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    • Pacific Poison Oak
    • Western Poison Oak
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    • Toxicodendron diversilobum
    • Rhus diversiloba

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Recent observations

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Date

May 6, 2013 11:22 AM PDT

Place

pepperwood preserve (Google, OSM)

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Date

May 6, 2013 11:19 AM PDT

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joaaelst

Date

Apr 21, 2013 11:39 AM PDT

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Observer

sekihiker

Date

May 20, 2013 10:10 AM PDT

Description

poison oak is abundant along the entire length of the Marble Falls trail and at this location some of the leaves were reddish along with the usual deep, glossy green

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sunya

Date

May 4, 2013 09:20 AM PDT

Description

Green phase of poison oak trailing up the road/creek near Bechtel House...boy was it plentiful!

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Date

May 20, 2013 12:00 PM PDT

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What

Pacific Poison Oak Toxicodendron diversilobum

Date

May 14, 2013 10:05 AM PDT

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What

Pacific Poison Oak Toxicodendron diversilobum

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finatic

Date

May 18, 2013 03:46 PM PDT

Description

San Diego County, California, US

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Pacific Poison Oak Toxicodendron diversilobum

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mpineda23

Date

May 16, 2013

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Date

May 19, 2013 04:51 PM PDT

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What

Pacific Poison Oak Toxicodendron diversilobum

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tiwane

Date

May 19, 2013 01:57 PM PDT

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coolbabyanimals

Date

May 14, 2013 09:46 AM PDT

Description

Eaton canyon park, first day of class

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Description from Wikipedia

Toxicodendron diversilobum (syn. Rhus diversiloba; Western Poison-oak or Pacific Poison-oak) is a plant best known for its ability to cause allergic rashes after contact. Western Poison-oak is found only on the Pacific Coast of the United States and of Canada. It is extremely common in that region, where it is the predominant species of the genus; the closely related Atlantic Poison-oak (T. pubescens) occurs on the Atlantic Coast. The hyphenated form "Poison-oak" is used, rather than...

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