Scientific Name: Parthenocissus henryana
Common Name: Henryana parthenocissus, Chinese Virginia creeper
Family Name: Vitaceae
Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C)
Plant Type: Vine - deciduous
Mature Size: 5 - 7m x 5 - 7m (height x width)
Habit: Arching, Pendulous, Spreading, Twiggy
Form: Climbing, Irregular
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Arbors or trellis, Attract birds, Fall interest, Ground cover, Screening, Summer interest
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Humus rich, Well-drained
Leaves: Compound, Alternate, Leathery, Pubescent, Digitate (palmate), Oblanceolate, Obovate, Ovate, Dentate
Flowers: Cyme, Green, Jul-Aug
Fruit: Berry (true), Blue, Sep-Oct
Key ID Features:
Leaves palmately compound with 3-5 leaflets, oblanceolate, most 3-12cm long x 2-4cm wide, venation silvery, margin toothed midway towards apex, turning red in fall; berries dark blue.