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Hedera rhombea

Botanic Family

Araliaceae

Author

(Miquel) Siebold ex Bean

Propagation

C.L.

Cultivated

C, ornamental with cultivars

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Taiwan - China
• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Ryukyu Is.
• Shikoku - Japan
• Korea

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• coastal thickets and woodland

Flowering Times

• Sep
• Oct
• Oct-Nov (Japan)

Fruiting Times

• Mar (Japan)

Self-clinging evergreen woody climber yellowish scaly branches. Coriaceous unlobed mid-green glabrescent leaves sometimes with white recurved margins to 75mm x 42mm, sometimes 2-3 lobed, juvenile leaves on vegetative non-flowering shoots palmately 3-5 lobed. Terminal umbels or corymbs of green-yellow flowers to 5mm across. Glossy black berry to 7mm across with persistent style.

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Rose 1980
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• JAA
• FOJ
• Kew
• Wiart 2