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{{trope}}
[[File:know your vines 2145.png|link=Xkcd|frame|[http://xkcd.com/443/ Friggen' modern tents don't] [[Alt Text|have a single piece of rope.]]]]
{{quote|Hmmm... delicious tea? Or deadly poison?
|Uncle Iroh| Avatar: The Last Airbender}}
A character is in a very nature oriented setting, with all kinds of wild plants surrounding them. They're doing whatever it is they planned to do, and at some point pick up or walk into an ordinary looking plant. After a small amount of contact with it, someone who is more knowledgeable about nature will casually inform them "That's poison ivy" (or poison oak, the plants have the same toxin).
Note: These are generally played for laughs. If you're weak of stomach, do ''not'' Google the types of injuries these plants can create (Unless you'd really like to see an example of a blister the size of a football). Oh, and poison sumac, if burned, releases a gas that causes allergic reactions that can kill. It really pays to know your plants before you go hiking.
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== Comic Books ==
* One ''[[Archie Comics]]'' story ended with the revelation that the corsage Archie gave Veronica to wear at the prom was poison ivy.
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== Fan
* ''[[The Legend of Spyro: A New Dawn|The Legend of Spyro a New Dawn]]'': After going awhile into the forest temple, Sparx begins getting an unpleasent rash. Ember identifies the plants in the bush he passed through as poison ivy, which she knows because her mother taught her about it (not because Dragons get poison ivy, which they don't, but because eating it is really dangerous).
* One ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' fanfic, "The One Gigantic Fix", riffed on by [[Topless Robot|Rob Bricken]] [http://www.toplessrobot.com/2010/03/fan_fiction_friday_zack_morris_in_the_one_gigantic.php here], uses poison ivy as the reason why Zack has a permanent erection and thus needs some [[Deus Sex Machina]] to save him. Maybe.
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* In ''[[NCIS]]'', while investigating a murder in a national park McGee has to search a patch of poison ivy for a murder weapon. Tony recognizes what the plant is, but decides not to tell him.
** To be fair, Tony had been telling McGee about searching in the outdoors, when McGee went off on him for treating him like a probie, and assures Tony that he learned plenty in Boy Scouts.
** in another episode, Tony Dinozzo unknowingly gets poison oak while looking for evidence in a case, where a naval petty officer was shot by a sniper with a MO similar to the TriState Sniper, in their sniper's nest covered in the stuff.
* Stuart and Ann's camping misadventure on ''[[L.A. Law]]''. Remember the TP next time.
== Newspaper Comics ==
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