Hedera rhombea - Japanese ivy
Fine, delicate matte leaves with soft green or silvery veins.
Rhombic leaves, i.e. diamond-shaped, hence its botanical name. Thin, purple-green stems, like the petioles.
Vigorous creeping or climbing ivy.
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Description
Japanese ivy - Hedera rhombea
In a nutshell
Japanese ivy, Hedera rhombea, It has fine, delicate matt leaves with soft green or silvery veins.
The leaves are rhombic, i.e. diamond-shaped, hence the botanical name. The stems are slender and purple-green, like the petioles.
It is a vigorous creeping or climbing ivy.
Technical details - Hedera rhombea
Botanical information - Hedera rhombea
- Family: Araliaceae
- Genre : Hedera
- Species : rhombea
- Synonyms: Hedera formosana, Hedera japonica, Hedera pedunculata
- Pierot classification: ivy type
- Foliage stage: juvenile
- Origin of the species: Japan, Korea, Taiwan
Description - Hedera rhombea
- Growth habit: spreading, sparse
- Number of lobes: 3, sometimes 5
- Leaf length: 5 to 8 cm
- Leaf width: 4 to 7 cm
- Leaf colour: fairly dark green, matt
- Colour of veins: silver or light green
- Shape of juvenile leaf: rhombic
- Shape of adult leaf: oval
- Leaf base: clearly cordate, sometimes hastate
- Length of petiole: 3 to 8 cm
- Colour of stem and petiole: green to pink
- Internodes: 2 to 3 cm
- Hair: scale-like, 0.1 to 0.3 mm in diameter, reddish in the centre, fairly uniform.
Planting, growing and care tips - Hedera rhombea
- Exposure: shade, part shade
- Hardiness: -12°C
- Soil moisture: cool soil
- Soil PH: neutral, calcareous, acidic
- Soil type: all
- Soil richness: ordinary or humus-bearing
- Use: ground cover, climber
- Development: vigorous
- Pruning: once a year
- Pests: rare (spider mites, scale insects)
- Diseases: rare (leaf spots)
Ivy in literature
“The old wall is adorned with ivy, as if the centuries were entwined in it.”
Victor Hugo, Les Contemplations
Additional information
| Weight | N/A |
|---|---|
| Stock of 1-litre cups and pots | 0 jar |
| Stock 2 or 4 litre containers | 6 to 10 containers |
| Large stock items | 0 big topic |
| General appearance | Spread |
| Type of foliage and colour | Green |
| Possible uses | Ground cover, Climber |
| Exhibition | Part shade, Shade, Sun |
| Hardiness | Fairly hardy |
| Easy to grow | Easy |
| Speed | Average |
| Vigorous development | Vigorous |
| Classification according to the Pierot system | Ivy type |
| Reward obtained | No known reward |
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