Hedera Helix Description

Hedera Helix is an beloved aggressive plant, growing to 20–30 m (66–98 ft) top area acceptable surfaces (trees, cliffs, walls) are available, and aswell growing as groundcover area there are no vertical surfaces. It climbs by agency of aeriform rootlets with disordered pads which adhere acerb to the substrate.

The leaves are alternate, 50–100 mm long, with a 15–20 mm petiole; they are of two types, with palmately five-lobed adolescent leaves on bit-by-bit and aggressive stems, and unlobed cordate developed leaves on abundant beginning stems apparent to abounding sun, usually top in the crowns of copse or the top of bedrock faces.

The flowers are produced from backward summer until backward autumn, alone small, in 3–5 cm bore umbels, greenish-yellow, and actual affluent in nectar, an important backward autumn aliment antecedent for bees and added insects.

The bake-apple are purple-black to orange-yellow berries 6–8 mm diameter, ripening in backward winter, and are an important aliment for abounding birds, admitting somewhat poisonous to humans.

There are one to 5 seeds in anniversary berry, which are broadcast by birds bistro the berries.

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