Poison Ivy Pictures
The Poison Ivy Plant consists of three pointed leaflets and the middle leaf is much longer than the other two leaves, although they still look the same. The leaf can either be smoothe or toothed in texture. The leaves grow in different sizes howeer the most common size is approximatel 8 to 55 mm (.31″ to 2.16″) in length.
The leaves are different colors depending on the season. They can be reddish color in the spring, then green during the summer and then turn various shades of yellow, orange or red in the autumn.
Many of you want to know “Is It Poison Ivy”, well I hope these pictures will help you determine if it is in deed or NOT poison ivy.
The oil from the poison Ivy plant is extremely potent and stable. It can essentially be stable forever in the perfect environment. Poison Ivy literally grows everywhere in the US and southern Canada except for the the west, deserts and at high altitudes. Poison Oak is more common in the west.
There are typically two kinds of Poison Ivy. There are the climbing variety (toxicodendron radicans) of poison ivy and the non climbing (toxicodendron rydbergii). Although they are different, they look the same, sometimes grow in the same places and the rash looks the same.
It is easy to confuse Poison Ivy with Poison Oak in the southerneast of the United States; the only difference is the Poison Oak doesn’t climb. Poison Ivy is considered one of the most painful plants in the US. It does not spare race, age, sex or economic status. Every year, thousands of people are infected by Poison Oak and Poison Ivy with moderate and even severe dermatitis from being in contact with the plant one way or another.
Note that hundreds of firefighters who fight and battle the smoke in california wild fires, are so terribly severely affected that many are unable to work. People who breathe the smoke may develop serious inflammation of the lungs.
Records have shown that North America has had the Poison Ivy plants dating back to the early 1600’s. Captain Smith included pictures of the Poison Ivy plant in his writings and the plant resembled the English Ivy (Hedera helix).
Some people are so terribly sensitive to the urushiol oil, it only takes a moledule trace which is about one millionth of an ouce on the skin to initiate an allergic reaction. The amount on a pinhead is sufficient to cause rashes in 500 people.
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