"zxcvbob" wrote in message
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John McGaw wrote:

I've got this vine which has starting getting out of hand in my yard.
Last
year I saw a few stray strands of it growing among the Vinca but this
spring
it seems to have taken off and looks like it might overtake and smother
the
English Ivy in the woods! A picture and description appears at
http://johnmcgaw.com/mystery%20vine.html

Appreciate any help you might offer.
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]


Are you sure it's not English Ivy? The leaves change shape when the plant
matures; I've seen it before but I don't remember what the adult form
looks
like. The normal "ivy shape" is the juvenile form.

Could it be poison ivy? (I've been away from the South too long; I can't
believe I can't remember this stuff.) No..., I think it's just adult
English ivy.

Bob

Definitely not English ivy. I've got that spread over at least 1/4 acre of
my property and in every stage of growth from the newest sprout to the most
senior citizen and none of them look anything like this. Besides the shape
being different the size of the leaves is different with these being 1/3 or
less the length of an ivy leaf. Doesn't appear to be any form of poison ivy
either -- the leaves of that plant are quite variable in shape but are
nothing like this. I had to re-learn poison ivy after many years living in
Alaska but I've got plenty of that growing in the back woods to remind me.
--
John McGaw
[Knoxville, TN, USA]

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