Hedera helix subsp. helix

(a) Subsp. helix View in CoL (inch H. taurica sensu Pojark. , vix Carrière): Leaves dark green, often with paler veins, mostly longer than wide, those of the non-flowering shoots usually conspicuously 5-lobed, those of the flowering shoots elliptical, rhombic or ovate, often undulate. Hairs greyish-white, less often yellowish, stellate, with (4-)6-10(-12) squarrose rays which are united only at the extreme base. Ripe fruit black, 8-10 mm in diameter. 2/i = 48. Throughout the range of the species, but rarer in the extreme south-west and south-east.