Holboellia latifolia seed
LATIN NAME: Holboellia latifolia
COMMON NAME: Blue Sausage Fruit
The blue sausage fruit is the climber with the impossible name and the fine, quiet flowers of the early spring. The vigorous, evergreen climber carries the handsome, compound leaves with the three leaflets and the small, purple-brown, fragrant flowers in the axillary clusters through the early spring, to be followed by the long, cylindrical, blue-purple fruits that give the plant its curious name. The vine is a fine, bold presence of the warm wall, the pergola and the large conservatory. It is a vine of the open, sunny to partly shaded, well-drained ground.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The blue sausage fruit is a bold, curious subject of the plant science, and the long, cylindrical fruits keep showing up in the work on the lardizabala group. The flowering and the fruiting of the climber have been looked at closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the woody climbers, the early-flowering vines and the members of the lardizabala family. The compound leaves and the vigorous habit have also made it a fine garden vine, and the blue sausage fruit is a regular subject of the work on the curious fruiting climbers of the warm world.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
The blue sausage fruit is a fine, bold vine of the warm wall and the pergola. The small, purple-brown, fragrant flowers open through the early spring, one of the fine, quiet sights of the cool end of the year, and the long, cylindrical, blue-purple fruits follow, giving the plant its curious name and a fine, bold look along the wall. The evergreen leaves hold the vine neat through the year, and it is one of the fine choices for the warm wall, the pergola and the large pot. It has been written up in the horticultural and the botanical papers for the blue fruits and the early flowers, and it is a fine, bold vine of the open, sunny to partly shaded, well-drained garden.
The blue sausage fruit is one of the curious climbers of the warm wall, and the long, cylindrical, blue-purple fruits give the plant its impossible name. The purple-brown flowers open through the early spring.
To grow the blue sausage fruit from seed, sow the small, black seeds into pots of moist, free-draining soil, in a warm, bright corner, and water gently. The seedlings thread up within a few weeks and climb steadily. With the sun or the light shade, the warmth and the well-drained ground, the purple-brown flowers will open through the early spring.
A beautiful evergreen vine with palmate, dark glossy green leaves that have 3 to 9 leaflets and racemes of small, greenish to cream (male) and pink to purple (female), deliciously scented flowers, followed by reddish to purple, irregularly oblong shaped, edible and tasty , abundant fruits. Holboellia latifolia is native to mixed forests from the Himalayas to southwestern China and is often found along streams or in moist places, between 600 and 3000 m (2000 and 9800 ft). In cultivation it is a strong grower and a fruit sought after.