Virginia Creeper (Ampelopsis [Parthenocissus] quinquefolia), an American vine, known also as American Ivy, Woodbine, &c., often grown on the fronts of houses in Britain and continental Europe as an ornamental creeper. The tendrils terminate in a peculiar kind of sucker, and the autumnal foliage is rich in varied colour of light and dark green, brown, red, and yellow.
Virginia Creeper
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 493
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