How to Care Stauntonia

Sixleaves stauntonvine is a climbing vine with broad, heart-shaped leaves that thrive in warm, humid environments. Its creamy white to pale purple flowers possess a delicate, sweet fragrance, attracting pollinators. In autumn, sixleaves stauntonvine bears oblong purplish-black fruit, which stands out against its dense, lush foliage. Adapted to forest understories, sixleaves stauntonvine scales other vegetation, receiving dappled sunlight conducive to its growth.

Stauntonia latifolia is a genus of flowering plant in the Lardizabalaceae family.

Stauntonia obovata is a perennial vine with large, leathery leaves that have a distinctive obovate shape, meaning they are broader at the tip. The plant's creamy-white, bell-shaped flowers emit a sweet fragrance, attracting pollinators to its understated beauty. This climbing plant thrives under the canopy of forests, using its tendrils to grasp and ascend through the vegetation, seeking sunlight.

A palm-shaped compound leaf consisting of 3 to 7 leaflets with a handle. The leaflets are thick leather dark green and glossy and the back side is slightly pale. On the back side you can see the characteristic reticulated veins. The flowers are male and female scented and the corolla is pale yellow and elongated like a peeled banana peel which is different from the akebi flower. In fall 5 to 7 cm fruits ripen in magenta. This fruit resembles the same family of akebi but the pericarp is thinner and softer than akebi and does not tear along the percutaneous suture. Inside the pericarp is a very hard layer of milky white. Inside there are many small black seeds with translucent pulp derived from the placenta filled with sweet juice. The flesh is also sweet but firmly attached to the seeds making it difficult to separate the seeds.

Dead man's fingers are deciduous shrubs or small trees growing to 5 to 8 m tall with trunks up to 20 cm in diameter. The leaves are pinnate, 60 to 90 cm long, with up to 25 leaflets each up to 15 cm long and 10 cm broad. Each flower is 3 to 6 cm wide with greenish-yellow sepals and no petals. The fruit is a soft greenish-yellow to blue-black pod-like follicle up to 10 cm long and 3 cm diameter. It contains a transparent, glutinous, jelly-like pulp containing numerous (Usually around 40) flat black seeds about 1 cm wide. It is native to eastern Asia, from China west to Nepal and south to Myanmar. The genus consists of one or two species, depending on taxonomic opinion.

Stauntonia is a genus of flowering plant in the Lardizabalaceae family.

Chocolate vine are well known in Japanese literature, where they are mainly used to evoke the feeling of the countryside. Some species provide pulpy fruit with sweet white flesh, similar to that of dragonfruit. The twining vines and attractive flowers make them popular as ornamentals as well.

Sinofranchetia is a genus of flowering plant in the Lardizabalaceae family. It contains a single species.