Akebia quinata, chocolate wine, common climber in the west, although you need two clones to get fruits. The fruits themselves are sweet but full of seeds and very insipid, think a slimier dragonfruit…
MercifulWombat
Whoops, please ignore the text at the top! This screenshot is from Pom Poko, a non-Miyazaki Ghibli film from the 90s about magical Tanuki struggling to survive during rapid urban expansion of the post war midd 20th century.
This fruit is ripe in late summer, growing on a vine that climbs other plants. Edible to tanuki and probably humans as well? Growing outside of Tokyo in a rural/semi-wild hilly area.
SomeDumbGamer
Chocolate vine. It’s a native East Asian plant. Invasive in the southern US.
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Akebia
Akebia quinata, chocolate wine, common climber in the west, although you need two clones to get fruits. The fruits themselves are sweet but full of seeds and very insipid, think a slimier dragonfruit…
Whoops, please ignore the text at the top! This screenshot is from Pom Poko, a non-Miyazaki Ghibli film from the 90s about magical Tanuki struggling to survive during rapid urban expansion of the post war midd 20th century.
This fruit is ripe in late summer, growing on a vine that climbs other plants. Edible to tanuki and probably humans as well? Growing outside of Tokyo in a rural/semi-wild hilly area.
Chocolate vine. It’s a native East Asian plant. Invasive in the southern US.