Thicket creeper Parthenocissus inserta

Features

Woody vine.

Species	woody climbing plant
Living space	Cultivated areas, Dark forest, Treeline
Size	5-10 m

Description

It is from North America. The long-stemmed leaves are palmately composed of 5-7 leaflets. These are broad-lanceolate, serrated and short-stalked, 5–15 cm long. In autumn, they turn distinctly bright red. Opposite the leaves are developed overgrown tendrils with 3-8 tips. The broad clustered inflorescences consist of five-petalled flowers. The yellow-green corolla leaves are about 3 mm long, the calyx leaves have grown. The fruits are about 0.5 cm large, dark blue, round berries. Strawberries are sweet, but toxic to humans and other mammals! It can cause skin inflammation in sensitive people. It is wild and naturalized on ruderal sites, abandoned quarries, forest edges, floodplain forests. By overgrowing, it causes shading of other plants and gradually overwhelms them.