Deep Purple
Variety of Chocolate vine · Akebia quinata
Selection with especially dark, near blackish-purple flowers.
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Profile
- Parentage
- Selektion aus Akebia quinata
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 85 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Bears the typical edible violet pods when a cross-pollinator is present.
Growth
Vigorous twining, semi-evergreen, robust and tolerant of pruning.
Notes
Chosen for the darkest flower colour in the range. Self-sterile: plant a second genotype.
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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