| Scientific Name: | Akebia quinata |
| Common Name: | chocolate vine |
| Family Name: | Lardizabalaceae |
| Origin: | S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 5: (-29 to -23 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Broadleaf evergreen, Vine or climber |
| Mature Size: | 7 - 10m x 3 - 4m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Twiggy |
| Form: | Climbing |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Arbors or trellis, Attract birds |
| Exposure: | Full sun, Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Compound, Alternate, Soft flexible, Palmate venation, Glabrous, Odd-pinnate, Leaflets stalked, Elliptic, Obovate, Ovate, Entire |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Yellow, Purple, Dark-red, Brown, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Aggregate fruit, Edible, Follicle, Blue, Purple, Aug-Sep, (Persistent) |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves alternate, palmately compound, leaflets 5, most elliptic-obovate, 4-9cm x 2-5cm wide, apex notched, emerge purple-tinged, mature to bluish-green, petiolules 6-23mm long; flowers 2-3cm wide, most purple-brown (yellow-white cvs.), spicy fragrant; aggregate of berry-like follicles (hand pollination required), blue-purple. | |