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Parthenocissus tricuspidata (Siebold & Zucc.) Planch.

Boston ivy, Boston-ivy, Boston-ivy, Boston-ivy (EN); Dreilappige Jungfernrebe (DE); Parra virgen (ES)

Climate known 54 photographs
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Summary

Parthenocissus tricuspidata is a species of flowering plant in the grape family (Vitaceae) native to eastern Asia, where it thrives in floodplain bushes, riverside woodland and moist mountain mixed forests. Although unrelated to true ivy, it is commonly known as Boston ivy, grape ivy, Japanese ivy, and also as Japanese creeper, and by the name woodbine.

Text from Wikipedia, “Parthenocissus tricuspidata”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Parthenocissus

Parthenocissus, is a genus of tendril climbing plants in the grape family, Vitaceae. It contains about 12 species native to the Himalaya, eastern Asia and North America. Several are grown for ornamental use, notably P. henryana, P. quinquefolia and P. tricuspidata.

Text from Wikipedia, “Parthenocissus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Vitaceae
Described by
(Siebold & Zucc.) Planch.
Native to
Primorye, Manchuria, China North-Central +5
Wild records
685 in range· 305 open

At a glance

Warmest month
28°C
Aug, mean day; nights 22 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1517mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jul 293 mm (CHELSA)
Light
15–36DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (May to September at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1517 mm a year, wettest July at 293 mm, driest December at 34 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 36 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -3.6 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as ? purpurea Nobbe; Acer nikoense (Miq.) Maxim.; Ampelopsis haponica Anon.; Ampelopsis lowii H.Low; Ampelopsis lowii H.Low ex H.P. and 37 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to September in the northern hemisphere (May to September at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1085 mm of 1517 mm) falls in May to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 22.0 °C against a yearly mean of 13.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to March.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1517 mm a year, wettest July at 293 mm, driest December at 34 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1517 mm a year at the habitat, 1085 mm of it May to September. Wettest month July at 293 mm, driest December at 34 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1153 mm to 2767 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 36 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 36 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 13, the highest 90th-percentile month 37).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -3.6 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -3.6 °C, the absolute minimum -7.5 °C, about 70 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.8 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -1.9 °C in January (across the envelope cells -9.9 °C to 9.1 °C), warmest day 27.9 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -3.6 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 56 to 67% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 5 °C in Jan to 28 °C in Aug; mean night from -2 °C in Jan to 22 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1517 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 563 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -7.5 °C and the 99th-percentile day 35.8 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-20°-10°10°20°30°40°frost35.8° 99th-percentile day (undated)-7.5° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 15–36RH 56–67 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 563 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C5 / -0–166 / 3–1711 / 7–2017 / 13–2321 / 17–2625 / 21–2927 / 24–3028 / 26–3024 / 22–2719 / 17–2413 / 9–218 / 3–17
Night °C-2 / -10–9-1 / -7–113 / -2–138 / 4–1613 / 10–1918 / 15–2222 / 19–2422 / 19–2518 / 14–2212 / 7–186 / -0–141 / -6–11
Rain mm39 / 20–9749 / 24–14178 / 44–184106 / 65–203131 / 89–284190 / 128–382293 / 164–429278 / 149–399193 / 113–33669 / 46–20057 / 38–13234 / 19–84
DLI17 / 14–1922 / 19–2429 / 24–3034 / 29–3636 / 31–3734 / 29–3631 / 27–3631 / 28–3427 / 24–2924 / 20–2517 / 16–2015 / 13–18
RH %57 / 53–6356 / 54–6457 / 55–6358 / 54–6461 / 56–6564 / 59–6967 / 63–7266 / 63–6963 / 61–6759 / 57–6458 / 55–6357 / 54–62

Each figure is the median across the 563 grid cells holding the 666 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1078:6397 (36.075, 139.875). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -7.5 °C, 1st-percentile night -3.6 °C, 99th-percentile day 35.8 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 563 distinct grid cells holding the 666 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1078:6397 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 36.00_140.000, lapse-corrected -17 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 16 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativePrimorye, Manchuria, China North-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam· introduced: Great Britain, Ireland, Belgium, Germany, Baleares, France, Sardegna, Spain, Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, Belarus, Canary Is., Burundi, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Ontario, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, District of Columbia
Kew's description“liana” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker36.937, 127.305 · in the densest population, 237 records (35% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 685 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 305 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1075 km away. 1059 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 19 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 685 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Sandy Wolkenberg, some rights reserved (CC BY) (8).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Parthenocissus tricuspidata, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

EXPERIMENTAL INDUCTION OF VASCULAR TISSUES IN CALLUS OF ANGIOSPERMS
Ralph H. Wetmore, John P. Rier (1963) · American Journal of Botany
Studies on the Growth in Culture of Plant Cells: I. GROWTH PATTERNS IN BATCH PROPAGATED SUSPENSION CULTURES
G.G. Henshaw, K. K. Jha, Ashiv Mehta, D. JOAN SHADESHAFT (1966) · Journal of Experimental Botany
Environmentally Benign Synthesis Methods of Zero-Valent Iron Nanoparticles
Gábor Kozma, Andrea Rónavári, Zoltán Kónya, Ákos Kukovecz (2015) · ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
A High-Quality Grapevine Downy Mildew Genome Assembly Reveals Rapidly Evolving and Lineage-Specific Putative Host Adaptation Genes
Yann Dussert, Isabelle D. Mazet, Carole Couture, Jérôme Gouzy (2019) · Genome Biology and Evolution
Experimental Induction of Vascular Tissues in Callus of Angiosperms
Ralph H. Wetmore, John P. Rier (1963) · American Journal of Botany
Detecting solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence from field radiance spectra based on the Fraunhofer line principle
Liangyun Liu, Yongjiang Zhang, Jihua Wang, Chunjiang Zhao (2005) · IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Two New Antioxidant Stilbene Dimers, Parthenostilbenins A and B from Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Hyoung Ja Kim, Muhammad Saleem, Seon Hee Seo, Changbae Jin (2005) · Planta Medica
DISTRIBUTION OF TARTARIC ACID IN THE LEAVES OF CERTAIN ANGIOSPERMS
Helen A. Stafford (1959) · American Journal of Botany
Antiplasmodial activity of novel stilbene derivatives isolated from Parthenocissus tricuspidata from South Korea
Il Hong Son, Ill‐Min Chung, Sun‐Joo Lee, Hyung‐In Moon (2007) · Parasitology Research
Chemical characterization and antioxidant activities of polysaccharides isolated from the stems of Parthenocissus tricuspidata
Xiaoxia Liang, Yingying Gao, Wenbo Fei, Yuanfeng Zou (2018) · International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Antimalarial Activity of a New Stilbene Glycoside from Parthenocissus tricuspidata in Mice
Won‐Hwan Park, Sung Jae Lee, Hyung‐In Moon (2008) · Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Parthenocissus 2 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
gbif.species answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.synonyms answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
gbif.vernacular answeredcarried from build of 2026-09-19 (offline re-derivation; the backbone was not asked)
wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 169 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.