Jade vine
- To: "'Barry Garcia '"
- Subject: Jade vine
- From: V* A*
- Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 07:49:05 -0500
Actually we are currently growing it in the orchid house at La Mortella, the
garden in Ischia, but it hasn't bloomed yet. Does Anybody out there have a
clue? The color is really jade green (hence "jade vine") and it's wonderful!
Alessandra
-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Garcia
To: A.Vinciguerra@aarome.org
Sent: 12/14/00 7:03 AM
Subject: Re: Lapageria or...?
A.Vinciguerra@aarome.org writes:
>BTW, both sites show various photos of wonderful vines, and
particularly
>this last site has a photo of my beloved Petrea volubilis, one of the
most
>magnificent climber on earth, that alas! can be only kept under glass
here
>in Rome, but maybe can grow outdoors with some of you guys around the
>world.
The vine that caught my attention most on the last page was Strongylodon
macrobotrys - Green Jade Vine. What strikes me is the color of the
flowers
(perhaps a bit different due to the camera, shade,etc.), but it's such
an
odd color for any flower i've seen. A Greenish blue color. Not to
mention
the shapes of the flowers in the raceme. Too bad it just grows in zones
10
- 11.
