Urban Nature Pictures 3/2

[urbpan]

Poison ivy.

Comments

[featheredfrog.livejournal.com]

teh enemy!

[agelena.livejournal.com]

You've just re-activated some old itches. This is my nemesis.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

so pretty, so fuzzy, what is it? let's pat it! poison ivy? oh noes, it can't be, where are the leaves? who knew it grew that way! sometimes it's a TREE. sometimes it's just a wee vine. bad bad bad plant. nasty, kill it :> let's BURNINATE it, no don't do THAT...

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[bdot.livejournal.com]

i have never seen poison ivy... we have the oak variety here, mostly. afaik what an interesting plant!

[belldandychan.livejournal.com]

Itchy

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a dead red fox at first!

btw- what's the diff between Poison Oak/Sumac/Ivy?!

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

they're different plants, but all produce the same oil which 50+% of the population of the US is allergic to.
http://www.aad.org/public/publications/pamphlets/skin_poison.html

i am not allergic to it, but urbpan is highly sensitive.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Poison ivy tends to grow as a climber, going up trees and posts, and is more common in eastern North America (though it grows pretty much throughout the continent). Poison oak tends to be shrubbier, and has leaves that are more or less oak leaf shaped, (there are two species—a west coast one and a southeastern states one). Poison sumac resembles true sumacs, but has white berries instead of the red fruit that they have. It is found in wet swampy areas in the eastern United States. To my knowledge I have never seen poison sumac (I probably have, but didn’t know that I was seeing it). Alexis is right, frequently I will veto a path on one of our hikes in the woods because of poison ivy, which she is usually into up to her waist

[ellettra.livejournal.com]

WHOA!!!!

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Heh. I didn't know that- thought it affected everyone. We don't have it here, but we do have its arboreal relative the Scarlet Rhus Tree (Toxicodendrom Succedaneum)- not pleasant (except to look at)

[obie119.livejournal.com]

There is apparently one plant of poison sumac at Arlington Great Meadows, and one at Garden in the Woods. I keep meaning to visit, just to meet a new evil nemesis!