HERB - Poison Ivy & Its Ilk

[Roberta R Comstock]

On Mon, 24 May 1999 10:01:54 -0400 meaduewolf at juno.com writes:
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>On Sun, 23 May 1999 22:31:06 -0400 Warren & Meredith Harmon 
><corwynsca at juno.com> writes:
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>>Greetings!
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>>My mother, who is extremely allergic to poison ivy, is also allergic 
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>>to Virginia creeper.  Perhaps it's an allergy just to Virginia 
>>creeper?
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>Now I am wondering....
>There was this vine that at first I thought was Clematis, but it 
>wasn't. It has cone like flowers on it about 2 inches long. Shaped 
>like a pine cone in a way. I had decided that it may be wisteria (sp). 
> It had very few leaves. (but then this thing has been living in the 
>dark for years) They were a dark green kind of broad and ending in a 
>point. I think they were like a rounded saw tooth edges. This was 
>something I have never seen before, even with working in a flower 
>shop.
>Rhiannon
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The flower you are describing sounds like hops (_Humulus lupulus_).   The
leaves are shaped somewhat like a grape leaf with 3 to 5 lobes (not
separate leaflets).    The plant is rough-prickly.  Although it is
included in a book of medicinal plants, there is also a warning that
handling it often causes dermatitis.

Hertha

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