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Besides Virginia creeper, we also have lots of a close relative, Boston ivy, here on the buildings of Acadia Univ. And I know a location in downtown Wolfville where a more exotic type of creeping ivy is growing in an opening bwtween buildings, east of the Bank of Montreal. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: Stephen Shaw <srshaw@dal.ca> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 23:59:46 -0300 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: [NatureNS] Nova Scotian ivy question Hi all, A biologist who's briefly visiting from UK and who I mentioned here earlier has just asked me if there is any native ivy in Nova Scotia. We have had considerable success in collecting locally several species of jumping bugs (Homoptera -- treehoppers, leafhoppers, froghoppers -- thanks Chris and others for earlier info on these). He's also interested in a particular group that in UK lives exclusively on the dark green creeping ivy that is common climbing up walls and buildings there (I don't know the species name). He's interested in the phenomenal jump mechanism of this varied group of jumpers, which has something in common with the operation of a crossbow. Does anyone have any ideas to offer on ivy? If so, could you recommend a location for ivy in or fairly near Halifax (say as far as Wolfville) that we could visit? Alternatively, presumably there will be some stands of introduced UK ivy over here as well. I know where to find some Virginia Creeper, but which I suspect may not be closely related. Any info would be welcome even if it is negative on the presence of "ivy". He is here only for another 10 days. Steve
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