Size: vine, 25-30' average height at maturity
Buds: hidden beneath raised area below prominent leaf scars
Leaves: deciduous, alternate, 3-6" long, simple, broad ovate to elliptic, acuminate, margins sharply serrate, shiny dark green, yellow-green in fall
Twigs: vine that climbs rampantly by twining, stems grayish, glabrous, prominent light-colored lenticels
Flowers: essentially dioecious, in leaf axils of 3 or more, white or greenish white, approximately .8" wide
Fruit: greenish yellow berry, 1" long, .75" wide, edible, type of hardy kiwi
Bark: grayish
