what the hell is this vine growing in my yard?

[rockin_rick]

What is this vine? I never really noticed these before, but this year it started growing in my yard, and I've started seeing them around more. I wonder if it is 'poisionous' as the last time I was out cleaning up brush/overgrown crap, I ended up with what I think was poision ivy (dermatitis), and couldn't find any poision ivy around. I wonder if this vine is also to be avoided....

Any guesses?

Thanks,
Rick

 

[rockin_rick]

another pic

 

[slvrbullit302]

Looks to me like you may be having a kudzu problem developing, as far as I know it is not poisonous.
Click the link below to see the damage it can to to the landscape.

KUDZU

 

[S/CBlack95GT]

It's trumpet vine I believe. Some round-up will kill it. Your breakout could just be a reaction to something else in the weed patch, maybe even some poison oak or sumac.

 

[ECU5.0]

yeah, kudzu has more rounded leaves. a little fun fact about kudzu....a fully mature kudzu can grow up to 3 feet in one day provided it has enough light and what not

 

[rockin_rick]

Thanks for the ideas, guys. I don't think that it's either, though. I checked a bunch of pics on the internet, and they don't really look the same...

The leaves are very heart shaped, see pic 3.

Also, in pic 2, it appears to be growing a pepper shaped thing...

The vine is also green colored, and tends to twist around itself, so there are 2-4 braided together.

Rick

 

[super302]

 

[SeventyMach1]

CHECK THIS OUT. This is the only similar thing I could find. You been throwing cinnamon, sweet potatoes, or yams out into your yard? Look at the 2nd pic. Now that plant has balls.....

 

[SeventyMach1]

Okay, no... it looks a little different. I think its a sign. Eat the fruits which ye have sewn..... I wonder if they're spicy?

 

[Nobody]

Motorsport nerd fact: Mazda named their IMSA prototype car the Kudzu - because the Kudzu was brought to america and just dominated the landscape.

 

[S/CBlack95GT]

Thanks for the ideas, guys. I don't think that it's either, though. I checked a bunch of pics on the internet, and they don't really look the same...

The leaves are very heart shaped, see pic 3.

Also, in pic 2, it appears to be growing a pepper shaped thing...

The vine is also green colored, and tends to twist around itself, so there are 2-4 braided together.

Rick

I may not have the name right, but it's a very common vine. Im from IL and that stuff was always growing on trees and people's houses. I remember it because it has those green banana looking things. Everyone just hosed it with some Round-Up.

 

[Killercanary]

That same plan just started growing like crazy along the side of my house too! I pulled some of it up before I did some landscaping recently and the SOB ran along the ground for a good 6'-8'! I plan to soak the sucker in round up tomorrow. It must be a good time of year for that sucker to be growing!

 

[slytherin]

Do yourself a favor when and if you buy Round UP buy the concentrate(mix yourself) the premix(spraybottle) is only a 1/2 to 1% active ingredient, where the concentrate is 18%. Also get Ortho's version of weed grass killer(concentrate) it's the same active ingredient(Glysophate), it cost's substantially less.

 

[Black95GTS]

That same stuff grows seasonally at my house... we have a chain linked fence around the yard (in ground pool) and every year that stuff grows near one corner of it, starting around the spring, and vines like crazy all over the chain linked fence (doesnt touch the house though) and looks pretty nice in the late fall.

It dies off when winter hits.

- adam

 

[Joes95GT]

WAIT! I know EXACTLY what that is...

It's Rick's new money vine.

Joe

 

[95blackstanggt]

thank for the laugh