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Hedera rhombea
Japanese ivy (Hedera rhombea), also called songak, is an evergreen climbing ivy native to East Asia that clings to trees and walls with aerial rootlets, and can also be grown as ground cover. It is grown mainly for its glossy, diamond-shaped leaves in temperate gardens.
Hedera rhombea, the Japanese ivy or songak, is a species of ivy in the Araliaceae family native to East Asia. It is native to Japan, the Korean Peninsula, the Ryukyu Islands, and Taiwan, where it is common on rocky slopes and growing up the trunks of trees, especially in laurel forest, a type of cloud forest.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hedera rhombea 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.
