Akebia Fruit

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Akebia quinata, commonly known as chocolate vine, five-leaf chocolate vine, or five-leaf akebia, is a shrub that is native to Japan, China and Korea, and invasive in the eastern United States from Georgia to Michigan to Massachusetts.In its native habitat, it is often found on hills, in hedges, on trees, along forest edges and streams, and on mountainous slopes

kebia quinata is a climbing evergreen shrub that grows to 10 m (30 ft) or more in height and has palmately compound leaves with five elliptic or obovate leaflets that are notched at the tip. The woody stems are greyish-brown with lenticels.[5] The flowers are clustered in racemes and are chocolate-scented, with three or four sepals. The fruits are sausage-shaped pods which contain edible pulp.The gelatinous placentation contains seeds surrounded with white pulp, that has a sweet flavor.

Order: Ranunculales
Family: Lardizabalaceae
Genus: Akebia