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Hedera rhombea (Miq.) Bean

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Hedera rhombea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hedera/hedera-rhombea/). Accessed 2024-12-05.

Genus

Synonyms

  • H. helix var. rhombea Miq.
  • H. japonica W. Paul, not Junghuhn
  • H. tobleri Nakai

Glossary

cuneate
Wedge-shaped.
indumentum
A covering of hairs or scales.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
subspecies
(subsp.) Taxonomic rank for a group of organisms showing the principal characters of a species but with significant definable morphological differentiation. A subspecies occurs in populations that can occupy a distinct geographical range or habitat.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Hedera rhombea' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/hedera/hedera-rhombea/). Accessed 2024-12-05.

Hedera rhombea

Foliage on Hedera rhombea, from a plant at the Koishikawa Botanical Garden Tokyo, Japan (13 October 2023). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Leaves triangular to ovate, often heart-shaped at the base, usually slightly three-lobed, very dark green. Leaves on adult branches mostly angular ovate, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base. Fruits black. The indumentum of the young shoots, etc., consists of scales made up of fifteen to twenty rays.

Native of Japan and Korea (but a closely related ivy grows in Formosa and is now regarded as a subspecies of H. rhombea). It is of rather delicate growth, but quite hardy.

Hedera rhombea

Leaf selection on Hedera rhombea, with the lamina rather small and cordate-ovate to moderately 3-lobed and truncate to rounded at base (Koishikawa Botanical Garden Tokyo, Japan – 13 October 2023). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

'Variegata'

Leaves with a narrow margin of creamy white (H. helix submarginata Hibb.). In cultivation 1867.

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