Chocolate vine
Akebia quinata (Thunb. ex Houtt.) Decne.
- light
- Any light
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 11 m
- wide
- —
Lardizabalaceae
Also called Five-leaf Akebia, Fiveleaf Akebia
Formerly Akebia micrantha, Rajania quinata
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- LianaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. China to C. & S. JapanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Sun or shadeRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 11 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 10–10 m; Plants For A Future 12–12 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- Yellow, red, purple, green, brownRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Japanese
- アケビ
- Chinese
- 木通, 五叶木通, 八月札
- German
- Akebie
- Finnish
- kastanjaköynnös, Rinneakebia
- French
- Akébie à cinq feuilles
- Simplified Chinese
- 丁年藤, 丁翁, 万年藤
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Akebia quinata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.