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  • From: ted <music AT thenightshades.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] Poison Ivy
  • Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:59:13 -0700

The reason I've never heard the whole saw, is I'm out on the west coast
where there is no Virginia Creeper! Yet that's what they told me all my
life- just the first line.
Ted

on 4/7/05 6:52 PM, homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org at
homestead-request AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

>
> The 'leaves of three' is not for positive identification. It is because
> over
> much of poison ivy's habitat there is a vine that looks similar, Virginia
> Creeper, that has five leaves. Knowing what poison ivy looks like in
> general,
> vine with clusters of pointy leaves, many people panic when the find
> themselves
> entangled with Virginia Creeper. Hence the rest of the saw:
>
> "Leaves of three, let it be,
> Leaves of five, let it thrive."
>
> However, better to avoid everything with three leaves than to get a nasty
> rash of poison ivy.





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