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middle leaflet has a long petiole. Poison Ivy, like the creeper, flares into flame in autumn.
It’s the tendrils at the tips of the branches of Virginia Creeper that fascinate me. They reward a careful inspection. A tendril is like a fine and delicate wire of green; they are extremely sensitive to contact. Once a tendril encounters anything that will help the plant climb upward to its place in the sun, it forms a tight coil. Tendrils on the creeper are modified branches and twine spirally from right to left, “left-handed,” in other words.
In the Virginia Creeper, tendrils end in little adhesive discs that attach themselves to whatever the plant is climbing on and become aerial rootlets.
In August, I don’t think of new green in plants; leaves have dulled I by now and lack the vitality of newness I associate with spring. Creepers are always growing and tendrils are reaching out to new places to climb and entwine. | These new branches proCh duce new, pale green leaves y''^ that are in marked contrast to BA the larger and older, deep yQ) green leaves produced early in \ the season.
I am grateful to the Virginia
I Creeper for this; a later summer reminder of spring just passed or, even better, a promise of the one to come.
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