Beginner Gardening: GIANT poison oak / fall color., 1 by mdvaden

mdvaden wrote:
Anybody ever planted poison oak as a native plant specimen for fall color?

I did, when in college on my mom's one acre landscape. We knew where it was, and no children were ever around. We didn't keep it there for more than a couple of years, though.

I made a page on poison oak the past month or two... http://www.mdvaden.com/poison_oak.shtml

When researching the plant further, references indicated that gardeners in a couple of countries - years ago - had collected poison oak for fall color.

In the Redwood forest today, I found a huge specimen. It had a 4" to 5" DBH trunk, and the lowest visible foliage was up around 150'. Maybe it's taller, but it vanished out of sight.

Has anybody ever found poison oak this big in their local forests or yards before?

This image only shows the trunk going onto and up the redwood trunk - no way to get the whole poison oak plant in one photo.