For other uses, see Ivy . "Hedera" redirects here. In typography, it is the name of a horticultural dingbat shaped like an ivy leaf.Hedera (English name ivy, plural ivies) is a genus of 15 species of climbing or ground-creeping evergreen woody plants in the family Araliaceae, native to the Atlantic Islands, western, central and southern Europe, northwestern Africa and across central-southern Asia east to Japan. On suitable surfaces (trees and rock faces), they are able to climb to at least 25?30