Is this poison ivy ?

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Dmitry

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Want to fell this tree , but it has this in it . Pretty sure this is poison ivy . What my strategy in this case ? . I'm allergic to this sh...t. And everything else around .
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The stuff with the fingers off it into tree almost certainly is. The brown stuff in pic 4 is most definitely not.
 
The stuff with the fingers off it into tree almost certainly is. The brown stuff in pic 4 is most definitely not.
Ok , what do I do now ?
 
Move on. Even if you kill a poison ivy vine you can get the oil of the vine for up to 5 years later after it is dead.
 
First two pics are 100% poison ivy. I got paid from my state DNR to eradicate it in my 40 acre woods. Cut it at the ground, cut it at eye level, spray the cut on the ground with a mix of 3 parts diesel fuel to 1 part Garlon 4 Ultra. I GARUNTEE it will not grow back. Garlon works trust me on this
 
It looks like Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) to me. Virginia creeper sap not poisonous.
* 5-leaved (hence its namesake) brilliant consistently, red fall color - PI is 3-leaved (also nice fall color, but more yellow & orange)
* Fruit - dark, purple berries - PI has white berries
* growth habit - ground cover, but also a climbing vine that at times can grow throughout crown of a tree.
* both can grow in association with one another

"Hairs" on poison ivy vine are finer, more dense, and matted.
Buds much different.
PI will tend to have woody branches 90* off of main trunk vine and that extends a few feet from trunk vine.
 
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It looks like Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) to me. Virginia creeper sap not poisonous.
* 5-leaved (hence its namesake) brilliant consistently, red fall color - PI is 3-leaved (also nice fall color, but more yellow & orange)
* Fruit - dark, purple berries - PI has white berries
* growth habit - ground cover, but also a climbing vine that at times can grow throughout crown of a tree.
* both can grow in association with one another

"Hairs" on poison ivy vine are finer, more dense, and matted.
Buds much different.
PI will tend to have woody branches 90* off of main trunk vine and that extends a few feet from trunk vine.
Hmmm... This is interesting , I have a lot , I mean a lot of Virginia creeper around. My wife handled stuff like this by mistake this weekend and had no reaction. And she is allergic to PI.
 
+1 to what CincyBurner says. Looks more like Virginia Creeper.
That being said, if you are worried about it, stay clear of it.
 
That's what I found on Internet . And repeating myself , it was a lot of Virginia creeper in that area before
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It may be poison sumac as well. Does not matter much, the outcome is the same as poison Ivy. Note poison sumac lives in lowland areas.
 
Looks like poison ivy to me. Steer clear.
 
Looks like Creeper to me too.
Poison Ivy here usually has reddish roots, finer and many more of them.

I'd still be pulling it off with pliers
 
When in doubt, treat it like a poison plant. My vote is that is certainly a poison plant vine.

Leave it alone or you'll get sprayed with poison oil at the 3800 rpm of your saw.
 
Where I live if I didn't cut and burn wood w PI vines I would freeze. It can be done successfully if you use caution and diligence. The oils are the devil so I only cut in the winter with gloves and wash everything after I am done cutting. All my clothes and myself.

If you have access to the land you cut year round I take an axe and cut vines in the winter near the base of the trees. This will kill that vine but small ones grow around it. I snip those too. The big ones dry up in a year or two. Not to be forgotten but certainly less potent than live vines. Often the dead vines can be pulled off completely after felling using the kill and wait a year technique but if not I cut right through them then split and stack. I burn plenty of splits with fuzzy vines in my stove and rarely get PI. Just use caution and common sense.
 
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I am pretty sure that is Virginia Creeper. If you can show pics of the branches coming off this vine that will verify the ID. Poison Ivy produces prominent long branches that can stick out five feet or more from the tree trunk on which the vine is climbing. Virginia Creeper produces short branches only a couple of inches long. In the fourth picture, the smaller vine to the left of the main vines is definitely Virginia Creeper, and I think the two main vines with the aerial rootlets are too.
 
I had a tree that my tree guy said had PI all over it. He cut it down and bucked it, I let it sit for maybe 2 weeks so the leaves dried out. Used gloves and SS-ed it, never had any issues I burned it all this year. But I'm not allergic to it...
 
Never ever burn PI - the oil will vaporize and get into lungs of people down wind if not your own as well- that is the worst scenario possible with PI, Sumac, or Oak. and yes it can be fatal.
 
Never burn it green. If it has been in your stacks CSSing for 3plus years no worries
 
Guess the question would be what kind of reaction do you get to poison ivy?
 
It may be poison sumac as well. Does not matter much, the outcome is the same as poison Ivy. Note poison sumac lives in lowland areas.

Poison sumac is a bush or small tree, not a vine. It would never climb like this.

OP, you will never get a sure answer from pictures of the vine. Nature isn't perfect - there are lots of variation in individual plants of the same species, just like humans. What looks like a PI vine may not be. Or the other way. The only way to know for sure is to find a few sets of leaves.

In general, most people are way too fast to lable something PI. Lot's of time they are wrong, even tree guys.
 
Nasty stuff. Got a log load a year ago and some of the logs had it on it. Even dead, because I came in contact with it...I broke out on my left arm just a little. I hear even burning it is bad because if you accidentally breathe it in...It will mess you up....
 
That is not poison ivy.
 
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