Jade Vine

Jade Vine has the scientific name Strongylodon macrobotrys and is known by many other native names such as emerald vine or turquoise jade vine. Jade Vine is a rare and distinctive-looking plant, which is a woody vine from the Philippines with long stems and large, elliptical dark leaves. The tree is native to the tropical forests of the Philippines, each stem can reach up to 18 m in length.

For identification, Jade Vine comes in big drooping clusters and they look a bit like claws or the beaks of parrots. The claw-shaped flowers are carried in pendant trusses or pseudoracemes of 75 or more flowers and can reach as much as 3 m long. In the shade, the plant is blue to turquoise in color or from blue-green to mint green plus its distinctive shape makes it unusual among other flower varieties in the world. In the Philippines, the jade vine is edible and used similarly to Sesbania grandiflora.

Type of plant: woody perennial vine.
Size: up to 18 feet tall (5.4 meters tall).
Conservation status: vulnerable.
Origin: Philippines.
Reason for being rare: Destruction of natural habitat.

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