NYBG EcoQuest February 2018 – Week Two
HUNT FOR HEDERA
February 1–14
Come to the New York City EcoFlora Volunteer Kickoff. A presentation describing the EcoFlora and EcoQuests will be followed by demonstrations, question and answer session, up-coming events, prizes and refreshments. Keep those Hedera observations coming. Your sightings are helping managers pinpoint problem areas throughout the City.
Observations: 285
Observers: @elizajsyh, 138; @dskacc, 41; @susanhewitt, 33; @danielatha, 21; @plnthunter22, 9.
Species: 2
Places: Manhattan, 236; Bronx, 31; Staten Island, 6; Queens, 8; Brooklyn, 4.
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With the Hedera survey, it is hard to determine which plants are spontaneous, and which were planted, albeit long ago. I suspect that many of the plants that are in old, poorly cared-for tree pits, may originally have been planted there.
However, last year a seedling of a wild-type ivy popped up in the garden outside my building. I assume that grew from a seed that was dropped there by a bird who had eaten an ivy berry. I certainly did not plant it. I covered the area with mulch a month ago, but if and when it grows through the mulch, I will photograph it.
Hi Susan,
Interesting about the new plant in front of your building. It would be interesting to know what the germination rate is here. I think you are right about the plants in tree pits and garden settings. They were probably planted long ago and have persisted and spread. I have found several sites in what are natural areas now, but were probably once homesites or gardens.
I agree with you about sites that were once homesites or gardens. I think that ivy can also flourish in places where it was thrown away as trash along with other lease viable garden trash.
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