Pot Size: 2 litre (deep) Price: £25.00 Description: A deciduous hairless herbaceous twining climber arising from a rhizomatous rootstock. Bearing delicate textured characteristic almost peltate leaves (umbrella-like), that evolve from near orbicular to 9-shallowly lobed on slender stems 3-5m long. Bearing axillary panicles of either male or female flowers from June-July in their upper reaches when large enough, consisting of up to 20 yellow-green flowers. Which mature to orbicular purple-black fruit on the female plants bearing the characteristic crescent-shaped seed, which has earnt its vernacular name of Moon Seed. A very hardy plant originally collected in the Russian Far East, by the botanists we have been working with in Moscow. Easily grown in any fertile drained soil in sun or shade, hardy to at least -30C.
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