While those shiny green leaves lining the base of a tree might look harmless, poison ivy isn't anything to mess around with, especially when the results of touching it are an itchy red rash that lasts ...

Q: I had poison ivy growing up a tree, so I pulled it out this summer, and of course, I got a bad skin rash for a few weeks. It came back, but now I'm afraid to pull at it again.

Killing poison ivy can be tricky — especially if it’s entwined in a tree near your house. But you can kill the plant and remove the vines without using chemicals, and without getting a case of ...

Poison ivy can be a woody vine that climbs trees, houses and fences, ... If the plant is vining, wait until the vine has died to remove it from your house, fence or tree.

The rhyme "leaves of three, let it be" could describe a lot of plants, so you have to know what to look for to identify poison ivy, poison oak and poison sumac.

Poison ivy can take over a dead tree, like this one on the Virginia Tech golf course. From afar, it looks like it could be an evergreen. Up close, it becomes clear that this is a nightmare of nature.

No, you can't spray poison ivy killer around your tree, and yes, it would damage the tree. Poison ivy killer, regardless of what it says on the container, is a broad-leaf plant killer.

Recently, after writing about mangoes, I received the following email from Steve Huffman: “It might be worth mentioning that mango sap can cause skin irritation similar to poison ivy. When I was ...