Talk:Vine
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[edit] Climbers and grouncovers
The article has: Generally, climbers are always woody vines, while nonwoody or herbaceous vines are not climbers but rather groundcovers. This seems wrong. I'm thinking of morning glories and bindweeds, annual beans, various cucurbits... Am I missing something? Pekinensis 22:51, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Growing
I'd like to try growing ivy (or some other non-poisonous climbing plant) indoors, as a wall decoration. I need a plant that grows year round and can work with low sunlight. Can somebody reccomend me a vine or two? -Litefantastic 02:24, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Name
I just tried to clarify a bit the difference between recent North American (anything vinelike is a vine, grapes come from grapevines) and traditional/British usage (a vine is something with grapes) usage. I can't speak to Antipodean or African usage on that, though. I hope someone familiar with local usage in the tropics can expand. (The OED marks the broader sense as strictly US, but I'm pretty sure it's also Canadian, and I suspect it may be exist to some extent in other Commonwealth countries as well.) Tkinias 16:25, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
- It's quite common in British English as well. - MPF 14:49, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
