Description
Common name: Chocolate vine, five-leaf chocolate vine, or five-leaf akebia
Small chocolate-purple flowers bloom on twining deciduous steams in late spring. Flowers are often hidden by the foliage, but are quite interesting on close inspection and have a pleasant fragrance. Flowers give way to sausage-shaped, violet fruit pods (to 4” long) which split open in fall to reveal small black seeds imbedded in a whitish pulp. The whitish pulp is edible.
Size: 2.5″ Potted Plant
Height: 20.0′-40.0′
Spread: 6.0′-9.0′
Hardiness Zones: 5,6,7,9,10
Sunlight: Full Sun or Part Shade, will tolerate heavy shade
Attributes: Attracts Butterflies, Fragrant, edible fruits
Deer Resistant
