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Contents 1 Climbers and grouncovers 2 Growing 3 Name 4 Science Fair Project 5 Question - vine vs. liana

[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)

I'm going to challenge the British English/North American English distinction asserted in this article unless it can be supported a bit more authoritatively. While I'm not familiar with the British usage of the word, on checking a rather old edition of Encyclopedia Britannica in my department library, it gives the broad (so-called "North American") definition of "vine" and does not restrict the usage of the word to Vitaceae at all. MrDarwin (talk) 21:45, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Science Fair Project

I was thinking of doing a science project on vines. "Do you vines have eyes?" is my question. Do vines know where they are going when they reach out and attach themselves to near by objects? Please give me any comments or answers to my question. Lilcocomojoe579 16:23, 8 July 2007 (UTC)lilcocomojoe579

[edit] Question - vine vs. liana

Is there any difference between "Liana" and "Vine" ??? Can you give me examples of vines and lianas? Thanks, cs:Wikipedista:Vojtech.dostal —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.20.74.230 (talk) 18:17, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

A liana is a woody climber, whereas a vine/climber does not necessarily need to have woody tissue. Lianas are often also called vines, but the reverse is not always true. Djlayton4 | talk | contribs 00:14, 12 December 2007 (UTC)