| Akebia trifoliata is a deciduous climbing plant with
gray-black-brown barks in fields and mountains. Leaves are
alternate, of a ternate compound leaf with a 2-14cm-long petiole.
Its leaflets are ovate, 2-6cm in length, 1.5-4cm in width, the tip
somewhat cave in, and the bases round, with large undulate
serrations on the margins. Flowers are monoecious; inflorescences
droop down from leaf axils in which dark purple flowers come. The
flowers lack petals, so sepals look like petals. The inflorescences
set 10 or more male flowers on the tips and females, 1-3 in number,
at the bases. Fruit (sap fruit), oblong, around 10cm long, ripen in
purple to split open in September. Bloom time: April-May. |
Wild plants in and around Shimane
島根とその周辺の野生植物
