What are some facts about English Ivy Plant? and Bomarea sp. #3

What are some facts about English Ivy Plant?

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Answer by Dulce Amor
Taxonomy classifies English ivy plants as Hedera helix.
----English ivy plants can act as ground covers, spreading horizontally and reaching 8" in height. But they are also climbers, due to their aerial rootlets, which allow them to climb to heights of 50' or more. They will eventually bear insignificant greenish flowers but are grown primarily for their evergreen foliage.
----...five species of evergreen woody vines (rarely shrubs), in the ginseng family (Araliaceae). The name ivy especially denotes the commonly grown English ivy (H. helix), which climbs by aerial roots with adhering disks that develop on the stems. English ivy is frequently planted to...

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Bomarea sp. #3


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Alstroemeriaceae - Mexico, Central and South America
Bomarea
Shown: Detail of pendulous inflorescence; individual flowers to 3 cm long; this is the second inflorescence produced by a seedling grown plant of unidentified species purchased at the plant shop of U.C. Botanical Garden at Berkeley approx. 18 mos. ago; plant is container grown, receiving (in our cool summer, frostless climate) several hours of morning sun and bright shade the rest of the day; individual, twining stems have reached approx. 2 m in one year

Detailed description of range, cultural requirements and selected species:
www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/Bomarea

"Bomarea is one of the two major genera in the plant family Alstroemeriaceae. Most occur in the Andes. Several species are occasionally found as garden plants.

"It is essentially a twining version of their relatives in Alstroemeria, though some species stand freely upright.

"Perhaps the most fascinating — and telltale — morphological trait of most if not all Alstroemeriaceae is the fact that the leaves are resupinate: they twist from the base so that what appears to be the upper leaf surface is in fact the lower leaf surface." (Wikipedia)

My complete set of images of this Bomarea sp.:
www.flickr.com/photos/jim-sf/sets/72157626349901027/


Photographed in my garden in San Francisco, California

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