Porcelain Berry Are Aggressive , Growing Quickly to PORCELAIN Form Large Mats Over Existing Vegetation

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The vines of porcelain berry are aggressive , growing quickly to PORCELAIN form large mats over existing vegetation. It easily climbs up and around BERRY trees, shading out shrubs and seedlings of native plants . (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata)

CHARACTERISTICS WHERE FROM WHERE FOUND Y Porcelain berry is a woody, Native to Japan and China, Porcelain berry can be F perennial vine which can this plant was brought to found in southern New I grow up to 20 feet or more, North America in 1870 as England, the Mid-Atlantic T and closely resembles native an ornamental and land - and parts of the South and grapevine. The center, or scaping plant. Midwest. It can be found

N pith, is white. Its bark has in varying conditions, from lenticels (light colored dots) dry to moist areas, along E and will not peel, unlike forest edges and streams, grape bark which does not as well as areas receiving PORCELAIN BERRY FOLIAGE

D Karan A. Rawlins, University of Georgia, have lenticels and will full sunlight to partial shade. Bugwood.org I

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PORCELAIN BERRY FRUITS

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PORCELAIN BERRY SEEDLINGS Leslie J. Mehrhoff, University of Connecticut, Bugwood.org

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