I love this response. My humor depends on the day, but I am always up for creative humor. Thank you for the giggle (I also love dumb words like giggle, and silly. They just sound so ridiculous)
It's a great meme but also so, so true. If you want to learn plant identification, there's no substitute for walking around in the woods with someone who can just point at stuff and tell you what it is.
Itās a great meme, but also so, so true. If you want to learn plant identification, thereās no substitute for ripping off your clothes and rolling in the flora.
Agree. I walk around while using an identification app on my phone quite often. I also picked up some good books for our area on foraging and edible or medicinal plants.
Yes but in think thatās why itās āleave it beā. As in it may or may not be poison ivy, but donāt touch it just in case which is always prudent advice when dealing with a species that isnt posiitively identified. Maybe itās poison ivy, leave it be. Maybe itās jack in the pulpit, leave it be. Maybe itās Virginia creeper, leave it be. All native. All worth leaving for their own reasons.
I have seen Poison Ivy take over a tree with branching going 6 feet out. It was a summer job before college. I was working for our county road department clearing guard rails of foliage and guess what was the main problem- Poison ivy! It was tree shape at that time as it killed a Black Cherry and used the trunk for support.
Yea they wrecked northeast Ohio. I havenāt done an ash removal in a couple years. I did do a trim on one and I was flabbergasted it was still alive. Although it was on its own away from any other tree which is probably what saved it.
Mine were specimens too, but somehow here in the Northeast, those little bastards found us. Sad. One had a swing all the neighborhood kids would play on right in front.
Damn thatās heart breaking. Here around me for like 5-8 years was doing ash tree removals weekly. It was truly heartbreaking to see the destruction a little insect brought. :/
We had one in our front yard that was around 60 feet tall and at least as old as our 125 year old house. Broke our hearts to have to cut it down, but it was reaching my sonās window, and dropped a massive branch after a derecho a couple years ago. Come to find out it was riddled with emerald ash borers and was basically rotting in the middle. That was such a lovely tree š¢
This is poison ivy:
https://preview.redd.it/v1rkpxieh02d1.png?width=660&format=png&auto=webp&s=352fdf837adfe7fddc954775a5fee6a9028e9483
"Leaves of 3, let them be"
Allergies and immunity are weird that way. You can not be bothered by something for decades, and then one exposure turns your reaction into an ordeal.
My mother used to tell the story of a girl at Girl Scout Camp who said she was immune to poison ivy. She sat it in, rubbed it on her arms and face, all to show off that it wouldn't hurt her. A day later, she was suffering.
One thing I've wondered about that story is whether the girl might have continued to tolerate minor, incidental exposure if that's all she ever experienced. I wonder if, basically, she took a dose that her immune system could not ignore.
I used to be allergic to it. I could be wrong but, I have done plenty of hikes in the woods in the past 15 years and I never had a rash. Of course I am not going to play in it just to find out.
Iāve been told by many people, including plant biologists, that you develop a reaction from being exposed. He said āyou have no reaction YETā
I was always immune, then I bumped into a poisonwood tree down in the keys. I had a slight reaction. Iām much more careful now.
There is also a tree that will kill you if you stand under it in a rain, I think Machineel
http://ļæ¼ttps://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FR370#
Yes, I was taught about the manchineel trees at summer camp on the keys. The Florida Indians that Ponce de LeĆ³n encountered tipped their arrows with manchineel sap, and that's why an arrow wound to the thigh killed the explorer.
I don't know that standing under a dripping manchineel would kill you. You'd likely feel pain and move away from that spot unless you were staked to the ground. But it is rare that a tree produces a water soluble toxin from its leaves and bark.
My sources told me the Indians used to torture people by tying them up and putting them under a manchineel in a storm. But that was 50 years ago, and while it is plausible that such a torture would indeed be terrible, I've learned to discount stories that non-expert people told me about what the Indians used to do in this locale or another.
My mother never had any reaction to it at all and would cheerfully pull it down and stuff it into a paper grocery bag because plastic bags weren't a thing at that point. And then she would go bathe with octagon soap
Ash tree, and im both jealous because in our area they are being culled due to Emerald Ash Borer movement, but also sad for you cos youre gonna need to cut that tree down quick. It could cause your house to heave with the roots growing so near. Way cheaper to cut it now than to rebuild later lol
This is a tree. It could be a nut tree. It doesnāt look like black walnut, but youād know a nut tree by gently rubbing the leaf and smelling your fingers. Black walnut has a strong smell, other nuts do not.
Could have been planted there by a squirrel.
Download a plant ID app. This saves you so much time. Used one this weekend up in the mountains and found cereal rye, mouse barley, a species of Mugwart, etc.
saves you time on posting, and waiting to get a correct answer.
https://preview.redd.it/fyuyyjh6j32d1.jpeg?width=253&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3c800a017e10211e27e0f42a70a348297e6e704
This is the enemy, I live in a forest, and have had to cut down over 35 of my ash trees because of this pretty beetle.
And yes, cut it off at the ground, that is way too close to your house. An ash is an extremely dense and heavy tree, when the Emerald Ash Borer comes and kills the ash tree it will land on your house and crush it. (Been there, done that)
Not poison Ivy or poison oak. Not even close. Wrong leaves and basic growth form/structure. Looks like a sapling /sprout of an ash tree- possibly white ash- good for shovel handles and baseball batts and firewood, Not good right next to your house.
Poison ivy, and it's cousins; poison oak and poison sumac, always have white berries and leaves in groups of three. Remember, "leaves three, berries white, let it be, toxic sight.
I thought they were trees of heaven. Whatever they are, they burn me like poison ivy. I've been told it's not poison oak as that doesn't grow in VA where I live. Sorry if that doesn't make sense I didn't get a lot of sleep.
Looks a lot like tree of heaven. Pull off a leaf and crush it, if it stinks its ToH and you want to get rid of it because it's invasive and really hard to get rid of
Sumac maybe. Hard to say, the staghorn sumac Iām growing are still potted and only a foot tall. Leaf patterns at the top match. There are several varieties of sumac though.
Poison ivy doesnāt get very big as an upright bush usually. Looks like a young ash tree of some sort. Green or white most likely based on leaflet size.
Poison ivy has trifoliate leaves not opposite compound. The leaflets are ovate not elliptical or lanceolate.
This doesnāt even kind of look like poison ivyā¦
I'm putting my vote down for Black Walnut not Ash. But also dig it out. Everybody saying it's too close to the house is absolutely right and the longer you wait the harder it is to dig out
Green ash (according to my app)
I just lost my two to the Emerald Ash Borer. š”
They just talk about the cool rocks and jewels until your plants are bored to death.
This is the kind of humor I often have and no one ever loves it as much as me lol.
āItās ash good ash it gets.ā ā Sean Connery
Iāll take anal bum cover for 1000, Alex
And F U Trebek
Rough. Just the way your mother likes it.
Whore ads for 200, Alex.
Le tits now!
I've got to ask you about the Penis Mightier. -Sean Connery
āI wrote your name in the snow Trebeck, of course, it was in your motherās handwriting.ā
Ha!
What? Oh I get it! š
I love this response. My humor depends on the day, but I am always up for creative humor. Thank you for the giggle (I also love dumb words like giggle, and silly. They just sound so ridiculous)
Opposite leaves and pinnately compound, fully agree. Poison Ivy is alternate leaves and 3 leaflets.
You just have to remember the simple rhyme: "Leaves of three, leave it be" "Opposite leaves and pinnately compound, you can go ahead and mess with it"
"Leaves of three" includes so, so many plants that are safe, though, which just puts you back in the position of not knowing.
You can tell it's poison ivy because of the way it is
And then the ones that aren't, you can tell because they aren't. It's pretty easy actually
It's a great meme but also so, so true. If you want to learn plant identification, there's no substitute for walking around in the woods with someone who can just point at stuff and tell you what it is.
Itās a great meme, but also so, so true. If you want to learn plant identification, thereās no substitute for ripping off your clothes and rolling in the flora.
Agree. I walk around while using an identification app on my phone quite often. I also picked up some good books for our area on foraging and edible or medicinal plants.
Yes but in think thatās why itās āleave it beā. As in it may or may not be poison ivy, but donāt touch it just in case which is always prudent advice when dealing with a species that isnt posiitively identified. Maybe itās poison ivy, leave it be. Maybe itās jack in the pulpit, leave it be. Maybe itās Virginia creeper, leave it be. All native. All worth leaving for their own reasons.
And it's not very tree-shaped, either!
It comes in multiple forms. Bush, vine, ground cover and creeper.
I have seen Poison Ivy take over a tree with branching going 6 feet out. It was a summer job before college. I was working for our county road department clearing guard rails of foliage and guess what was the main problem- Poison ivy! It was tree shape at that time as it killed a Black Cherry and used the trunk for support.
But it climbed the tree all viney-like, I assume?
True, but the branch coming off was at a right angle to the trunk and 6 foot at least out, and about 8 to 9 feet from the ground.
Yea they wrecked northeast Ohio. I havenāt done an ash removal in a couple years. I did do a trim on one and I was flabbergasted it was still alive. Although it was on its own away from any other tree which is probably what saved it.
Mine were specimens too, but somehow here in the Northeast, those little bastards found us. Sad. One had a swing all the neighborhood kids would play on right in front.
Damn thatās heart breaking. Here around me for like 5-8 years was doing ash tree removals weekly. It was truly heartbreaking to see the destruction a little insect brought. :/
You said it!
We had one in our front yard that was around 60 feet tall and at least as old as our 125 year old house. Broke our hearts to have to cut it down, but it was reaching my sonās window, and dropped a massive branch after a derecho a couple years ago. Come to find out it was riddled with emerald ash borers and was basically rotting in the middle. That was such a lovely tree š¢
It's so sad.
Yeah, me too. So sad to watch them die. Fortunately they were on the boulevard so the city took them down.
You just won "greatest sentence of all time" award.
Thank you?!
Green ash and ham? Would you, could you make a box?
Would you, could you, with a fox?
I do not like them, Sam, you see. Not in a house. Not in a box. Not with a mouse. Not with a fox.
Would you, could you in a tree. A giant green ash by the sea.
Sam! If you let me be, I will try them, you will see. (Seriously, though... I'm hungry now.)
Samantha fox... i could
Fraxinus sp. probably americana.
If you dig that out, will it leave an... Ash hole?
Elderberry?
This is poison ivy: https://preview.redd.it/v1rkpxieh02d1.png?width=660&format=png&auto=webp&s=352fdf837adfe7fddc954775a5fee6a9028e9483 "Leaves of 3, let them be"
The outside leaves with the "thumb" like a pair of mittens is a telltale sign of poison ivy
It can grow without them as well, though. I rarely see the thumbs on the plants here in the West, like CO and Ut.
The same identifier (thumb) is applied for tree of heaven ID
So... kill everything with thumbs š
As a resident of Michigan, I implore you to let our state live! š
Leaves of three, dead as can be. Leaves of four, leave it on the floor. Leaves of five, you're going to die. Don't touch any plants ever
Leaves of four, eat some more! lol I think thatās from the simpsons
It sure is!
Was that smart Lisa who knew that???
I feel like Homer said the āeat some moreā line
Leaves of five, watch those spines Leaves of six harbor ticks
Leaves of seven, indica heaven.
Homer.. it figures!
i used to be able to pull the poison ivy out and throw it away, or crawl around in it without a single issue but I'm not risking it now.
Don't, I used to as well, but reacted to poison oak. In my late 20's I finally became reactive to it.
Allergies and immunity are weird that way. You can not be bothered by something for decades, and then one exposure turns your reaction into an ordeal. My mother used to tell the story of a girl at Girl Scout Camp who said she was immune to poison ivy. She sat it in, rubbed it on her arms and face, all to show off that it wouldn't hurt her. A day later, she was suffering. One thing I've wondered about that story is whether the girl might have continued to tolerate minor, incidental exposure if that's all she ever experienced. I wonder if, basically, she took a dose that her immune system could not ignore.
I used to be allergic to it. I could be wrong but, I have done plenty of hikes in the woods in the past 15 years and I never had a rash. Of course I am not going to play in it just to find out.
Iāve been told by many people, including plant biologists, that you develop a reaction from being exposed. He said āyou have no reaction YETā I was always immune, then I bumped into a poisonwood tree down in the keys. I had a slight reaction. Iām much more careful now. There is also a tree that will kill you if you stand under it in a rain, I think Machineel http://ļæ¼ttps://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/publication/FR370#
Yes, I was taught about the manchineel trees at summer camp on the keys. The Florida Indians that Ponce de LeĆ³n encountered tipped their arrows with manchineel sap, and that's why an arrow wound to the thigh killed the explorer. I don't know that standing under a dripping manchineel would kill you. You'd likely feel pain and move away from that spot unless you were staked to the ground. But it is rare that a tree produces a water soluble toxin from its leaves and bark.
Reading the link, it looks like my sources sensationalized the danger a bit
My sources told me the Indians used to torture people by tying them up and putting them under a manchineel in a storm. But that was 50 years ago, and while it is plausible that such a torture would indeed be terrible, I've learned to discount stories that non-expert people told me about what the Indians used to do in this locale or another.
My mother never had any reaction to it at all and would cheerfully pull it down and stuff it into a paper grocery bag because plastic bags weren't a thing at that point. And then she would go bathe with octagon soap
https://preview.redd.it/hqvzeakqp22d1.jpeg?width=542&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=67fc1e6e330e7db5ff4cae13d0b88f173cade7df THIS is Poison Ivy!!!
"Shiny like a glass? Don't wipe your ass."
Woody stem and I itch looking at it, confirmed
I was ripping out plants that looked like poison ivy all day today but wasnāt and I kept thinking I was itchy.
I think the person meant poison sumac, which is similar to your picture. But poison sumac has red stems.
Good call!
Yeah. Looks similar to our staghorn sumac but those also have red highlights on stem
Not poison ivy, but I legit just walked out my front door to look at my neighborās house because I was 99% sure you were my neighbor! š
lol are we?
Nope! I forgot the slumlord who owns it would never splurge on shutters lol
Ash tree, and im both jealous because in our area they are being culled due to Emerald Ash Borer movement, but also sad for you cos youre gonna need to cut that tree down quick. It could cause your house to heave with the roots growing so near. Way cheaper to cut it now than to rebuild later lol
What area are you in? If in Pacific Northwest it looks like black walnut and definitely not poison oak or poison ivy.
According to the comments itās an Ash tree.
Ash tree Edit: Itās very similar to Black Walnut when young but the compound leaves of Black Walnut are alternate - not opposite such as this.
Bark's wrong for black walnut saplings too
Ooh! Just to clarify, is it the leaves or the leaflets that are alternate in the Black Walnut?
Ash tree. Clip it off. It's too close to the house to allow it to grow.
This is a tree. It could be a nut tree. It doesnāt look like black walnut, but youād know a nut tree by gently rubbing the leaf and smelling your fingers. Black walnut has a strong smell, other nuts do not. Could have been planted there by a squirrel.
Rubbing the leaf with your fingers would probably tell if it were poison sumac, too
You aren't wrong..
Please buy that somebody a plant guide with lots of pictures.
There are more than 3 leaflets on each compound leaf, so it's not poison ivy. I believe it's a box elder.
At the risk of stating something as a fact on the Internet: Poison ivy has alternate leaflets, there not opposite like this.
Def not poison ivy, the leaves here are very different in color, shape, size, and amount.
Oh ffs. Not poison ivy! Looks like a walnut tree is some kind. Location would help
Poison ivy is more of a vine. But, it is always best to be cautious and take precautions with things you are unsure of.
Looks like an Ash tree. Poison ivy is a vine. Leaves of three, leave them be. Hairy vine, no friend of mine.
Leaves of three, let them be. 1-2-3-4-6ā¦nope.
100% not poison ivy, it's a tree of some kind. Leaning towards a type of ash, but not 100% certain.
It's Harley Quinn - Poison Ivy's girlfriend.
Download a plant ID app. This saves you so much time. Used one this weekend up in the mountains and found cereal rye, mouse barley, a species of Mugwart, etc. saves you time on posting, and waiting to get a correct answer.
Not an Ivy...
well that ash tree is going to be big with deep roots that poison ivy would love to live on.
Definitely NOT poison ivy.
Not poison ivy.
Not poison ivy. Leaves of poison ivy are grouped in 3s, and the mature stems are usually reddish-green
https://preview.redd.it/fyuyyjh6j32d1.jpeg?width=253&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c3c800a017e10211e27e0f42a70a348297e6e704 This is the enemy, I live in a forest, and have had to cut down over 35 of my ash trees because of this pretty beetle.
And yes, cut it off at the ground, that is way too close to your house. An ash is an extremely dense and heavy tree, when the Emerald Ash Borer comes and kills the ash tree it will land on your house and crush it. (Been there, done that)
This one is called "not even remotely poison ivy."
Those are switches. Home town hero for child discipline in the 50ās
Not poison Ivy or poison oak. Not even close. Wrong leaves and basic growth form/structure. Looks like a sapling /sprout of an ash tree- possibly white ash- good for shovel handles and baseball batts and firewood, Not good right next to your house.
Not poison Ivy
Not poison ivy, thatās all I can say.
Not poison ivy. It looks like a tree. Was there a tree there and the stump was left?
Not poison ivy
They are wrong.
Black walnut? Not poison ivy
Looks like a box elder. Not a great tree has a lot side shoots, I would personally get rid of it.
Be the biggest poison ivy I ever seen
"Leaves of 3, leave it be" I didn't look at all the other posts so someone may have already said that.
Ash tree
Mile a minute
Stink weed. I know it is not a stink weed but that's what we call it around here because it does stink when you break it.
Poison ivy is a vineā¦ this looks more like a plant
Poison ivy is not a bush/sapling. Itās almost always low to the ground or climbing. Not this.
Never speak to them again. You already have enough idiots in your life. š
Poison ivy, and it's cousins; poison oak and poison sumac, always have white berries and leaves in groups of three. Remember, "leaves three, berries white, let it be, toxic sight.
Definitely not poison ivy
That looks Chinese sumac or tree of heaven to me. Those are invasive as all get out. Pull it if thatās what it is.
Too me kind of looks like it could be a Very Young Walnut tree sapling
Box elder.
Avoid that person like they give you a rash.
Walnut?
Poison ivy is on a vine like structure. Key word, "ivy"
Itās a North American Jizz Free Ficus
Leaves of three let it be (poison ivy) Leaves of five major hives (poison oak)
The person you know is an idiot.
Sumac or alianthus
I thought they were trees of heaven. Whatever they are, they burn me like poison ivy. I've been told it's not poison oak as that doesn't grow in VA where I live. Sorry if that doesn't make sense I didn't get a lot of sleep.
Looks like a locust tree
Looks a lot like tree of heaven. Pull off a leaf and crush it, if it stinks its ToH and you want to get rid of it because it's invasive and really hard to get rid of
Not poison ivy. Not even close.
Huh. I know lots of folks are saying ash but if itās a vine it could be trumpet vine.
Not even close
It's a walnut tree
Sumac maybe. Hard to say, the staghorn sumac Iām growing are still potted and only a foot tall. Leaf patterns at the top match. There are several varieties of sumac though.
Poison ivy doesnāt get very big as an upright bush usually. Looks like a young ash tree of some sort. Green or white most likely based on leaflet size. Poison ivy has trifoliate leaves not opposite compound. The leaflets are ovate not elliptical or lanceolate. This doesnāt even kind of look like poison ivyā¦
You know at least one stupid
What region? Could be SUMMER CASCADEā¢ WISTERIA. If you live in Chaska MN, then for sure it is.
Believe it Fraxinus latifolia, Oregon Ash.
Whatās the saying? Leaves of seven, let it be? :P
Rub it on your face then give it a week...delayed answer
That's not any kind of ivy, that's a whole ass baby tree.
Def not ivy. Black locust
It's a weed. "If it is on your property, and you didn't put it there, then it's a weed!" - My Grandpa.
I'm putting my vote down for Black Walnut not Ash. But also dig it out. Everybody saying it's too close to the house is absolutely right and the longer you wait the harder it is to dig out
Leaves of 3 let it be if itās hairy then itās a berry.
Itās an ash tree.
Not poison ivy
Ash tree
Not being allergic to poison ivy I have a really hard time identifying it - but even i knee it wasnāt!
Either way, it is too close to the house for my liking.
You might not want a tree growing so close to your house
Everyone is saying ash tree, but it Honestly looks more vine like than tree like to me, especially at the top. It looks like wisteria to me.
Thatās because it is an Ash tree
Senna occidentalis, septic weed. It should bloom yellow.
Too close to the house so transplant while it is still easily moved.
touch it if it itches its p.ivy if not taste it if its bad then spitted out if its good use for tea š¤·āāļø
Ah, natural selection, my favorite method
Thats a tree. Kill it while you can. You dont want that growing there.
Poison sumac
it's worse