Look what we found...

 on our Akebia quinata today!  None of us has seen this fruiting before
this year.
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb345/HillHouseNursery/P1040452.jpg
http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb345/HillHouseNursery/P1040453.jpg
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 On 15/09/2011 19:03, Sacha wrote:

Remarkable!  I have always assumed that there was one clone in the
country and it was self-infertile.  I wonder if someone has one grown
from seed somewhere near to you and yours has been visited by a bee
which visited the other one.

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Jeff

 

We have a younger, white one on a pillar not far from that one.  I
don't know if that's got anything to do with it.  That had one tiny  
fruit on it which has disappeared, much to our annoyance.  We suspect a
squirrel who thought it was a nut!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon

 

I assume that's a plum-like fruit that's split open. How big are they?
Is that a single seed (like a plum stone) or multiple seeds inside?
Are you going to try sowing it/them?

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Chris

Gardening in West Cornwall overlooking the sea.
Mild, but very exposed to salt gales

 

The fruits are of different sizes.  The one that's split open is indeed
about plums size.  Others are curved and closer to those small bananas
in length but fatter.  Below the two purple ones in one of the pics is
a cluster of unripe, green fruits.  There are multiple seeds inside and
we shall certainly be sowing them!
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon