2024年9月26日 · Chocolate vine (Akebia quinata) has fragrant flowers that smell like chocolate. Learn to care for this unique plant.

Akebia quinata –commonly known as chocolate vine, five-leaf chocolate vine, [1] or five-leaf akebia, is a shrub that is native to Japan, China and Korea, commonly used as an ornamental / edible plant in the United States and Europe. [2]

2022年12月29日 · Chocolate vine (Akebia quinata), also known as five leaf akebia, is a highly fragrant, vanilla scented vine that is hardy in USDA zones 4 through 9. This deciduous semi-evergreen plant reaches its mature height of 15 to 20 feet (4.5-6 m.) rapidly and produces beautiful lilac flowers from May through June.

Vigorously spreading, Akebia quinata (Chocolate Vine) is a dainty semi-evergreen, twining, woody vine with dangling racemes of small, wine-red flowers with a spicy, chocolate fragrance in spring. The blooms stand out against the bright green foliage of elliptic leaflets which becomes purple flushed in cold weather.

2024年1月31日 · Akebia quinata produces glossy dark green oval-shaped leaves that grow in clusters of five. Plants have attractive blooms that carry a light chocolate scent. The aromatic flowers are replaced by four inch (10 cm) fruit pods containing small …

Chocolate Vine is a light feeder and doesn't require supplemental flower fertilizer. However, you can provide trace nutrients for vines growing in poor soil by mulching with compost or well-rotted manure. Akebia quinata will climb on supports or scramble up to 40 feet (12 m).

Chocolate vine or five-leaf akebia is a deciduous to semi-evergreen twining woody vine in the Lardizabalaceae family. The genus name Akebia comes from the Japanese word for twining and qunitata is Latin for five which refers to the five parted compound leaves.

Native to East Asia, the chocolate vine is grown as an ornamental throughout temperate parts of the world. Extracts from the chocolate vine are being explored as a potential treatment for diabetes, obesity and kidney disease.

Akebia quinata. chocolate vine. Semi-evergreen climber about 10m tall, with rounded dark green leaves, blue-green below, composed of five leaflets and tinted purple in winter. Fragrant reddish-purple flowers, in racemes 12cm long, produced in early spring are sometimes followed by purple sausage-shaped fruits to 10cm in length

Akebia quinata (Houttuyn) Decaisne: Chocolate vine or five-leaf akebia: China, Korea and Japan: Akebia trifoliata (Thunberg) Koidzumi: Three-leaf akebia: China, Korea and Japan: Hybrids ... Akebia quinata is a minor invasive species in the majority of the East Coast and was introduced in 1845 as an ornamental plant. [12]