Ivy

Ivy is a vine which can be cut down by members. It was released along with the Woodcutting Rebalance update update on 23rd September 2009. They grow against certain walls of cities. You need woodcutting level 68 to chop this tree but you will not obtain an item by chopping it. When an ivy vine is chopped down the remains will be an ivy stump. The respawn rate is 40 seconds. Chopping grants 332.5 XP, which is the most woodcutting experience available for cutting.

It was designed to be fast xp without monetary rewards (apart from bird nests), as this "tree" does not require any trips to the bank. You can compare this to the powermining, but without the need of dropping your items.

The Sacred clay hatchet grants an additional experience amount, which totals to 665 experience per vine cut with the original experience added on. With a fully charged hatchet, a player will average about 34,000 xp in 18-20 minutes before it dissolves, which works to roughly 102k xp per hour, however 3 hatchets will be needed.

Using a dragon hatchet will grant around 25,000 experience in 20 minutes, for around 75,000 experience per hour.

Ivy takes multiple chops to cut down, like Oak, as opposed to normal Trees which will fall down after one log is removed.

Respawn Locations

 * North wall of Varrock Palace.
 * South-east outer wall of Varrock Palace.
 * North side of the north wall of Falador (A little west from Standing stones location).
 * South side of the south wall of Falador.
 * South-east of Taverley.
 * East wall of East Ardougne church.
 * North side of the north wall of Yanille.
 * South wall of Castle Wars.
 * Camelot in the back on the bank south of the maple trees.
 * North of Castle wars.

Trivia

 * The Inferno Adze does not burn Ivy, as it is not a burnable log. Thus, the Inferno Adze works as a normal Dragon hatchet would.
 * When ivy respawns, it is seen climbing up the wall, similar to growth actions of vines in real life, only sped up drastically.
 * If curious, you can watch how fast others cut by observing the ivy hitting the ground at their feet.
 * In both high detail and standard detail, the animation of a player chopping Ivy shows their axe repeatedly going through the wall.
 * While technically not a tree, Ivy is considered one because it is possible to cut them using woodcutting.
 * Ivy is the first non-tree in woodcutting that can be chopped down, excluding the light, medium and dense jungle vines.
 * When ivy was released, you did not get any bonus XP from wearing lumberjack clothes. This has now been fixed.