Hardiness zones
Sunset 8-24
USDA 8 - 11
Landscape Use: Wall and trellis cover in Phoenix, also topiary.
Form & Character: Deceptively delicate, woodsy, tropical to subtropical looking evergreen vine.
Growth Habit: Slow when young becoming aggressive and vigorous, spreading to up to 1000 to 5000 ft2.
Foliage/texture: Creeping fig like English and Algerian ivy has two distinct leaf types, juvenile and adult. The juvenile foliage small cordate to ovate, oblique inequilaterally base, ciliate hairs on underside of leaf, aerial roots attach to most anything, adult leaves 2-3 times larger on erect adult branches, medium fine texture.
Flowers & fruits: Flowers small, greenish yellow; fruit is a rounded green to brown fig to 3" in diameter, flowers and fruit are seen on adult foliage only.
Seasonal color: none
Temperature: Hardy to 10oF, more cold hardy that appearance would suggest.
Light: Shade to partial sun; leaves yellow in direct Phoenix sun
Soil: Iron chlorosis in alkaline Phoenix soils is common
Watering: Regular irrigations, not drought tolerant
Pruning: Prune vigorously every few years to control vigorous spread
Propagation: Cutting
Disease and pests: Spider mites during Summer
Additional comments: Aggressive growth habit plus aerial adventitious roots warrants discretionary use of this vine in order to circumvent maintenance problems, especially adventitious root digestion of wood structures. This plant is tougher than its delicate appearance would suggest.
