Poison Ivy

[rwsaunders]

As if the cars, road debris, sun and the bees aren't enough; poison ivy thrives on increased levels or carbon dioxide. Maybe drinking San Pellegrino has helped my immunity…knock on wood.

https://pittsburghquarterly.com/arti...arbon-dioxide/

[bigbill]

I had it all the time as a kid, and at 12, I had it so bad that the family doctor wanted me hospitalized overnight to evaluate the spread. I'm 59 and I've been rash-free for 47 years although I spend a lot of time in the woods and bushwhacking to get to fishing spots. My wife had it two years ago and still has scars on her legs that will take a while to fade. After her ordeal, I keep alcohol wipes in the truck when we fish and wipe down extremities before I get in the truck.

[Too Tall]

Gobs of Dawn Liquid dish soap does the trick for me.

Turn your head if you are adverse to herbicide. At the VA campsite we have close to 100 acres of wooded lands. Most of the trails have filtered sunlight where there are poision ivy vines some as thick as your arm. Hack and squirt Crossbow, mixed properly, sends them to their graves. Same for the trail edges where I mix it even weaker as the stuff is effective even at low doses. I use a Gator and a powered sprayer run off the gator's battery. blah blah blah.

After several years of this I find that the grasses and ferns are bouncing back and I prolly will cease spray in most places that were a problem.

Yah yah I'll do some good deeds to make up for it.

[j44ke]

I think we just need to figure out a way to sell it to teenagers as an inebriant.

[monadnocky]

Interesting that in the article picture, most of what's shown is common raspberry (thus the little thorns you can see). Might be some PI on the bottom right, but hard to tell.
Very common mistake.
Also looks like there may be some virginia creeper in there, also commonly confused with PI.

And yes, I am that guy.

[bcm119]

Interesting that in the article picture, most of what's shown is common raspberry (thus the little thorns you can see). Might be some PI on the bottom right, but hard to tell.
Very common mistake.
Also looks like there may be some virginia creeper in there, also commonly confused with PI.

And yes, I am that guy.

You beat me to it, I guess I'm not crazy. We have poison oak on the west coast, no poison ivy, so it's been a while.

[bcm119]

As if the cars, road debris, sun and the bees aren't enough; poison ivy thrives on increased levels or carbon dioxide. Maybe drinking San Pellegrino has helped my immunity…knock on wood.

https://pittsburghquarterly.com/arti...arbon-dioxide/

Am I crazy or is the plant in the cover photo not actually poison ivy? Poison ivy doesn't have such sharp serrations and spikes on the stem, that looks more like an invasive blackberry to me.

[monadnocky]

Am I crazy or is the plant in the cover photo not actually poison ivy? Poison ivy doesn't have such sharp serrations and spikes on the stem, that looks more like an invasive blackberry to me.

You're either crazy, or a giant nerd. Like me.

[monadnocky]

As far as the substance of the article - WOW have I seen explosions of PI and grape vines in the last few years. The latter do some gruesome work on young cherry and birch trees. Just forests of nothing but grape vines clamoring for anything they can grab onto. Spectacular increase of PI as well around here.
I guess an increase of [CO2] at least partially explains increased vine growth - of any species that vines out - ?

[thollandpe]

One, this is hands down the best way to clean up after getting it on you. I got turned onto it from the grounds department at a college where I worked. https://tecnu.com/product/tecnu-orig...skin-cleanser/

Two, my town made a mistake of commissioning a study before spraying roadside poison ivy. It said exactly what the article says, including that the berries are food for birds (also see link below) and they persist late in the season and even into winter. So no spraying. In my yard, it's kept at bay by the ferns which grow higher and take up all the light, and the multiflora rose that outcompetes its rhizomes. But I've pulled most of the latter so poison ivy is on a comeback.

Three, nice job spotting the bad photo! https://www.massaudubon.org/nature-w...nts/poison-ivy

Four: I was hoping to find my favorite 71-year-old in here.

I'd post a song from The Cramps, but most of the titles are too risqué.

[72gmc]

That's the most iconic photo of her, I do believe.

I liked this tribute to her 70th: https://rockandrollglobe.com/punk/st...-ivy-turns-70/

“I’m always trying to make this less sexist than it is, but every time I do Ivy starts smackin’ me around and it hurts.”