In message , Garrapata
writes

I've seen pictures of it covering the side of a house in England.
I've seen tourists picking armloads of the pretty red branches.


I've never seen it.

If you see a house in Britain covered with something climbing that turns
red in autumn, it'll either be Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus
quinquefolia) or Boston Strangler (P tricuspidata) - both North
American, they climb by suckers and can grow prodigiously here.

A web search for UK references to poison oak found some medicinal and
foreign ones, and Pat's picture!

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