Purple Rain
Variety of Chocolate vine · Akebia quinata
Free-flowering selection with deep purple, vanilla-scented blooms.
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5🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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
With cross-pollination yields the characteristic violet pods holding sweet, seed-rich pulp.
Growth
Strong, fast-twining, ideal for covering trellises and arbours.
Notes
Popular trade form for its intense flower colour. Self-sterile: plant a second genotype.
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