DESCRIPTION:

NAME: Chocolate Vine

OTHER COMMON NAMES: Threeleaf Akebia / Wild Banana

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Akebia Trifoliata

COLOR: Red-Brown Flowers

PLANT SEEDS: Outdoors after frost / Cold Stratify / Indoors weeks before last frost

BLOOM TIME: Mid Spring (April)

HARDINESS ZONE: 4 - 8

PLANT HEIGHT: 4 - 6'

PLANT SPACING: 9 - 12"

LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun - Part Shade

SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average

QUANTITY: 15 Seeds

OTHER: The Chocolate Vine is a fast growing ornamental with edible fruit. The beautiful flowers are fragrant with a sweet light chocolate scent! The fruit pods are 5" long & look like bluish-purple cucumbers! The pulp of the fruit is eaten, & can be enjoyed raw, dried, or used to make juice, wine, or jelly. The pulp is gelatinous & has a sweet delicate tropical flavor, slightly similar to coconut milk. These lovely plants can grow in full shade, & will tolerate rocky, sandy, or clay soil. The Chocolate Vine’s leaves are evergreen in warmer climates. The leaves are used to make a tea, & the stems are used for basket weaving.

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