Have to admit that I'm a city-slicker yankee sometimes and this is one of them.
My mother liked to bring back woody plants from the woods they own 100 miles south.
She imported quite a few dumbass invasives with her cute little flower things or whatever.
Poison Ivy was growing under a tree when I took over.
Was all proud of myself when I figured out how, what, and when to spray on the shit to kill it.
Then this spring I placed a deer stand and a bee trap on that tree.
Caught a swarm of bees in it. While taking the box down I discovered the vines and all the "leaves of three".
Fuck it's up in the tree too. Thought I'd conquered it.
I cut the vines with loppers and stripped em off the tree from ground to about six feet up.
Noticed how the vines sort of root to the tree.
Question is is that going to kill it or will the vines somehow suck their life from the tree?
I don't get poison Ivy but my wife does.