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Submitted by:  Dave
Date Submitted: 5/23/2003
Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Question Asked: These were taken yesterday in Baltimore, Maryland. Please feel free to do with them as you wish.

Pictures are of vines and leaves growing up the back of my neighbors garage. And we are wondering if they are of the poisonous variety........

Answer: Dave - first off I wanted to thank you for the spectacular pictures. The clarity and detail is excellent.

It's pretty clear that your neighbor has a nasty poison ivy plant taking over the garage. That's an old and large vine and would take some work to remove. This plant appears to be quite healthy and shows how a vine can support very long branches with very large leaves. You might want to convince the neighbor to deal with this unless he's using it for protection?