Plant and Tree Identification: SOLVED: Attractive arborescent form of Hedera, but what is it's name

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Author Content lortay Navan Ireland November 3, 2009 09:59 AM Post #7236815 This is a shrubby form of variegated Ivy, grown here for many years and named as 'Hedera helix 'Arborea Variegata'. I have never come across this name anywhere else. Any ideas. Click the image for an enlarged view. Malus2006 Coon Rapids, MN (Zone 4a) November 3, 2009 12:01 PM Post #7237176 Can you take a closer picture? For some reason it doesn't look like any ivy species I have seen but who know? themoonhowl Prairieville, LA (Zone 9a) November 3, 2009 12:07 PM Post #7237210 Lortay, that plant looks very much like the Dwarf variegated Euonymous fortunei http://www.brighterblooms.com/product/dwarf-variegated-euony... I did find a shrub type ivy, Hedera helix 'arborea', but the variegation is much different. Would appear the tags may have gotten misplaced. http://www.sunnyborder.com/pages/plant.php?id=4292 This message was edited Nov 3, 2009 10:14 AM Malus2006 Coon Rapids, MN (Zone 4a) November 3, 2009 06:00 PM Post #7238292 There is some common plain green ivy around the bottom of the shrub. arborea is pretty small only two feet tall compare to Euonymous fortunei. nifty413 North Central, TX (Zone 8a) November 3, 2009 07:00 PM Post #7238522 It looks somewhat similar to Hedera rhombea 'Creme de Menthe'... http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/151417/ Also, for your consideration, Hedera helix 'Buttermint'... http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/Detail/06609.ht... This message was edited Nov 3, 2009 5:07 PM lortay Navan Ireland November 5, 2009 12:08 PM Post #7244161 Thanks for all the replies, folks; they are all appreciated. Big thankyou to nifty419, they are definitely VERY close to mine. To the themoonhowl and Malus2006; it is definitely Hedera, not Euonymus (just finished flowering), but what species and cultivar is another story. nifty is close if not there. It appears to be here quite a while, so I would have thought it was an old cultivar. Maybe the label is right and it is the last one standing (!!!) themoonhowl Prairieville, LA (Zone 9a) November 5, 2009 12:33 PM Post #7244230 Good luck, Lortay. Hope you get a positive ID. lortay Navan Ireland November 25, 2009 12:14 PM Post #7308743 Just to let you know that I have not got any further on this and will wrap it up. Thanks a lot for the input.

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