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Hedera crebrescens is a species of ivy in the flowering plant family Araliaceae. It is found in central Europe, where it is now a potentially invasive species. First described in 2017, the species has also subsequently been identified from herbarium specimens collected back to the 19th century.
Hedera, commonly called ivy (plural ivies), is a genus of 12–15 species of evergreen climbing or ground-creeping woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to Western Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe, Macaronesia, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan and Taiwan.
Ivy usually refers to any plant species in the genus Hedera, in the family Araliaceae - notably common ivy Hedera helix. Ivy may also refer to other plant species:- Boston ivy Parthenocissus tricuspidata; cape ivy Senecio angulatus and Senecio tamoides; coliseum ivy, Kenilworth ivy, Oxford ivy, Cymbalaria muralis; devil's ivy Epipremnum aureum
[2] [4] The principal pollen forage plant is ivy (Hedera helix) [4] (hence the specific epithet hederae), but both sexes will also nectar at ivy flowers too. When ivy is scarce, other species of plants are also visited. The females supply the larval brood cells almost exclusively with nectar and pollen of ivy flowers.
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Hedera pastuchovii, is a species of ivy native to eastern Transcaucasia and listed in The Red Book of the Azerbaijan SSR, 1989. It is an evergreen woody climber, growing in mixed forests to 20–30 m high where suitable trees are available but failing to thrive as a groundcover plant. It climbs by means of aerial rootlets which cling to the ...
Hedera iberica is a species of ivy (genus Hedera) which is native to the western Iberian peninsula (Portugal and southwest Spain), and northern Morocco. It was formerly classified as a sub-species named Hedera maderensis iberica in Hedera maderensis (K. Koch ex A. Rutherf). [1] The Iberian subspecies was subsequently classified as a distinct ...
The morphology of Araliaceae varies widely. Many studies have found that there is no unifying characteristic capable of classifying the family. [6] In general, Araliaceae species have large, usually alternate leaves, often with aromatic ethereal oils, five-petaled flowers, two to five carpels, simple umbels, and berries without carpophores or oil cavities. [7]