Jade Vine at the New York Botanical Garden

One of my favorite blooms at the New York Botanical Garden's Conservatory is the jade vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys). The jade vine is indigenous to the Philippines, where its tendrils scramble up tropical rain forest trees in an effort to seek out sunlight.

Philippine JADE VINE Blooms at the ENIS A. HAUPT CONSERVATORY

The Enid A. Haupt Conservatory in the Bronx, the nation's largest Victorian glasshouse features a myriad of marvelous tropical flowers including JADE VINE. I captured these images of cascading flowers of Philippine jade vine when I visited the conservatory for the Brazilian orchid show recently.

From wikipedia:

The jade vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) is a native of the tropical forests of the Philippines. Its flowers are the color of jade, and hang in bunches up to 90 cm long; each clawlike flower is about 7½ cm long. In its native Philippines, the jade vine's flowers are pollinated by bats.

S. macrobotrys is prized in tropical and subtropical gardens for its showy flowers which are a highly unusual blue-green. It is usually grown over a pergola so that the flowers may hang down below where they can be seen easily.