Description
Japanese ivy - Hedera rhombea 'Submarginata Arborescens
In a nutshell
Japanese ivy, Hedera rhombea 'Submarginata Arborescens', is a slow-growing ivy. Stems bear asymmetrical leaves mottled with dark green and gray-green.
It forms a small shrub with oval leaves that deserves to be placed in isolation in a pot or even in a rock garden.
It tolerates sun well, but we prefer part shade.
Technical leaflet - Hedera rhombea 'Submarginata Arborescens
Botanical information
- Family: Araliaceae
- Genre : Hedera
- Species: rhombea
- Cultivar: 'Submarginata Arborescens
- Pierot classification: adult ivy
- Foliage stage: adult
- Species origin: Japan, East Asia
- Origin of cultivar: unknown
Description of Hedera rhombea 'Submarginata Arborescens
- Growth habit: shrubby
- Number of lobes: unlobed
- Leaf length: 4 cm
- Sheet width: 3 cm
- Leaf color: mottled dark green and gray green
- Color of veins: light green
- Petiole length 3 to 4 cm
- Stem: sparsely branched
- Stem and petiole color: green
- Hairs: scaly, small, composed of 10 to 18 branches
- Flower color: greenish, umbellate
- Fruit color: black
Advice on planting, cultivation and care of Hedera rhombea 'Submarginata Arborescens'.
- Exposure: sun, part shade
- Hardiness: -12°C
- Soil moisture: cool soil
- Soil PH: neutral, calcareous or acidic
- Soil type: all
- Soil richness: ordinary or humus-bearing
- Use: freestanding, potted, rock garden
- Development: slow
- Size: not required
- Pests: very rare (red spider mites, scale insects)
- Diseases: very rare (leaf spots)
Le lierre dans la littérature
"Ivy, the eternal companion of ruins, reminds us that even stones, under the weight of time, are not forgotten."
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