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Scientific name:

Hedera algeriensis

Vernacular name:

Ivy, Algerian


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Algerian Ivy

Scientific name: Hedera algeriensis Hibberd

Diagnostic features
Stems variously creeping and climbing to c.5m.
Leaves mostly 6-15cm wide, usually some 3-lobed, entire, with orange-brown semi-peltate hairs with mostly 8-18 rays held parallel to surface.

Chromosome number: (2n=96).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; grown in conservatories and on patios and walls, sometimes persisting and spreading.

Distribution
Scattered in South & West Britain North to Centralwest Scotland, Man; North Africa.

Note
The commonest indoor variegated ivy, usually mis-named Hedera canariensis; usually with distinctive long red petioles.

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

Hedera algeriensis (Ivy, Algerian)
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