broad-leaved sausage vine dark-flowered

Vigorous woody-stemmed evergreen or semi-evergreen, twining climber about 6m tall, with papery dark green leaves composed of 5 or more leaflets which drop as the plant comes into flower. Abundant, fragrant, separate purplish-blue male flowers and pale pink-lilac female flowers in spring are sometimes followed by purple sausage-shaped edible fruit