Silver Bells
Variety of Chocolate vine · Akebia quinata
Ivory-white to cream flowers with a chocolate-brown eye and a delicate fragrance.
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5🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Profile
- Parentage
- Selektion aus Akebia quinata
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 80 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Self-sterile like the species; forms the edible purple pods only with a suitable cross-pollinator.
Growth
Vigorous twining, semi-evergreen, good for pergolas and fences.
Notes
Selected for its pale, high-contrast flowers. Self-sterile: add 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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