Show Filtering Options. Explore Our Guides:. You might be surprised to know that jasmine holds. David is the cofounder of Terremoto, a landscape d. It produces branching tendrils that form adhesive disks at their tips upon contact with the host surface. This brings us to crossvine, one of the more attractive and interesting vines in our flora. The foliage turns from a lustrous green to a reddish purple in the winter.
The flowers are bell-shaped with orange on the outside and yellow inside. The vine gets its name from the cross-shaped pith, as seen in a cross-section of the stem. The opposite leaves are divided into two leaflets. Crossvine climbs by utilizing a combination of threadlike tendrils and sticky discs.
Blooming in damp woods and along forest edges from April to early June in often profuse clusters of hundreds of flowers, crossvine is fairly common yet strangely overlooked in the field and as an ornamental.
George Ellison is a naturalist and writer. His wife, Elizabeth Ellison, is a painter and papermaker who owns a gallery in Bryson City. Grape is a classic vine with tendrils. Another vine that prefers wire, chain-link fence or small thin lattice is clematis. This vine uses its petioles the short stem that attaches the leaf to the plant to wrap around the support. Vines with aerial roots such ad Baltic ivy or climbing hydrangea use small root-like structures that grow out from the sides of the stems to support themselves.
Climbing plants normally start by creeping along the floor until they reach a stem. Although the point of climbing is to escape the shade, some tropical climbers begin by growing away from the light, because this makes them more likely to reach a tree trunk.
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