Akebia Quinata: An Aggressive Vine That Is Wonderful for Weaving Into Baskets
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Akebia quinata of the Lardizabalaceae family is an amazing vine to harvest for weaving into baskets, while helping to control it. Do not plant this unless you want crazy vines taking over your world (which you may want if you are a basket maker…?).
Harvest the stems that run below (stolons) and above the ground as well as the deeper roots. We try to gather as much of this as we can to control its spread and to use for weaving.
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A perennial vine with five palmate leaflets with an alternate leaf arrangement. Has small dark purple flowers. Fruit is sausage-shaped, whitish tinged with violet to 4” long. Fruit splits open revealing edible white flesh and numerous small black seeds. Native to China, Korea and Japan, but has escaped cultivation and naturalized in parts of the eastern U.S.
Here I hold a basket made by KATIE GROVE, Hudson Valley artist and basket maker extraordinaire. This basket made of Akebia, has willow handles and strands of elm, tulip poplar, strawberry vine and sweet grass. Thank you Katie!
To learn more about Katie find her at: www.katiegrove... Instagram: @katiegrovestudios / katelyn.grove
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I do have one akebia plant but didn't know that it was good to make baskets. That is a wonderful basket.🧡
Cool that you have one akebia, but keep it in check; and yes make baskets with it!
Beautiful basket! Love all you teach us!
Thank you, Kathleen, for your comment!
I loved this video, thank you for sharing!
Hello Helene, thank you for your comment and for appreciating!
In the Netherlands I have a little home fruit forest in front and back garden and collect 100 kg of fruits a year. I am growing Akebia Quinata and Akebia Quinata Silverbells, which cross pollinate and produce pods with inside sweet jelly and black seeds. You need two species of Akebia, else they don't produce fruits. Depending on the species the pods are green, pinkish and purple in colour. When spontaneously breaking open the fruit is ripe and you harvest the open pods. You can eat the jelly by sucking the jelly from the black seeds, that are not really edible. If you chew on the black seeds you get a sour throat. Discard the black seeds and do not put them on the compost heap, as your whole garden will be taken over. The jelly inside the pods, I can separate from the seeds in a sieve and cook the jelly to add to other available berries and grapes which ripen in august, to make jam. The pods are not really edible fresh. The pods I can clean and cut up to fry for a few minutes and add to meat and vegetable mixes. The pods are without much taste, just as soybeans are without much taste. I am allergic to soybeans, so the pods can replace the soybeans. The stalks of Akebia come in various thicknesses and can also provide thicker wicker materials as in the video, where willow stalks are used. I may try out making little baskets of my two Akebia plants when they grow bigger and threaten to take over the garden. Just like grapes, blackberry and poison ivy, Akebia Quinata must be controlled by drastically pruning or soon it will cover your house and garden. Not a plant for lazy gardeners. Do not discard the seeds in the wild. They only may kill the native flora and not even produce fruits, because they must be cross pollinated. I combine Akebia Quinata with other rampant growing plants like grapevines, ivy, blackberries and fruit trees. The leaves can be used for making tea after drying.
Thank you, Francis, for your extensive and informative comment! Love that you have a fruit forest garden in your little home!
This is a great idea for when I eventually cut back my vines when they're getting too long! Thanks for posting this video :)
Welcome. And enjoy weaving your Akebia.
That is an incredibly beautiful basket. Thanks for sharing about this plant. It is the first time I have heard of it. In Western NC we have "invasive" vines everywhere. Perhaps this "basket making" vine is one of them.
Thank you for your comment. I wonder if you have akebia in NC....?
Do rabbits and chickens eat the leaves? Maybe that way I can help keep it in check?
Good question, and don't have any experience with this. If you find out anymore, let us know.
I have a ton of Autumn Clematis. It has excellent nesting material properties for my chickens.... it's very pliable and it doesn't break down easily when wrapped into the bedding for them. It might make good basket material... I haven't tried.
Thanks for you comment. Would be interesting to try Autumn Clematis for baskets!
Our autumn clematis is majestic here in Massachusetts. Fragrant with white flowers.
Wow that basket is gorgeous, makes me want to find some akebia (and never ever plant it haha). Did you plant it for the specific purpose of basket making?
We planted it for its cool strange fruits, but then learned about its weaving talents. Thanks!
My akebia vine sends out shoots 40ft on the top of the dirt under our house, so we have to pull them back now and again.
Wow! I believe it. Akebia is a crazy strong grower. Perhaps you, or someone you know, would enjoy making baskets with it.
I tried that this spring but none of the seeds germinated after several months of cold treatment.
I don't know about germinating Akeblia seeds. If you'd like to grow this (proceed with caution, it's a serious spreader) and I suggest dividing off a small part of the plant, or a running rooting shoot.
Comprada en Amazon. Muy cara y nunca germinaron...
Thanks, you tried to grow this from seed? Not sure where you are, but it can become very invasive! And if you did want to grow it, best to get a root division (they are prolific).