Common Names

• Japaneses Creeper
• Boston-Ivy

    "Boston-ivy produces glossy dark green three-lobed leaves up to eight inches wide that turn crimson red in autumn. It is a high-climbing deciduous vine similar in all respects to the Virginia creeper except for leaf shape, which is here more ivylike."⁴ 

• Vine, stems to 20m, climbing
• Young shoots glabrous
• Tendrils short, much-branched, with terminal adhesive disks
• Leaves very variable, trifoliate or suborbicular-deltoid
• Acuminately 3-lobed
• Dull dark blue with bloom in Summer
• Seed 1-2 (see 2 )

     Boston ivy on wall (see 4 )
 

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