Akebia quinata
‘Akebia quinata’ is also known as ‘chocolate vine’ and is a sturdy, semi-evergreen climbing plant with a wide-spreading habit. The leaves are compound, five-part and palmate, the leaflets are ovate, leathery and dark green to blue-green in colour. This chocolate vine flowers in April and May with chestnut-red to chocolate-coloured, pleasantly scented flowers in pendulous […]
Many beautiful purple flowers followed by purplish-blue shoots.
They look like gherkins, but smell like chocolate.
Butterflies and insects love it!
For a perfect result, we recommend 3 plants per linear metre.
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Description
‘Akebia quinata’ is also known as ‘chocolate vine’ and is a sturdy, semi-evergreen climbing plant with a wide-spreading habit. The leaves are compound, five-part and palmate, the leaflets are ovate, leathery and dark green to blue-green in colour. This chocolate vine flowers in April and May with chestnut-red to chocolate-coloured, pleasantly scented flowers in pendulous racemes, later followed by striking gherkin-like violet-purple fruits. Akebia quinata prefers a semi-shaded position, but full sun is also possible, as long as the soil is sufficiently moist and the plant stands with its feet in the shade. The plant is also quite Hardy and once established reasonably drought tolerant.
