Jade Vine
Strongylodon macrobotrys
(stron-GY-loh-don) (mak-ro-BOT-rees)
Synonyms: Emerald Creeper, Flor-de-Jade, Jade Climber
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My day has been filled with tropical garden touring. This flower is probably one of my favorite all time colors. I don’t know of any other flower quite like it. Of all the specimens I have seen of this plant (not that many but a few) this one was blooming the best.
Click Here for a Larger VersionJade Vine is endangered in its native area of the Philippines. It can grow to 40 feet long and attractive to hummingbirds. The flowers are often used for leis here in Hawaii but I haven’t seen that yet.
Even the flower litter was pretty awesome.
9 comments:
What an unusual color for a flower.
My monitor shows the color to be a kind of teal blue. It's beautiful.
What a beautiful and exotic looking flower!
I think this is such an interesting bloom. It makes me a bit sad to think it is endangered. It is so unusual.
Thanks for the comments. I did read that the flower color is rare for the plant kingdom (like this might be the only flower quite this color).
Janet,
It is endangered in the wild however it will never be extinct because of all the specimens in cultivation.
A rare colored flower! I am pleased to see this.
Fairchild has a great plant and it is one vine I've always wanted to grow. We haven't actively sought it out, though.
Amazing... so unusual and lovely that it hardly seems real!
Hi,
found your page the other day, trough another page here in Sweden, Europe.
Great pics, lovely page, I'll see you again. (even linked to your page:-)
Have a nice day
( I don´t know if my name at the top gets a bit scrambled, while I have those "funny" letters with dots on top. My alias means "Garden Maker")
Regards, Hillevi
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