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How to read a taxoboxHedera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Division:Magnoliophyta
Class:Magnoliopsida
Order:Apiales
Family:Araliaceae
Subfamily:Aralioideae
Genus:Hedera
L.
Species
  • Hedera algeriensis – Algerian Ivy
  • Hedera azorica – Azores Ivy
  • Hedera canariensis – Canaries Ivy
  • Hedera caucasigena
  • Hedera colchica – Caucasian Ivy
  • Hedera cypria
  • Hedera helix – Common Ivy
  • Hedera hibernica – Irish Ivy
  • Hedera maderensis – Madeiran Ivy
  • Hedera maroccana
  • Hedera nepalensis – Himalayan Ivy
  • Hedera pastuchowii – Pastuchov's Ivy
  • Hedera rhombea – Japanese Ivy
  • Hedera sinensis
  • Hedera taurica

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 25–30 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 3–5 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 Willow Beauty.


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