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Variegata

Variety of Chocolate vine · Akebia quinata
Variegated ornamental form with cream-and-green mottled foliage and pale mauve flowers.
Edible value7Medicinal value6Other uses5
🇯🇵 Japan

Profile

Parentage
Selektion aus 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

Sets the typical sausage-shaped purple pods only alongside a second, genetically distinct clone; sweet, jelly-like pulp.

Growth

Slightly less vigorous than the species due to reduced chlorophyll; semi-evergreen twining climber.

Notes

Grown chiefly for its foliage. Self-sterile: plant a second genotype for fruit set.

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