Information about poison ivy, oak, sumac and the skin rashes they cause
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Here we have a 4-inch poison ivy vine that has been sawed through. Note how lots of sap seeps out from the bark layer.
It is the plant sap that contains the urushiol oil that causes all the problems.
I have rarely seen poison ivy climbing a white birch, but as this photo shows it is happy to do so.
But it also does a nice job of revealing itself against the white bark.
Some things to notice:
I recently got an email from a fellow who had cut down a tree and cut it up for firewood. It had been covered in poison ivy vines and he got a terrible case of it. Cutting the vines with a chain saw will unleash and splatter the plant sap all over, which is a way to get a hall of fame rash.
We apologize for even showing you this rash, but this is why this website exists in the first place.
Poison ivy and poison oak and poison sumac can cause an allergic reaction that produces spectacularly awful results. Giant rashes, sometimes with bubbles filled with fluids.
