Description
Ornamental ivy - Hedera helix ‘Salomé’
In a nutshell
Ornamental ivy, Hedera helix ‘Salomé’, is an ivy with small, arrow-shaped leaves and thin, elongated lobes.
The leaf blade has 3 to 5 lobes, sometimes asymmetrical. The dark red stems are well-branched with tight internodes.
This ivy forms a dense, thick carpet for all types of exposure.
History
This cultivar is the result of a mutation of ‘Sagittaefolia’ selected in our nursery.
Detailed sheet - Hedera helix 'Salomé'
Botanical information
- Family: Araliaceae
- Genre : Hedera
- Species : helix
- Cultivar : ‘Salomé’
- Pierot classification: heart-shaped ivy
- Foliage stage: juvenile
- Origin of the species: Europe, from Spain to Norway, but little on the Atlantic coast.
- Origin of cultivar: unknown
Description of Hedera helix ‘Salomé’
- Growth habit: bushy, dense
- Number of lobes: 3 to 5 lobes in general
- Leaf length: 2 to 4 cm
- Leaf width: 2 to 3 cm
- Leaf colour: green
- Colour variation: reddish in winter
- Colour of veins: light green
- Leaf base: sagittate to hastate, sometimes asymmetrical
- Leaf apex: acute
- Colour of stem and petiole: dark red
- Length of petiole: 2 to 3 cm
- Branches: well branched
- Mattress thickness: thick
- Internodes: 1 cm
- Hairs: stellate, 3 to 5 branches
Planting, cultivation and maintenance advice for Hedera helix ‘Salomé’
- Exposure: shade, part shade, sun
- Hardiness: -15°C
- Soil moisture: cool soil
- Soil PH: neutral or chalky
- Soil type: all
- Soil richness: ordinary or humus-bearing
- Use: ground cover, climber, pot, window box, hanging baskets
- Development: moderate
- Growth rate: rapid
- Pruning: once a year
- Pests: rare (e.g. otiorhynchs)
- Diseases: rare (e.g. leaf spots)
Ivy in literature
“But an ivy, climbed up to the fallen ridge, Ruffles above like a head of hair... ”







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