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[Duds13]

Exactly correct. Fortunately, it doesn't bother me much. Maybe because of exposure as a child. There was a big spreader bush (that was full of poison ivy) next to the porch of my childhood home and my Brother and I used to jump off the porch into the bush kind of like Rambo in the pine tree. Never affected me.

Hopefully you are still immune!

 

[RayIN]

My dad had an old Mall 2-man chain-saw, 4-cycle engine. To saw horizontally, the bar pivoted. I was the helper when I was 10-14 years old, holding the dumb end.

 

[Runner]

Hopefully you are still immune!

Yes, still pretty much so. I wouldn't go rolling around in it or intentionally rubbing on, but just brushing against it doesn't bother me. There is some other kind of vine here in MO that I can't even get close to without getting blisters.

I don't know what it's called and I haven't been able to find a picture of it, but this vine has shiny dark green leaves and little white flowers. The stuff loves to grow up in bushes, so if you try to trim the bushes you also have to trim the vines. Horrible stuff, whatever it's called....

 

[Duds13]

Yes, still pretty much so. I wouldn't go rolling around in it or intentionally rubbing on, but just brushing against it doesn't bother me. There is some other kind of vine here in MO that I can't even get close to without getting blisters.

I don't know what it's called and I haven't been able to find a picture of it, but this vine has shiny dark green leaves and little white flowers. The stuff loves to grow up in bushes, so if you try to trim the bushes you also have to trim the vines. Horrible stuff, whatever it's called....

Quick search sounds like it might be poison hemlock

In Missouri, a potentially poisonous vine with white flowers is poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It's a highly toxic plant, and contact with it can cause illness in both humans and animals. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation and University of Missouri Extension, it's important to be able to identify it and avoid contact

 

[Runner]

Quick search sounds like it might be poison hemlock

In Missouri, a potentially poisonous vine with white flowers is poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It's a highly toxic plant, and contact with it can cause illness in both humans and animals. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation and University of Missouri Extension, it's important to be able to identify it and avoid contact

That's not it. This is a vine with shiny dark green leaves and small white flowers that look like baby's breath. I have Googled it to death and can't seem to find it.

 

[Runner]

Quick search sounds like it might be poison hemlock

In Missouri, a potentially poisonous vine with white flowers is poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It's a highly toxic plant, and contact with it can cause illness in both humans and animals. According to the Missouri Department of Conservation and University of Missouri Extension, it's important to be able to identify it and avoid contact

OK, I found it. This stuff is called Climbing Hempvine.

I don't really see any references to it being a skin irritant, so maybe I'm the only person in the world it affects. Not so much by touching the leaves but if I cut it and get the juice on me. Fortunately, there is none of this where I currently live.

US Wildflower - Climbing Hempweed, Climbing Boneset - Mikania scandens

Photographs and information about Climbing Hempweed, Climbing Boneset - Mikania scandens

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[WinterDeere]

Climbing Hempvine.

Hemp!

 

[Gordon Gould]

This is Poison Hemlock that we had near an old cellar hole. It has a sort of woody green stem with redish specs on it and fern like leaves. Bad stuff.

gg

 

[WinterDeere]

The leaves look like some varieties of mint. I wonder how many have tried a taste test while the stuff is a young little 6" tall sapling, before it grows tall enough to easily identify as something else?

 

[John_Mc]

This is Poison Hemlock that we had near an old cellar hole. It has a sort of woody green stem with redish specs on it and fern like leaves. Bad stuff.


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gg

Be careful with that stuff, Gordon. If that is Cicuta maculata (Water Hemlock or "Spotted Water Hemlock), it is extremely toxic. It is thought to be the most toxic plant in North America, and is found throughout the US and Canada.

Ingestion of even small amounts in humans can be fatal. From the Wikipedi entry: "Upon human consumption, nausea, vomiting, and tremors occur within 30–60 minutes, followed by severe cramps, projectile vomiting, and convulsions. Occasional long-term effects include retrograde amnesia. Ingestion of water hemlock in any quantity can result in death or permanent damage to the central nervous system." The toxic reaction has been reported merely from skin contact with the plant, including cases where children have been killed. The stuff is so fast acting that even if the cause is known, someone can be dead or permanently impaired before you can get them to a hospital. Ingestion of the plant by grazing livestock has caused death in as little as 15 minutes.