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fiveleaf akebia

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: chocolate vine The second vine you might try growing is the fiveleaf akebia. … It can be quite vigorous, growing more than 20 feet in a year.— Chip Tynan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 22 Aug. 1991

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1914, in the meaning defined above

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