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Amethyst Glow

Chocolate VineAkebia quinata

Amethyst Glow is a semi-evergreen cultivar of Akebia quinata, the chocolate vine, notable for its winter-purpled five-leaflet foliage and fragrant spring flowers occasionally followed by sausage-shaped purple fruit.

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Distinguishing Traits

Amethyst Glow is a semi-evergreen climber reaching about ten metres, with rounded dark green leaves made up of five leaflets that are blue-green beneath and take on a purple tint through winter. In early spring it bears fragrant purple female flowers alongside paler pinkish male flowers, both carried together in racemes twelve centimetres long. Fruit set is not guaranteed each season, but when it occurs the blooms give way to purple, sausage-shaped fruits up to ten centimetres long.

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