Scientific name: Hedera hibernica

Common name: evergreen ivy

Family name: Araliaceae

Useful cultivars and selections:

USDA hardiness zone:

Mature height and spread: 20-30m high. 4-8m wide

Form: climbing

Water use: moderate

Soil requirements: well-drained. moist

Leaf arrangement: simple. Alternate .

Fall colour: none

Flower/cone/fruit description: blue, black berries.

Limitations: poisonous berries. Invasive. Don’t plant

Suitable uses: don’t use.

Quick ID: evergreen. Climbing vine. Blue/black berries. Simple. Alternate. Palmately lobed leaves (5), curved petioles, purple stems, no veins on back of young leaves. Young leaves not as lobes as older ones.