Is this poison ivy???

[Snigg]

I got a bad case of poison ivy back in May, and I'm a bit paranoid nowadays. I scored a few rounds of cherry this week, and was careful with a couple of them due to this hairy looking vine. The leaves look like a regular ivy, but I would rather be safe than sorry. Thanks in advance.

 

[dasuberdog]

Looks like it to me, but hard to tell without the leaves, could be english ivy, but I'm leaning to the itchy stuff. Just slice it off with an axe if you are allergic put it in a plastic bag. try not to burn the vine the active ingredient (Urushiol) could get into your lungs. When I get an outbreak I use the hot water method, helps speed up recovery and subdues the itch, Holding the rash under as hot as you can stand without being burned water for about 1-2 minutes.

 

[chazcarr]

Leaves of three let it be. I am still on topical steroids for my bout of poison ivy. Those look exactly like the things that gave it to me.

 

[Jon1270]

Leaf shapes on poison ivy vary a bit, but you can get a general idea from a Google image search.

 

[ScotO]

Looking at those leaves, I'm going lean towards English ivy. But it'd pay you to be careful and play it safe, get an old pair of gloves, peel it of as best you can, dispose of it and the gloves.....

But I'm around 95% certain its NOT PI.

 

[billb3]

The english ivy I have growing on my garage does not have hairy roots like that and the leaves are shaped more like a small maple leaf.
Photo 7 looks like english ivy

The poison ivy that grows up trees here has hairy roots just like that.
Dried up is supposedly when the oils are released more readily and there are plenty in the roots.
Photo 6 looks like PI vines have been pulled off leaving hairy roots behind but you could have had both there at one time or the hairy root stuff is something else completely.

I've pulled them off with needle nose pliers and still been careful cutting not to get saw chips on bare skin.

 

[Applesister]

The leaves look like English Ivy. But when I opened the pic...I said Holy Sh*t!!
Aerial roots ARE a major identification of Poison Ivy. Virginia Creeper does the same thing.
Black cherry is a hedgerow tree and poison Ivy loves living on the edge of the woods.
You can do what the other guy said and scrap all the bark off to salvage the wood. But...wear gloves.
I dont know if English Ivy gets vines that turn woody, maybe...but that looks creepy to me. The tree isnt as old as the vine. It takes a LONG time for a vine to get that size.

 

[Applesister]

The smoke from the wood is way more dangerous than any rash.

 

[Augie]

When I get an outbreak I use the hot water method, helps speed up recovery and subdues the itch, Holding the rash under as hot as you can stand without being burned water for about 1-2 minutes.

Better than the hot water method is the Hair Dryer Method. Same principal, same results, and the hair dryer helps dry the blisters out.

Holding the rash under the hot setting on a hairdryer as you can stand without being burned, usually 45sec 1min 30sec is good.

 

[paul bunion]

The leaves are English ivy and English ivy vines can look like that so you are probably safe.

 

[Mitch Newton]

Looking at those leaves, I'm going lean towards English ivy. But it'd pay you to be careful and play it safe, get an old pair of gloves, peel it of as best you can, dispose of it and the gloves.....

But I'm around 95% certain its NOT PI.

I'm with Scotty

 

[JOHN BOY]

Cut the end of the vine and rub it on your best friend ,, next day you will no

 

[Paulywalnut]

I too think its English Ivy. I am not allergic to the poison ivy and have never had it but I have seen poison ivy and English ivy growing together in a hedgerow.
Just be careful if you get it that easily.

 

[Coog]

Leaves of three let it be. I am still on topical steroids for my bout of poison ivy. Those look exactly like the things that gave it to me.

We tell our kids the same catch phrase.

Ya, English ivy does look a lot like poison ivy but the leaves differentiate. I have a lot of the poison kind around my place. I always take extra precautions when weed eating around the trees. Just wash your hands before you take a whiz.

 

[Jacktheknife]

I too think its English Ivy. I am not allergic to the poison ivy and have never had it but I have seen poison ivy and English ivy growing together in a hedgerow.
Just be careful if you get it that easily.

I'm not allergic either, we should get t-shirts made.

The woods outback our cabin was overgrown with the stuff, I used to lead my cousins through it. Man, good times.

 

[Ram 1500 with an axe...]

Looks like ivy, poison ivy has leaves of three...no?

 

[Hearth Mistress]

The tree that fell on my house had English Ivy vines over a inch in diameter but it's harmless.

THIS vine, however, Virginia Creeper gets hairy vines, climbs on anything it can and makes me break out worse than any poison ivy I've ever accidentally came in contact with. Watch for it, 5 shiny leaves, my hubby calls it "pot ivy" for the obvious reasons but whatever helps you look for it

 

[Hearth Mistress]

Here's a picture of the English Ivy vines. Granted this tree was 85 ft tall and a Husky saw with a 32” bar had to make 2 cuts to get through it as the vines added a few inches stacked on top of each other. English Ivy CAN get big vines...

 

[clemsonfor]

English ivy.

 

[clemsonfor]

Positive that's English ivy. I am fixing to have a contract let for removal job. Not me doing it but I have my herbicide license and I oversee jobs on federal property.

Positive its ivy, even though some lady on a base promised me they were poison ivy, even though the trees are eat up with English ivy vines.

 

[NortheastAl]

Those leaves are def English Ivy. Had lots of PI growing on trees this year.

 

[Wood Duck]

The leaves in the initial post are English Ivy. English Ivy grows thick hairy vines just like Poison Ivy. Virginia Creeper also gets hairy vines, but not as thick as the vine in the first picture.

I have never heard of anyone getting a rash from Virginia Creeper (until I read this thread), but I have many, many times found a little bit of Poison Ivy growing in a patch of Virginia Creeper. Both vines grow in places where birds crap out the seeds after eating the fruit, and both like sunny edges of woods, fence lines, etc.

 

[clemsonfor]

I missed the part about va creeper giving a rash! What its not poisonous? Maybe its like how some folks are allergic to peanuts?? But I'm not allergic to poison ivy either. Can I get a shirt?

 

[Corey]

I concur - the leaves you show are english ivy - usually not a problem. Though you always have to be careful - poison ivy can/does co-mingle with other vines and sometimes the other vine can choke the leaves off the poison ivy. So you have the poison ivy vine with all it's rash causing potential, but no real leaves to warn you.

A couple months ago I was hacking through a hedge tree with what I thought was a thick creeping virginia vine. Virginia doesn't bother me, so I was hacking through it, chucking rounds in the truck, hacking some more, etc. As I get to the end of the log, I find those familiar 'mitten' shaped poison ivy leaves. CRAP!! A closer look shows those leaves attached to a poison ivy vine co-mingled with the creeper, though the creeper had choked off most of the poison ivy leaves, so it wasn't immediately clear there were two separate vines just by looking at the trunk of the tree. I got home and did a good cleansing in Tecnu, but still got a pretty good rash on my wrists right where my leather gloves ended.

 

[clemsonfor]

Mitten leaf is poison oak?, not a vine but a ground dweller. Also poisonois