Not long now... Our Chocolate Vine, Akebia quinata, is just beginning to flower in our south-facing front garden. Since I wrote my blog post ten years ago we have acquired a second plant and now have flowers and fruit every year. www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2015/02/21/c... - ThreadSky

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jeremybartlett.bsky.social • 73 days ago

Not long now...

Our Chocolate Vine, Akebia quinata, is just beginning to flower in our south-facing front garden.

Since I wrote my blog post ten years ago we have acquired a second plant and now have flowers and fruit every year.

https://www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2015/02/21/chocolate-vine-akebia-quinata/

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chequertree.bsky.social•73 days ago

Are the fruits actually nice to eat? And do they really taste of chocolate?

jeremybartlett.bsky.social•72 days ago

The flowers smell of chocolate and are gorgeous. Chocolate isn't really evident in the fruit.

jeremybartlett.bsky.social•72 days ago

I think the fruits are rather disappointing. The inside has lots of seeds in a sweet pulp and the outside is fleshy but bitter. The whole fruit is edible but I found the outside far too bitter for my taste. But they look impressive and go light purple when ripe.

chequertree.bsky.social•72 days ago

I think a fair few book descriptions of these novel 'edible' fruits are somewhat optimistic! They are pretty plants though :-)

jeremybartlett.bsky.social•72 days ago

Definitely. I'd add Blue Honeysuckle and Goji Berries to that list!

chequertree.bsky.social•72 days ago

Hard agree on that, I find them both to be bordering on disgusting. I got excited about growing Blue Sausage Tree (Decaisenea), which turns out to be a rather sprawling, untidy shrub with interesting looking but insipid tasting greyish fruits.

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