Description
Le lierre d’ornement – Hedera helix ‘Tenerife’
In a nutshell
Ornamental ivy, Hedera helix ‘Tenerife’, is a medium-growing, climbing plant with numerous branches.
The leaves are mainly 3-lobed, rarely 5-lobed, and are generally 2 x 3.5 cm in size. A few scattered leaves are slightly larger. The basic colour of the leaves is dark green and cream to grey-green. The amount of green colour on the leaves varies greatly, some leaves are covered with large spots in combination with green and grey tones, others are half green or almost entirely cream.
The leaves tend to be light yellow in the shade, and in these areas, small green spots appear on almost all the leaves of ‘Teneriffe’. They are round or almost round, and rarely measure more than a millimetre in diameter. This is also characteristic of the variety.
In cold weather, the underside of the leaf can sometimes be tinted pink.
This variety was voted «Ivy of the Year» by the American Ivy Society in 2014.
History
Le cultivar est déjà listé dans le catalogue de la pépinière Haage & Schmidt en 1862, sous le nom de Microphylla Picta’. Il a été décrit et nommé ‘Tenerife » par Grüber en 1983. On le trouve naturalisé en Espagne et dans l’ile de Tenerife, Açores.
Fiche technique - Hedera helix 'Tenerife'
Botanical information
- Family: Araliaceae
- Genus Hedera
- Species : helix
- Cultivar : ‘Tenerife’
- Pierot classification: ivy type
- Foliage stage: juvenile
- Origin of the species: Europe, from Spain to Norway, but little on the Atlantic coast.
- Origine du cultivar : naturalisé en Espagne et dans l’île de Tenerife
Description de Hedera helix ‘Tenerife’
- Growth habit: spreading, sparse
- Number of lobes: 3 to 5 lobes in general
- Leaf length: 3.5 cm
- Sheet width: 2 cm
- Leaf colour: cream with green spots
- Colour of veins: cream
- Colour of stem and petiole: greenish purple or brown
- Hairs: stellate, 3 to 5 branches
Conseils plantation, culture et entretien de Hedera helix ‘Tenerife’
- Exposure: sun, part shade
- Hardiness: -15°C
- Soil moisture: cool soil
- Soil PH: neutral or chalky
- Soil type: all
- Soil richness: ordinary or humus-bearing
- Use: climber, rockery, topiary, pot, window box, houseplant
- Development: moderate, slow
- Pruning: once a year
- Pests: very rare (spider mites, mealy bugs)
- Diseases: very rare (leaf spots)
Ivy in literature
“Ivy protects the grave, like a faithful friend who never leaves the memory of the dead.”








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