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Alba

Variety of Chocolate vine · Akebia quinata
Pure-white flowering form, often producing pale, whitish-bloomed pods.
Also known as: f. alba
Edible value7Medicinal value6Other uses5
🇯🇵 Japan

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Parentage
weissblütige Form von Akebia quinata
Pollination
self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
Fruit weight
80 g

Flowering & harvest

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Flowering
Fruit harvest

Given in thirds of a month (early / mid / late) for the northern hemisphere in a temperate climate; altitude and season shift them.

Description

Fruit

With a pollinator forms pale-toned pods; pulp sweet and jelly-like.

Growth

Vigorous, semi-evergreen twiner like the species.

Notes

Botanical white-flowered form, common in gardens. Self-sterile: needs a second clone.

Site, soil, hardiness and growth follow the species Chocolate vine unless the variety states otherwise. Will it grow where you live? → Check your site on the species page

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