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Hedera canariensis
Also called Canary Island Ivy, Madeira Ivy, Algerian Ivy, Canary Islands Ivy
Canary Ivy is an evergreen climbing or trailing woody plant from the Canary Islands, grown for its glossy leaves and as ground cover or a climber on walls and trees. It grows quickly in warm, mild climates, and it clings with aerial rootlets, so it needs suitable surfaces or room to spread.
Hedera canariensis, the Canary Island ivy, Canary ivy or Madeira ivy, is a species of ivy, native to the Canary Islands and possibly the Atlantic coast of northern Africa.
They are climbing plants with evergreen leaves that may grow from the bottom of the ravines and river canyons lining the entire surface of the wall or cliff. Ivy climbs with adventitious roots and can reach up to 50 meter in length. Ivies are plants adapted to the laurel forest, a type of cloud forest habitat. European Ivy for example, is believed was spread by birds that helped to colonize large areas again where it had disappeared during the glaciations.
Algerian Ivy · Azores Ivy · Colchis ivy · Hedera crebrescens · Hedera cypria · Common Ivy · Atlantic Ivy · Hedera iberica · Hedera maderensis · Hedera maroccana · Himalayan Ivy · Persian Ivy
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hedera canariensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
