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poison ivy - again
I have already read the 400+ items in the thread that ran from 1996 to
2001. Is it possible to have a poison ivy tree? This is not a tree wrapped in poison ivy - it is a tree with a non-hairy trunk. It has the light-colored 3-leaves that (at this time) have red stems and the leaves look just like the vines that I also have. Oh yeah - the little green berries are there too. It is about 15-20' tall and has a nice rounded shape. Also, are baby poison ivy leaves red, shiny, and more pointy than the adults? I am finding these very lightly scattered in a field near the building that has most of the vines. There is alot of talk about cutting off the vine and applying Brush-Be-Gone to the stump. It seems to me that it would be better to spray the leaves because the leaves are pipelines to the root system so the more leaves you have; the more pipelines. I was very allergic as a child. I take Claritin for airborne allergies so I wonder if that might inhibit some of my reaction to the ivy now. I get little quarter-sized patches of little bumps that itch some but not alot, plus very stray individual bumps. These could be bug bites but the patches seem more likely to be poison ivy. The main question here is "can an antihistamine reduce or prevent the reaction?" Finally, everybody talks about Roundup and Brush-be-Gone. My Weed-Be-Gone -says- that it works for poison ivy. Does anyone know that it does not? Thanks! Remove SPAMDEFENSE in address to reply. |
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