red ivy climbing a wall
Red ivy It is a deciduous woody vine growing to 30Êm tall or more given suitable support attaching itself by means of numerous small branched tendrils tipped with sticky disks The leaves are simple palmately lobed with three lobes occasionally unlobed or with five lobes or sufficiently deeply lobed to be palmately compound with usually three leaflets the leaves range from 5 22Êcm across The flowers are inconspicuous greenish in clusters the fruit is a small dark blue grape 5 10Êmm diameter Hedera English name ivy plural ivies is a genus of 15 species of climbing or ground creeping evergreen woody plants in the family Araliaceae native to the Atlantic Islands western central and southern Europe northwestern Africa and across central southern Asia east to Japan On suitable surfaces trees and rock faces they are able to climb to at least 25Ð30 metres above the basal ground level They have two leaf types with palmately lobed juvenile leaves on creeping and climbing stems and unlobed cordate adult leaves on fertile flowering stems exposed to full sun usually high in the crowns of trees or the top of rock faces The juvenile and adult shoots also differ the former being slender flexible and scrambling or climbing with small roots to affix the shoot to the substrate rock or tree bark the latter thicker self supporting and without roots The flowers are produced in late autumn individually small in 3Ð5 cm diameter umbels greenish yellow and very rich in nectar an important late food source for bees and other insects the fruit are small black berries ripening in late winter and are an important food for many birds though poisonous to humans The seeds are dispersed by birds eating the fruit The leaves are eaten by the larvae of some species of Lepidoptera such as Angle Shades Lesser Broad bordered Yellow Underwing Scalloped Hazel Small Angle Shades Small Dusty Wave which feeds exclusively on ivy Swallow tailed Moth and Will
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