Poison oak and ivy????

[HawgHunter]

Is this stuff poison oak and poison ivy?


OAK?
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/New%20House/HPIM0656.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/New%20House/HPIM0657.jpg


IVY?
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/New%20House/HPIM0658.jpg
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/New%20House/HPIM0660.jpg

[tylerdan]

Top two photos are Virginia Creeper--a non-poisonous vine. Hard for me to tell about the other two.

[HawgHunter]

Top two photos are Virginia Creeper--a non-poisonous vine. Hard for me to tell about the other two.

Well....it's living up to it's name cause it's creeped all over this tree out back....got me some clearing to do....just don't want to be ichy for he next month afterwards.:icon_eek:

[tylerdan]

Here is a nice link on poison vines. This link goes to the poison ivy page but should also get to the oak page.

http://www.poison-ivy.org/

[HawgHunter]

Here is a nice link on poison vines. This link goes to the poison ivy page but should also get to the oak page.

http://www.poison-ivy.org/


Great link!....Looks like I'm in the clear. Thanks TD!:)

[Bill Barrick]

My wife says third and fourth is Trumpet Vine..........

[croxt]

tylerdan and bill are both right.....so is CT.......it took me almost two years to find a live specimen of poison ivy to take a picture.........on a camping trip last year (first pic). I wanted to know exactly what it looked like so I can teach my boy not to play in it.

Be careful in correctly identifying virginia creeper, and not as as poison ivy, when the plant is small.........it starts out developing 3 leaves and then will sprout the other two later.......see second picture.

[Ole Bill]

leaves of three is a fact for both poison oak and ivy the way to distinguish it is the leaves look like they come from the same point in the stalk where as other plants produce leaves of three from three seperate points. do not go by the looks of the leaves tho. in some areas they are waxy dark green and shiney in other parts like oklahoma ivy is a low growin vine that hugs the ground with velvet dull green leaves poison oak in california will grow into very large bushes yet in new mexico they will be small spindly plants and will vine out to some degree. find and read what is normal for the area you live in and one other thing around here is watch out for poison sumac. make sure that what you are reading about is for the area you live in.

[HawgHunter]

Ok folks....got some more pics of some possible poison something. My buddies wife gets around this stuff and it tears her up....has it on her legs right now....Any idea's?....




Here's the vine on the front of their place....

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/Nature/HPIM0923.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/Nature/HPIM0924.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/Nature/HPIM0925.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/Nature/HPIM0926.jpg

[HawgHunter]

And here's the vines growing all over a tree by their driveway....

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/Nature/HPIM0927.jpg




And this is the stuff that has her legs tore up right now....

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/Nature/HPIM0928.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j132/hawghunter74/Nature/HPIM0929.jpg

[Ole Bill]

I know at first glance this would appear to be poison ivy but it isn't. The leaflet shape is the give away here. I don't see enough of the vine to see if there are other differences but the leaflet shape is enough for me. This plant I believe is trailing wild bean (straphostyles helvula) and is found in Texas. If you'd like to know more about legumes in Texas, you can go to this site: http://stephenville.tamu.edu/~jmuir/native.html This bean vine can cause a form of dermititus on some people I dont have a clue on the last two but a good bet is its poison ivy with that mitten type leaf. It almost looks like a sycamore leaf that comes from a tree. The leaves of poison ivy are variable throughout the US the one thing that gives it away is the woody stems and their looks to be some ariel roots coming from the stalks not sure though. I would treat it as poison ivy if it was me.

[mfclark12]

Man Iam starting to itch just from the pictures.