General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Vine
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 11 +4.4 °C (40 °F) to +7.2 °C (50 °F)
Plant Height: 25-50 feet
Plant Spread: 5-15 feet
Leaves: Evergreen
Semi-evergreen
Fruit: Other: 4 to 6 inch long oblong, fleshy pod containing up to 12 seeds.
Fruiting Time: Late summer or early fall
Fall
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Blue
Other: Up to 10 foot long racemes of turquoise to blue-green or mint green flowers.
Bloom Size: 2"-3"
Flower Time: Late spring or early summer
Summer
Suitable Locations: Espalier
Uses: Cut Flower
Edible Parts: Flowers
Eating Methods: Cooked
Resistances: Humidity tolerant
Propagation: Seeds: Provide light
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators: Wasps
Bats
Bees
Containers: Not suitable for containers

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Common names
  • Jade Vine
  • Jade Climber
  • Emerald Creeper
  • Flor-de-Jade

Photo Gallery
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: April 2014
Location: Sumatera Indonesia
Date: 2017-11-25
Location: Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Date: 2022-03-26
Location: Maui
Date: March 2013
Jade Vine - Garden of Eden
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2022-03-17
Jade Vine 001
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: March 2014
These buds are now about to open.
Location: My greenhouse, Florida
Date: 4000-09-19
This vine will eat the world if you allow it to
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: March 2016
left a new string of buds, right an open flower raceme
Location: Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Date: 2022-03-26
Location: Hortus Botanicus Leiden
Date: 2022-03-26
Location: RHS Wisley, Surrey, UK.
Date: 2022-08-04
Location: RHS Wisley, Surrey, UK.
Date: 2022-08-04
Location: Durham Botanical Garden, UK
Image by Spencer C. H. Barrett, University of Toronto
Location: Naples Botanical Garden, Naples, Florida
Date: March 2016
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: March 2014
Location: My greenhouse, Florida
Date: 4000-12-13
My jade vine set seed one year, have no idea how. This pod had 7
Location: National Botanical Garden (DC) | November 2022
Date: 2022-11-26

Date: April
credit: Prenn
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: March 2014
newly formed buds
Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2022-05-28
Jade Vine 004 vertical
Photo by treehugger
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: March 2014
Location: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Date: 2015-04-25
A Jade Vine's buds about to open :)
Location: Sarasota, FL
Date: 2015-04-30
At Selby Gardens
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