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Akebia trifoliata
Akebia trifoliata
- Botanic Family
- Lardizabalaceae
- Author
- (Thunberg) G. Koidzumi
- Propagation
- C.D.L.S.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental
Common Names
- Three-leaf Akebia
- San ye mu tong (Pinyin)
- Mitsuba-akebi (Japan)
Geographical Habitats
- Anhui
- Fujian
- SE. Gansu
- Guangdong
- W. Hebei
- S. Henan
- Hubei
- Hunan
- Jiangsu
- Jiangxi
- S. Shaanxi
- Shangdong
- Shanxi
- Sichuan
- Taiwan
- Yunnan
- Zhejiang - China
- Hokkaido
- Honshu
- Kyushu
- Shikoku - Japan
Natural Habitats
- Forest & scrub
- montane thickets & forest
- woodland
- hill thickets.
Flowering Times
- Apr-Jun (China) Spring
- Apr-May (Japan)
Fruiting Times
Monoecious woody deciduous or semi-evergreen glabrous twiner, sometimes evergreen, branches often lenticellate. Pinnate leaves with 3-4 leaflets, toothed leaflets, terminal leaflets to 103mm x 70mm. Fragrant or odourless 20mm brown-purple female flowers in axillary racemes or panicles to 160mm, female flowers with 3-6 reddish-purple sepals to 15mm long, male flowers smaller light purple with bracts, 3 reddish-purple sepals to 3mm long. Fruit greyish-white to blue or purplish berry with small white dots to 150mm long.
Fruit edible (tasty). Medicinal uses,
Further References
- Rehder 1934
- Bean 1950
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Krussmann 1976
- Johns 1979
- Huxley 1992
- Nicholls 1995
- FOC
- GWC 1997
- Chudian 2001
- Botanicus
- The Plant List 2
- JAA
- FOJ
- Kew