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Chinese Silk Vine

Periploca sepium (per-RY-ploh-kuh SERP-ee-um)

Family: Apocynaceae Unknown Vine (vertical)

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.

Source: NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox ↗ NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox, 24 attributes.

How it fits the guild

Guild layer 6 - Vine (vertical)
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Companions & Conflicts

Curated pairwise relationships between this plant and others in the library — who feeds whom, who competes, who confuses the pests. Green reads as a good pairing, red as one to avoid.

No curated interactions recorded for this species yet.

Also noted by NC State

Related species the NC State Plant Toolbox flags for this plant — look-alikes to tell apart, and plants that play a similar role in a planting. Ones we carry in the library are linked.

Fills a similar niche Rosa 'Rhonda' Schisandra glabra Vitis riparia

Full plant profile

Growing Conditions
Plant type
Vine
USDA zones
6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b
Light
Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day)
Growth rate
Rapid
Canopy layer
6 - Vine (vertical)
Form & Appearance
Texture
Coarse
Foliage
Deciduous
Leaf color
Green
Hairs present
No
Flower color
Green; Purple/Lavender
Flower value
Fragrant
Flower shape
Star
Flower detail
Dark purple outside and greenish inside, ill scented flowers.
Fruit color
Gold/Yellow
Wildlife & Ecology
Native status
Unknown
Landscape Use
Garden tags
#deciduous #malodorous #deciduous vine
Problems & Resistance
Problems
Malodorous

Planted at Hunnicutt

Nobody’s planted this one yet.