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Stauntonia hexaphylla

Botanic Family

Lardizabalaceae

Author

(Thunberg) Decaisne

Common Names

• Japanese Staunton Vine
• Woody Vine
• Mube (Japan)

Geographical Habitats

• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Ryukyu Islands
• Shikoku - Japan
• S. Korea

Natural Habitats

• Thickets

Flowering Times

• Apr-May (Japan)

Fruiting Times

Glabrous evergreen twining woody climber with coriaceous leaflets to 100mm x 40mm, racemes of fragrant 20mm white tinted violet flowers in axillary clusters, 70mm pinkish purple berry

Further References

• Sturtevant 1919
• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Bodkin
• Mansfeld
• FOJ
• Kew