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Jade vine: the beautiful flower with the mystery pollinator
Learn more about the jade vine, the beautiful climbing plant from the Philippines.
Incredible blue-green flowers, enormous fruits and an enduring mystery on what pollinates it: the jade vine has it all.
Join Kew expert Aidan Pike as we dig deeper into the jade vine, an incredible climbing plant from the Philippines. Learn about the meaning of its scientific name how the flower gets its unique colouration, and why it took thirty years of study for us to work out how to pollinate this unique plant!