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<p class="MsoNormal">I have treated it in Rock Creek Park (DC side), around the park police horse stables/community garden off of Oregon Ave. that was at least 10 yrs ago, and I had checked for a few years after treatment but haven’t seen the area in the
last 5-7yrs to know if it has rebounded at all or if it gave up the fight. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I believe it is also called “Five Leaved Aralia” and what I treated looked exactly like what you have in the pics. Medium sized, multi stemmed shrub 5-8 ft. tall (generally) and small very sharp thorns on the stems (at/near the base of
the leaves). <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This is one of the only places that I have seen it in the DC, Md, Northern VA area however, hopefully it is not more wide spread than we realize.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the heads up on the Baltimore County sighting, we will keep our eye out.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> MAIPC <maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Kate Wagner<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 01, 2018 11:39 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> maipc@lists.maipc.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [MAIPC] Five-fingered Aralia Spotted in Baltimore City<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#000099">Hello MA-IPC, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#000099">I wanted to alert the listserve that
</span><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eddmaps.org%2Fmidatlantic%2Fdistribution%2Fcounty.cfm%3Fsub%3D57528%26id%3Dus_md_24510&data=02%7C01%7CRobert.Servis%40montgomeryparks.org%7C6a2bb1dbe92a464b19cb08d5f7c4f924%7Ca9061e0c24ca4c1cbeff039bb8c05816%7C0%7C1%7C636687347737295389&sdata=3smdqlgkqrBqPZ6d6jYpgx%2B%2FpssOm7EKc43zcvpS0NE%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">I've
spotted a developing stand of Five-fingered Aralia </span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#000099">(<i>Eleutherococcus sieboldianus</i>) in Baltimore City. The plant, which does not appear to have been intentionally planted,
has colonized approximately 35 square feet of an embankment in Wyman Park. </span><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eddmaps.org%2Fdistribution%2Frecord.cfm%3Fid%3D7638330&data=02%7C01%7CRobert.Servis%40montgomeryparks.org%7C6a2bb1dbe92a464b19cb08d5f7c4f924%7Ca9061e0c24ca4c1cbeff039bb8c05816%7C0%7C1%7C636687347737305394&sdata=3%2FZ7xANprP4znoJJQpt%2BEydCl1OVJXY68zpq0gpMTfo%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1155CC">The
report has been verified on EDDMapS. </span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#000099"> This is the first verified sighting of the plant in Maryland in </span><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eddmaps.org%2Fmidatlantic%2Fdistribution%2Fusstate.cfm%3Fsub%3D57528&data=02%7C01%7CRobert.Servis%40montgomeryparks.org%7C6a2bb1dbe92a464b19cb08d5f7c4f924%7Ca9061e0c24ca4c1cbeff039bb8c05816%7C0%7C1%7C636687347737305394&sdata=7WJwIG%2Fmi4wnHlqPV6vPjkTmQRK2XaCe3rFyuphzyFc%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#1155CC">EDDMapS
since May 2016</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#000099">, and is the first in Baltimore City. My hope is that this is an isolated incident and that the plant has merely escaped from a nearby ornamental planting. I plan
on taking a closer look on my walk tomorrow. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#000099">Links to pictures of the specimen:
</span><a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsecure.bugwoodcloud.org%2Feddmaps%2Fimages%2Freport%2F3072x2048%2F7638330_1.jpg&data=02%7C01%7CRobert.Servis%40montgomeryparks.org%7C6a2bb1dbe92a464b19cb08d5f7c4f924%7Ca9061e0c24ca4c1cbeff039bb8c05816%7C0%7C1%7C636687347737315407&sdata=HDz1jGerBXbDM%2Fre4lIXQTQUecl8PSrWCdNL9xU7of4%3D&reserved=0"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Image
1</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#000099">,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#000099">Since I did not see any prior Baltimore area reports of the plant on either iNaturalist or EDDMapS, I wanted to make sure the listserve was
made aware of this sighting just in case. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#000099">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#000099">Kate Wagner. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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