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== Cultivars and selections ==

The named selections are ornamental, chosen for flower color and foliage rather than fruit quality; no fruit-quality cultivar is documented in the references used here. <sup>[[#cite_note-4|[4]]]</sup> 'Silver Bells' (accepted RHS name) has white male flowers with purple-pink stamens and pinkish-purple female flowers, and, like the species, needs two plants and long, hot summers to fruit. <sup>[[#cite_note-10|[10]]]</sup> 'White Chocolate' (RHS Award of Garden Merit) is a vanilla-scented, white-to-pale-purple flowered selection whose fruit is recorded as whitish and banana-flavored; its name status is listed as unresolved, so it should be treated as a marketed selection rather than a formal cultivar. <sup>[[#cite_note-11|[11]]]</sup> Other names in the nursery trade include 'Alba' (white flowers), 'Rosea' (pink flowers), 'Shirobara' (white flowers), 'Compacta' (a less vigorous form) and 'Variegata' (variegated leaves with maroon-purple flowers). <sup>[[#cite_note-4|[4]]]</sup> White-flowered clones are commonly paired with the purple type for cross-pollination; bloom-time differences between the two can defeat the pairing. <sup>[[#cite_note-14|[14]]]</sup> For a fruit crop, request two genetically distinct plants rather than two cuttings of the same clone.