Plants
Climbers & Mistletoes
Climbers
Sighting 4668583

Hedera sp. (helix or hibernica)

Ivy at Canberra, ACT

Hedera sp. (helix or hibernica) at Canberra, ACT - 13 May 2025 12:59 PM
Hedera sp. (helix or hibernica) at Canberra, ACT - 13 May 2025 12:59 PM
Hedera sp. (helix or hibernica) at Canberra, ACT - 13 May 2025 12:59 PM
Hedera sp. (helix or hibernica) at Canberra, ACT - 13 May 2025 12:59 PM
Request use of media

Identification history

Hedera sp. (helix or hibernica) 14 May 2025 MichaelMulvaney
Hedera helix 14 May 2025 CarbonAI
Hedera sp. (helix or hibernica) 14 May 2025 rhyshardy

Identify this sighting

Please Login or Register to identify this sighting.

User's notes

Planted by ACT govt (TCCS) contractor despite being a declared pest species. Reported via fixmystreet and was told no action taken because its what the contractor chose!

4 comments

MichaelMulvaney wrote:
   14 May 2025
Thanks Rhys - one that we will raise with ACT Weeds Working Group @HarleyB
rhyshardy wrote:
   14 May 2025
Appreciate it @MichaelMulvaney
HarleyB wrote:
   14 May 2025
@MichaelMulvaney A few things with this. I don't have any information about the Fix my Street report. We would need to establish the exact species, as only H. helix is a Prohibited plant, not H. hibernica.
Also the New Biosecurity legislation is coming into effect very soon. This will give us much more direct ways to deal with breaches that the current legislation does not. Hopefully things will be much more straight forward when dealing with these situations in the future.

If I can find a contact in TCCS I will see if I can't just remove the plants anyhow.
MichaelMulvaney wrote:
   14 May 2025
Thanks Harley - it appears that there has been a mis-identification of much of the Hedera that is weedy across S-E-Australia. Certainly Hedera hibernica is the one most commonly found in ACT's woodland - I think the Department needs to address the new taxonomic information see Hedera sp. (helix or hibernica)

Please Login or Register to comment.

Location information

Sighting information

Species information

Record quality

  • Images or audio
  • More than one media file
  • Verified by an expert moderator
  • Nearby sighting(s) of same species
  • GPS evidence of location
  • Description
  • Additional attributes
833,191 sightings of 22,969 species from 14,456 members
CCA 3.0 | privacy
NatureMapr is developed by at3am IT Pty Ltd and is proudly Australian made