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Madeiran ivy is a climbing evergreen from the island of Madeira, grown mainly in mild gardens and as a climber on walls and trees. It is most at home in cool, humid, lightly shaded conditions.
Hedera maderensis, the Madeiran ivy, is a species of ivy (genus Hedera) which is native to the Atlantic coast in Madeira island. It is a plant of botanical family Araliaceae, species endemic to the island of Madeira with the name: Hedera maderensis (K. Koch ex A. Rutherf). Formerly a subspecies named Hedera maderensis iberica, one iberian subspecies in west Iberian peninsula was subsequently classified as a distinct species. It is quite common in Madeira and lives in slopes rock, soil, trunks of trees especially in Laurel forest of Barbusano.
It is presented as a plant shrub or bush perennial climbing, with aerial roots. Stems are green or greenish-brown, sometimes tinged with red or purple. This plant has broad leaves, 2 to 8.5 inches and a few leathery, with 1-5 lobes small, regular in size and shape.
Algerian Ivy · Azores Ivy · Canary Ivy · Colchis ivy · Hedera crebrescens · Hedera cypria · Common Ivy · Atlantic Ivy · Hedera iberica · Hedera maroccana · Himalayan Ivy · Persian Ivy
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hedera maderensis 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.
