Flowers:
Purple (Interesting polygamo-monoecious flowers, dark brownish-purple pistillate flowers and rose-purple staminate flowers; early spring)
Foliage:
Purple (Purple tinged emerging leaves); Blue (Blue-green summer foliage; no appreciable fall color)
Fruit:
Purple (Bloomy pale pinkish-purple, fat pods (2.25-4" long) with black seeds in a dull white pulp; early fall)
Soil:
Tolerates wet and dry soils
Range:
Central China to Korea, Japan
Diagnostic Characteristics:
The palmately compound leaves are alternate with 5 obovate leaflets, each 1-3" long. Stems are glabrous and slender with numerous lenticels. Akebia quinata is polygamo-monoecious, meaning male, female, and perfect flowers can all be found on the same plant. Grows by twining.
