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Common Ivy - Hedera helix
A woody climber to 30 metres, though often less. Leaves deep shiny green and leathery, often with paler veins, those of immature plant often 3 to 5 lobed, those of mature flowering branches are heart shaped or elliptical and all untoothed. Flowers yellowish-green with yellow anthers, 7 to 9 mm, borne in small, rather dense umbels, petals eventually reflexed. Fruit globose, 6 to 8 mm dull black when ripe in bunches.
Woodland, hedgerows, walls and old buildings.
September to November.
Evergreen.
Very common throughout Britain.
Very common in Leicestershire and Rutland. In the 1979 Flora survey of Leicestershire it was found in 591 of the 617 tetrads.
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Species profile
- Common names
- Ivy
- Species group:
- Trees, Shrubs & Climbers
- Kingdom:
- Plantae
- Order:
- Apiales
- Family:
- Araliaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 731
- First record:
- 11/05/1992 (John Mousley;Steve Grover)
- Last record:
- 04/05/2024 (Carter, Robert)
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Boeremia hedericola
Boeremia hedericola is a Coelomycetes fungus which produces large distinctive spots on the leaves of various Ivy species (Araliaceae). It only produces asexual spores from the tiny brown pycnidia (fruiting bodies).