Identification please

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  1. isascott

    isascott Apprentice Gardener

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    Hi. This plant grew on a sunny wall in Lancs without any support such as trellis or netting. We have moved to Kent and would like to use it to cover a concrete slab wall. Can anyone help identify it please. Many thanks
     

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    looks to me like a kind of Virginia creeper - Parthenocissus - probably Parthenocissus quinquefolia. Nice and easy from cuttings so if a friend has it.... :WINK1:
     
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    I did not know that a Virginia Creeper flowered ... you learn something every day. :dbgrtmb: It's such a stunning vine in the Autumn, something I miss here. :cry3:
     
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    It looks like Hydrangea petiolaris to me.
     
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    Victoria - we had this discussion about things flowering some time ago when we decided that Poinsettias did flower. It took me a long time to realise that everything flowers and sets seed - though if they are not showy like a grass you can easily miss them. If they didn't the species would die out.

    Mind you ferns and mosses are not part of the flowering plant kindom and they don't flower.
     
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    :scratch: Well to be honest it could be either in my opinion... When was your photo taken a that will have allot of bearing on iyt.. Otherwise I tend to lean towards Dai.......
     
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    I would agree on Parthenocissus ...Often the flowers go on to product deep blue/black berries.
    Easy to propagate from cuttings .

    Dave
     
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    The leaf shape is wrong for Virginia Creeper.
     
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    The angle of the pic make it very difficult to tell whether the leaves are opposite to each other... or not.

    Or whether they are 5 lobed... or not.

    I have looked long and hard at this pic ...I am not at all sure that the leaf shape correct for Hydrangea petiolaris.



    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...Arboretum_-_Hydrangea_petiolaris_-_leaves.JPG
     
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    I`ll stick with H. petiolaris. :dbgrtmb:
     
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    Still don't think it's Hydrangea petiolaris have a look at this photo see what you think .
    Must admit the photo of Virginia Creeper look odd .

    [​IMG]

    Dave
     
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    I`m even more certain.:dbgrtmb:
     
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    Cannot see it myself ..we must agree to disagree ..Photos can be deceiving sometimes ..

    Dave
     
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    Hydrangea petiolaris has serrated leaves. Virginia Creeper doesn`t. :dbgrtmb:
     
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    I agree the photo is not as text book but this is another photo of virginia creeper showing serrated edges ??
    We may never know :scratch:

    [​IMG]

    Dave
     
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