Description: This singular, deciduous vine hailing from Southeast Asia offers masses of palmately three-lobed, serrated green leaves, lightly hairy beneath, ranging from 3 to 6 inches in length. In ...

Porcelain berry (Ampelopsis brevipedunculata), also known as amur peppervine, produces brightly colored clusters of multicolored berries that resemble porcelain spheres. Depending on their stage of ...

I don’t think it’s still there, but a few years ago I complimented the bakers at the Hungry Ghost on a vine growing just outside their door. The berries were in various state of ripeness going from ...

Late summer is the time when I must deal with the porcelain berry. This is a hardy, woody vine that landed in America as an exquisite, bejeweled bower only to be reviled later as a beast. Unchecked, ...

For those of you who get up to the Anderson Valley, the Boonville Hotel has a full-bodied display of porcelain berry vines scrambling over the wooden and rusticated wrought-iron pickets of its front ...

DEAR JESSICA: Our cucumber plants grew beautifully this summer, but then started to die suddenly. Anything on the ground looked brown and dried out within two weeks, while the vines died more slowly.

As I was painfully making my way out of the Rowan County Tax Office in Salisbury last week, I spotted a colorful grape-like fruit on a vine, cascading over the entryway shrubs. The vine is a porcelain ...