climber layer
chocolate vine
akebia quinata
a vigorous twiner with chocolate-scented spring flowers and strange sausage-shaped pods whose translucent pulp is sweetly edible — grow two forms for fruit.
functions
food cropwildlife habitatpollinator forage
field guide
light
part shade
moisture
moderate
soil
most, well-drained
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grower's notes
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relationships — grows well with
hardy kiwiactinidia arguta→grape vinevitis vinifera→hazelcorylus avellana→comfrey (bocking 14)symphytum × uplandicum→
see chocolate vine on the relationship map →the takeaway
start a guild around chocolate vine
plant these together and the relationships on this page start working for you — feeders, protectors, and cover, layer by layer.
- climber
- chocolate vine — the anchor
- climber
- hardy kiwigrape vine
- shrub
- hazel
- herbaceous
- comfrey (bocking 14)