Description
Le lierre d’ornement – Hedera helix ‘Chrysophylla’ vert
In a nutshell
Ornamental ivy, Hedera helix ‘Chrysophylla’ vert, is presented here in its intermediate stage between the juvenile and adult stages.
Les feuilles sont le plus souvent cordiformes. La panachure se fait plus rare. La plupart des feuilles sont totalement vertes.
C’est une plante qui trouve sa place en isolé, par exemple.
History
Le cultivar ‘Chrysophylla’ figurait déjà dans le catalogue de 1755 de la pépinière Christopher Gray, Fulham, Royaume-Uni sous le nom de ‘Yellow Bloatched Ivy’. C’est en 1865 qu’on le retrouve sous le nom de ‘Chrysophylla’ avec une description rédigée par Robert Veitch & Sons, Exeter, Royaume-Uni.
Fiche technique - Hedera helix 'Chrysophylla' vert
Botanical information
- Family: Araliaceae
- Genus Hedera
- Species : helix
- Cultivar : ‘Chrysophylla’ vert
- Pierot classification: ivy type
- Foliage stage: semi-adult
- Origin of the species: Europe, from Spain to Norway, but little on the Atlantic coast.
- Origin of cultivar: known for a very long time, but under different names.
Description de Hedera helix ‘Chrysophylla’ vert
- Port: stiff, stocky
- Number of lobes: unlobed
- Leaf length: 4 to 5 cm
- Sheet width: 4 cm
- Leaf colour: light to dark green
- Colour of veins: green
- Colour of stem and petiole: purple green
- Base of leaf: cordate
- Leaf apex: acute
- Length of petiole: 2 to 3 cm
- Stem: fairly branched
- Internodes: 2 to 3 cm
- Hairs: stellate, 3 to 5 branches
Conseils plantation, culture et entretien de Hedera helix ‘Chrysophylla’ vert
- Exposure: mid-shade, sun
- Hardiness: -15°C
- Soil moisture: cool soil
- Soil PH: neutral or chalky
- Soil type: all
- Soil richness: ordinary or humus-bearing
- Use: climbing, freestanding, rock garden
- Development: rapid
- Pruning: once a year
- Pests: very rare (spider mites, mealy bugs)
- Diseases: very rare (leaf spots)
Ivy in literature
“O you brown myrtles, with ivy never withered...”





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