into the flat lands where it stays warmer and there is plenty of it.

 

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IaGary

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• Oct 6, 2016

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Kinda hard to tell for sure but I would call that poison oak by the shape of the leaves.

We have both poison ivy and oak here. I can roll in poison oak and never break out.

I see poison ivy and can break out unless I take a shower soon.
Here are pictures of the two.

 

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Married2Allis

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• Oct 6, 2016

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Poison ivy or poison oak is wicked,wicked stuff. My 13 year-old daughter got it this summer bad from head-to-toe. Wherever she scratched it spread. Eventually had to take steroids -- probably 6 weeks to get rid of it.

 

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W_B

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• Oct 6, 2016

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(quoted from post at 02:16:11 10/06/16) The stuff on the ground can be grazed also. I have to keep it under control as I have a bad reaction to it.

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My llamas love to eat it, they cleaned it out totally from an acre and a half of woods at our other place. Ate all the green and small stems up to 6' high, then pulled the vines off the trees and chewed on them.

 

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Greg1959

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• Oct 6, 2016

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I don't like it. Heck, I can look at it and start scratching....LOL!