Chocolate Vine

Did you know

• The flowers emit a subtle chocolate or vanilla fragrance, most noticeable on warm spring evenings.
• The plant produces unusual sausage-shaped purple fruits that split open when ripe, revealing sweet white edible pulp.
• In Japan, the woody stems are woven into baskets, and the young shoots are eaten as a spring vegetable.
• It needs cross-pollination from a genetically different plant to produce fruit, so a single vine rarely bears fruit.
• Chocolate Vine can become highly invasive in the eastern United States, smothering native vegetation if not controlled.

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Uses

• arbor and trellis coverage
• edible fruit