Chinese Silk Vine Periploca sepium
- Phonetic Spelling
- per-RY-ploh-kuh SERP-ee-um
- Description
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Chines silk vine is grown for its showy dark green shiny leaves that remain green until leaf drop. It has malodorous purple flowers. The fruit and sap are poisonous.
- See this plant in the following landscape:
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Attributes:
- Genus:
- Periploca
- Species:
- sepium
- Family:
- Apocynaceae
- Climbing Method:
- Twining
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Whole Plant Traits:
- Plant Type:
- Vine
- Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics:
- Deciduous
- Growth Rate:
- Rapid
- Texture:
- Coarse
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Cultural Conditions:
- Light:
- Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day)
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone:
- 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b
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Fruit:
- Fruit Color:
- Gold/Yellow
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Flowers:
- Flower Color:
- Green
- Purple/Lavender
- Flower Value To Gardener:
- Fragrant
- Flower Shape:
- Star
- Flower Description:
- Dark purple outside and greenish inside, ill scented flowers.
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Leaves:
- Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics:
- Deciduous
- Leaf Color:
- Green
- Hairs Present:
- No
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Stem:
- Stem Is Aromatic:
- No
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Landscape:
- Problems:
- Malodorous
