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Poison-ivy, poison-oak and poison sumac

Crooks, D. M. (Donald Mundell), 1902-1992; Kephart, L. W. (Leonard Wheeler), 1892-1988· 3 chapters· 9,837 words

POISON-IVY, poison-oak, and poison sumac remind most people of painful experiences to be avoided, yet many do not know any one of the offending plants or their equally poisonous relatives. Learning to recognize them on sight is relatively easy, especially by examining the dist...

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Poison sumac grows as a coarse woody shrub or small tree (fig. 19) and never in the vinelike form of its poison-ivy relatives. This plant is known also as swamp sumac, poison el...

1. Part 1

POISON-IVY, poison-oak, and poison sumac remind most people of painful experiences to be avoided, yet many do not know any one of the offending plants or their equally poisonous...

3. Part 3

=Ammonium sulfamate.=--This chemical, under a proprietory name, has come on the market recently as a weed killer and has proved especially useful against poison-ivy. Ammonium su...