Authors: C. Stace, R. van der Meijden (ed.) & I. de Kort (ed.)
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Scientific name:

Hedera colchica

Vernacular name:

Ivy, Persian


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Persian Ivy

Scientific name: Hedera colchica (K. Koch) K. Koch

Diagnostic features
Stems creeping, scrambling and weakly climbing to c.10m.
Leaves mostly 15-25cm wide, unlobed or slightly 3-5-lobed, entire or denticulate, with orange-brown semi-peltate hairs with mostly 15-25 rays held parallel to surface.

Chromosome number: (2n=192).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; much grown in shrubberies and on walls and often long-persistent and spreading.

Distribution
Scattered over Britain, Man; Caucasus.

This species is keyed out on Page 1027 in the Text Key.

Hedera colchica (Ivy, Persian)
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