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Eliza Waters 
something so beautiful be so “harmful” =^_^=
I know, right? Seemingly so innocent, but watch out! Thanks for your visit.
Beautiful,soft new life !
Great shots,love it !
Thank you very much!
Lovely
In an evil queen sort of way. ;-D Thanks, Tosha.
Ha! You’re welcome xx
Oh, so lovely! I love leaves! 💖🌿💖🍁💖🍂💖🍃
Thank you, Trini. It is lovely, but terribly toxic to the skin.
Yikes! 😳
Yikes is right! It blisters the skin, itches like mad and leaves scars. Bad plant to mess with! Some people have to be hospitalized and if it is burned and inhaled, it could kill you. It’s no friend of mine!
Oh, my goodness!! Talk about toxic beauty! 😳
Alas, I have a patch in my yard, at the end of our driveway. Pretty, but…
I learned the hard way in my teens and twenties to ID it and have the scars to prove it. 😉
Wretched stuff!
Yep!
Too beautiful to wreak such havoc.
I know, right? 🙂 Horrid stuff!
I hope nobody was harmed in the taking of these shots! They are classic, gorgeous images.
😉 I was standing safely in the road, thank you! The backlighting of the first image was quite striking.
Poison Ivy is so pretty, and has lots of healing properties, especially within homeopathy.
Really? I didn’t know that. I can spot it a mile away and avoid it like the plague.
Interesting … I’ve only heard about it, not seen it before. Nice colours in spite of anything else.
Its spring beauty and striking red fall color is all the ‘nice’ I can say about it.
So beautiful- I love that it is poison ivy
Beauty and the beast – all in one!
I have to say it is pretty but I’m glad I don’t have any.
It is my nemesis – and I don’t have as much as other folks do. It creeps in from the perimeter and I’ve been eradicating it since I moved here 26 years ago.
The berries are an important wild bird food in winter, but unfortunately, the seed goes through intact, complete with fertilizer!
thanks for the extreme closeup–I never feel positive in identifying it
“Leaves of three, let it be.” I can identify it even when it is dormant and always give it wide berth.
So that’s what it looks like…
A good one to know. You are lucky it is not in the UK – it is a toxic one!
good to know what it looks like, for some species are finding their way here!
Oh, dear. Like opening Pandora’s Box.
Reblogged this on Anita Dawes & Jaye Marie.
Thank you for the reblog!
Just looking at it makes me itch!
IKR? ;-D
Lovely photos.
Thank you.
Love it Eliza!!
😉 Thanks, Val!
Totally awesome 🙂
Thank you, Ann. 🙂
Top pic – the bottom leaf is saying to the one above it, “Is it Fall yet is it Fall yet is it Fall yet?” 🙂
So, that’s what poison Ivy looks like!
🙂 Yep! Not a plant I like to see.
Beauty and the Beast!
Exactly! 🙂
LOVE the colors, texture and shadows!
Thank you, Catherine!
An amazing contrast – beautiful and painful (well, for some people at least).
Most people, I’d say. I have a neighbor who says he doesn’t have a reaction, and a friend who has been hospitalized from it. Must be genetic. Thanks for your visit, Sarah.
It must be – I have never had a reaction from it, knock on wood.
Lucky you! I wish I could say the same. 🙂
I’m certainly not going to complain on this one!
Oooohh, poison ivy in the spring just looks like it’s oozing and succulent with those irritating chemicals, doesn’t it? I’m fortunate that it doesn’t bother me (so far, knock on wood), but still find myself hopping around it along the roadside and in the woods when I’m taking photos of other plants. Eeek! Kind of like seeing a mouse at your feet.
Or a snake! 😉
I couldn’t bring myself to hit ‘like’ because I am so allergic to poison ivy. And, you would think I could easily identify it but I look at a plant with three leaves and I just leave it alone just in case. Gorgeous photos though. 🙂
Thanks, Judy. That’s a good rule to follow. Better to be safe than sorry. The trick is seeing the leaves when they first emerge, tiny, red and potent!!
Washing with soap and water within 15 min. of exposure will ward off a bad case. Did you know that crushing jewelweed and applying the sap several times/day to blisters when you first see them will clear them up? It must be early on, within a day or so. Once the blisters get watery and the immune system starts raging, it is less effective.
Thanks for this post, Eliza. I’ve been meaning to download some good photos of poison ivy & poison oak, for my walks. I’m going to do that RIGHT NOW.
ps… can I grab a copy of your pictures? We don’t have poison ivy in California, but it would be good to have a photo just in case. I understand that poison oak is just as bad as poison ivy.
Certainly you may. I remember seeing lots of poison oak further north (central coast) when we visited there in the 80s. I didn’t want a case of it to ruin my vacation!
Thanks Eliza. If Isee something that I SUSPECT is poison oak, but I’m not sure, I will always turn back. Now at least I’ll have photos on my phone to check.
It’s a great idea to have a picture ID with you for reference. I go by the general rule: ‘Leaves of three, let it be.” Hasn’t steered me wrong yet.
Love the color and perspective/angle of the first shot ~ poison ivy can be such a tease 🙂
Thank you, Randall. It really is!
You got some beautiful color on these!
Thank you, Maria!