Common Ivy

Common ivy (Hedera helix), also called English ivy, is an evergreen climbing plant in the family Araliaceae. It is a liana that can grow on trees, walls, and rocks thanks to short adhesive rootlets. These rootlets don’t have any absorptive property and ivy doesn’t feed on the trees it climbs, unlike mistletoe or other parasitic plants.

The flowers form greenish-yellow umbels and give rise to small black berries, poisonous to humans.

The caption reads in the original French: Lierre commun (Hedera helix).