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Akebia quinata |
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Fiveleaf
Akebia |
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A
vigorous, dainty, twining vine, usually with a
rather open foliage mass |
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Growing to a height of
20-40 feet |
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Plants are
polygamo-dioecious. Female flowers
are chocolate purple, 1 inch across males are
rosy purple, ⅕ inch across, both borne in the
same pendent, axillary raceme, fragrant in May. |
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Leaves are alternate, semi-evergreen, palmately
compound with 5 leaflets, each 1-3 inches long,
entire, elliptic, with a notched apex,
bluish-green in color. |
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Fall
color is nonexistent. |
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Fruit is a purple-violet, bloomy, sausage-like
pod, 2˝-4 inches long, ripening in September-October |
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