It is quite common in the Canary Islands and lives in slopes rock, soil, trunks of trees especially in Laurel forests dominated by Apollonias.

The flowers of Hedera maroccana are small, greenish, gathered in large numbers in umbels, and the fruits are globular and black when ripe.

This plant has broad slightly leathery leaves, 2 to 8.5 inches long, reddish petioles and up to five juvenile leaf lobes, regular in size and shape.

Hedera maroccana arose in the cloud forest in the Mediterranean area.

The northern African and northeast Atlantic species of Hedera are closely related.