Vine
Blue Jade Vine
Strongylodon macrobotrys A.Gray
The Philippines
Fun factThe jade vine appears on the reverse of the Philippine five-peso coin. At Kew, staff hand-pollinate the flowers; the first seed pods there were produced in 1995 after more than thirty years without any.
A woody climbing legume whose stems can reach 18 m, with trifoliolate leaves and hanging trusses up to 3 m long of luminous blue-green, claw-shaped flowers. In the wild the flowers are pollinated by bats, which hang upside down to drink the nectar. Pollinated flowers form fleshy green pods about 15 cm long.
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1on the estate
0carrying a tag
0sponsored
FamilyFabaceae
Spanish nameTrepadora de jade
Also known asJade vine, Trepadora de jade, Cascada de jade
Native toNative only to the rainforests of the Philippines (Luzon, Mindoro and Catanduanes)
| Tag | Garden area | Zone | Planted | Status | Sponsored | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Jungle Boardwalk | B | — | Planted | — |
1 of these has no tag yet; it will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.