Liana
UBC Botanical Garden is well known for its collection of lianas (woody climbers), a growth form, more often associated with tropical forests.
Lianas are vigorous, shade tolerant, climbing species that start as seedlings on the forest floor. Many eventually surmount the surrounding vegetation, smothering or strangling individual plants in the process. Once exposed to full sunlight at the top of the canopy, lianas often flower and fruit prolifically. In the David C. Lam Asian Garden, the more vigorous climbers such as Actinidia (kiwi fruit), Vitis (grape), Wisteria and Hedera (ivy) are tolerated as long as they are not a threat to the host tree's health or liable to become weedy.
Liana
UBC Botanical Garden is well known for its collection of lianas (woody climbers), a growth form, more often associated with tropical forests.
Lianas are vigorous, shade tolerant, climbing species that start as seedlings on the forest floor. Many eventually surmount the surrounding vegetation, smothering or strangling individual plants in the process. Once exposed to full sunlight at the top of the canopy, lianas often flower and fruit prolifically. In the David C. Lam Asian Garden, the more vigorous climbers such as Actinidia (kiwi fruit), Vitis (grape), Wisteria and Hedera (ivy) are tolerated as long as they are not a threat to the host tree's health or liable to become weedy.