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 The Jade Vine

 Time your visit right, and you will have to push your way (carefully!) through a curtain of theextraordinary jade-coloured flowers of the Jade Vine Strongylodon macrobotrys.

 The Jade Vine is a tropical, climbing relative of garden favourites in the Fabaceae (or pea)family, which include beans, peas, sweet peas, Wisteria and Laburnum. It has formed adense lattice of branches in the canopy of the Glasshouse Range from which up to 100racemes descend! We have one of the best-flowering specimens in UK cultivation, with eachpurple raceme stem supporting many cartwheels of the sensational, almost neon, blue-green flowers that give rise to the common name of Jade Vine.In its native Philippines, the Jade Vine reaches more than 20 metres in height and ispollinated by bats! It is thought the bats are attracted by the luminosity of the flowers in thetropical twilight, and they hang upside down on the raceme stalks to gorge on the vastquantities of nectar in the flowers. With the flowers dangling down to eye level in theGlasshouse Range, the rich sticky nectar can be easily seen and a close-up inspection of theclaw-like flowers reveals the floral similarity between this spectacular tropical liana and themore famililar peas and beans in the Fabaceae.

In the wild, the Jade Vine is considered vulnerable to extinction due to extensivedeforestation, so do come and enjoy this extraordinary plant at its flowering peak later thismonth. http://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/Botanic/TrailPlace.aspx?p=27&ix=88&pid=0&prcid=0&ppid=0

 Jade vine is a plant which belongs to the Strongylodon genus.

 This is a climber with simple, oval, waxy, smooth, mid gree leaves, arranged in three’saround the twisting stems

 The flowers are exceptional. They hang in pendant clusters, bearing up to 100 malachitegreen, pea like blooms.

 Jade vine grows as a perennial and is a flower. Being a perennial plant, it tends to grow best

over several years (approx 3 years and greater). Jade vine is known for growing to a heightof approximately 65.00 feet (that's 20.00 metres in metric) with a vine habit.Philippines is believed to be where Jade vine originates from. http://myfolia.com/plants/934-

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 Jade Vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys)

A native of the tropical forests of the Philippines. Its flowers are the color of jade, and hangin bunches up to 90 cm long; each clawlike flower is about 7½ cm long. the jade vine'sflowers are pollinated by bats.

 Jade vine is prized in tropical and subtropical gardens for its showy flowers which are ahighly unusual blue-green. It is usually grown over a pergola so that the flowers may hang

down below where they can be seen easily. In South Africa the jade vine is mainly restrictedto the warm humid strip of coastal Natal but grows in a few frost-free spots inland. *

 The jade vine is among the most beautiful and unusual of tropical vine flowers. Native tothe Philippines, this perennial evergreen plant sports highly unusual flowers that can bealmost turquoise in color, and which are sometimes used in attractive leis. The blossoms aretwo inches long with long pointed upturned keels, which hang in small clusters from themain stalk.

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 These are larger plants between 4-6 feet and air layered from a 4 year old plant, they shouldflower very quickly, they are already branching out.http://nipahutgardens.com/proddetail.asp?prod=Jade_Vine