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Certain plants always grow as vines, while a few grow as vines only part of the time. For instance, Poison ivy and Bittersweet can grow as low shrubs when support is not available, but will become vines when support is available.
A vine is a growth form based on long, flexible stems. This has two purposes. A vine may use rock exposures, other plants, or other supports for growth rather than investing energy in a lot of supportive tissue, enabling the plant to reach sunlight with a minimum investment of energy. This has been a highly-successful growth form for plants such as Kudzu and Japanese honeysuckle, both of which are invasive exotics in parts of North America. Conversely, there are some tropical vines that develop skototropism and grow away from the light, a type of negative phototropism.
The vine growth form may also enable plants to colonize large areas quickly, even without climbing high. This is the case with Periwinkle and Ground-ivy .
Most vines are flowering plants. These may be divided into woody vines, such as Wisteria, Kiwifruit, and Common ivy, and nonwoody vines, such as Ground-ivy. Generally, climbers are always woody vines, while nonwoody or herbaceous vines are not climbers but rather groundcovers.
One particular group of plants has a growth form that is intermediate between shrubs and vines. This is the rose family, including roses, blackberriesThis article is about the fruit. For other uses see blackberry (disambiguation Rubus fruticosus Common Blackberry and hundreds more microspecies (the subgenus also includes the dewberries) The blackberry is a widespread and well known shrub; a bramble fru, and raspberriesFor the sound that is sometimes referred to as a "raspberry", see Bronx cheer. Rubus idaeus The Raspberry or Red Raspberry Rubus idaeus is a plant that produces a tart, sweet, red composite fruit (not a true berry) in late summer or early autumn. The frui, all of which grow with semi-vining canes.
One odd group of vining plants is the fern genus Lygodium, called climbing fernsLygodium the Climbing Ferns Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Division: Pterophyta Class: Pteridopsida Order: Schizeales Family: Lygodiaceae Genus Lygodium Species Lygodium palmatum American climbing fern Lygodium japonicum Japanese climbing fern. Here, the plant's stem does not climb, but rather the fronds (leaves) do. The fronds unroll from the tip, and theoretically never stop growing. In the meantime, they can form thickets as they unroll over other plants, rockfaces, and fences.
Many of the clubmosses are also groundcover vines.
For the Australian garage rockGarage rock was a simple, raw form of rock and roll created by a number of American bands in the mid- 1960s. Inspired by British Invasion bands like The Beatles, The Kinks, and The Rolling Stones, these mostly midwestern American groups played a variation band, see the VinesThe Vines are an Australian garage rock band that emerged along with a new breed of alternative rockers such as The Strokes, The Hives and The White Stripes in 2002 (see 2002 in music). Garage days The original version of the Vines met in suburban Sydney.
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