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Akebia x pentaphylla

Botanic Family

Lardizabalaceae

Author

(Makino) Makino

Propagation

C.L.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Common Names

• Goyō-akebi (Japan)
• Kuwazome-akebi (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Honshu - Japan

Natural Habitats

• Natural & cultivated hybrid

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Vigorous twining shrub. Leaves with 4-7 leaflets to 107mm x 60mm. Axillary racemes to 130mm long, faintly fragrant 40mm purple-brown flowers, staminate flowers with bracts & 3 sepals reddish to black purple to 4.5mm long, female flowers with bracts & 3-4 reddish or blackish-purple sepals to 11mm long. Lleathery fruit to 100mm long becoming rosy purple with white dots.

Further References

• Krussmann 1976
• Johns 1979
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• The Plant List 2
• JAA
• FOJ
• Kew