Female Kadsura. Since Kadsura vines are a dioecious species, with separate male and female plants, one rarely sees a fruiting plant within the U.S. But in Japan where this species is native, female plants are frequently seen in nurseries and garden centers. Here in the U.S. we mostly grow variegated cultivars, of which it is rare to know the sex of a particular selection. I bought a female clone from one of our familiar nurseries near Tokyo. But to get fruit, one would necessarily need a male for pollination. This we offer with our male cultivar 'King Kong.' One will get flowers sooner if a plant is kept pruned back to a smaller size and not allowed to run rampant. If grown further north where a specimen can't be grown outside year around, then one must hand pollinate flowers which eventually make clusters of translucent red berries. These are often displayed in Japan with plants in bonsai shows.
Zones 7-9
