Chocolate vine
Akebia quinata (cream-flowered)
Genus: Akebia
Species: quinata (cream-flowered) ...
Akebia (Chocolate Vine)
Akebia are still very rare, but highly decorative and easy vines from Eastern Asia, growing in moist woods in shaded places, where they wind up trees.
Common name: Chocolate Vine (5 leaflets)
A fast growing semi-evergreen twining woody vine, with lovely, lush green rounded leaves with 5 leaflets, underside of leaves blue-green colour, tinged purple in winter.
Fiveleaf Akebia, Chocolate Vine
Light and graceful, these vines are attractive as ground covers, or growing on a fence or an arbor. Vines are deciduous, or evergreen in mild climates.
DESCRIPTION: Akebia quinata, also known as chocolate vine, is a twining woody vine in the mostly tropical Lardizabalaceae family.
Chocolate Vine - Deciduous vine. Compound 5 leaflet lvs & fragrant purplish brown blooms in late winter. Sun/Light Shade. Moderate water needs. Hardy well below 0 F.
Aphanopetalum resinosum 'Gossamer Wings' ...
White-Flowered Chocolate Vine [English]: Akebia quinata 'Shirobana'
White-Flowered Filaree [English]: Erodium macrophyllum
White-Flowered Gourd [English]: Lagenaria siceraria
White-Flowered Hawkweed [English]: Hieracium albiflorum ...
"Chocolate Vine" which has ever so slightly smaller leaves than does the Albiflorus. The flowers are purple (some say chocolaty-purple) bells that open into cupping three-pointed stars.
Akebia quinata 'Purple Bouquet' chocolate vine
perennial, easy care
created by chief cultivator
zones: 4a thru 10b ...
Akebia quinata: This semi-evergreen climber, also known as the chocolate vine, has five-lobed leaves and scented brownish-purple flowers in early spring, sometimes followed by fleshy purple fruits.
 See also: Akebia quinata, Vine, Akebia, Green, Evergreen
  
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