The flower with super dream color-- emerald kudzu

Pueraria lobata, scientific name green jade vine, is a perennial evergreen vine of Leguminosae (butterfly flower family). The stem is woody, up to 20 meters long. Palmately compound, often 3-foliolate, leaflets long elliptic, apex acuminate, base cuneate, veins obvious, leaves entire, lower leaflets asymmetric. The raceme is made up of several florets. The claw-shaped flowers vary in color from blue-green to mint green, with inflorescences up to 1.5 meters. Pods. Flowering and fruiting: flowering from December to April.

Hanging in the thick leaves, the flowers look extremely charming as if they were glowing. The tropical rain forest native to the Philippines has an unusual color that is almost different from any plant. Some famous gardens such as the Royal Botanical Garden and the University of Cambridge Botanical Garden have been introduced and cultivated in South and Southwest China.

Emerald kudzu

Habitat of origin:

Green jade vines grow mostly by streams in damp forests and rely on bats to pollinate. Native to the tropical rainforest of the Philippines, green jade vines are used to make garlands in Hawaii and vertical greening of walls in Thailand. Introduced and cultivated in South China and Southwest China, Xishuangbanna Botanical Garden was introduced from Thailand in October 2003 and has blossomed.

Emerald kudzu

To grow and reproduce:

The green jade vine is not resistant to frost and the winter temperature should be kept above 15.6oC. Should be planted in neutral to acidic soil, like full light. Semi-mature stem cuttings can take root in a heated sand bed at the bottom. The seed setting rate is low and is pollinated by bats in tropical forests. the fruits, such as cyan mangoes, mature brown, with 6 to 10 brown seeds shaped like cashews. It is best to sow seeds as early as possible after maturity, but the sowing temperature should be maintained above 26.7oC.

Emerald kudzu

Main values:

The emerald kudzu flower has a strange shape and rare colors, and the blooming season is like a bird returning to its nest, which is magnificent. From late spring to early summer, the flowers grow flat along the pedicels, with dozens of flowers in each cluster, Jasper with blue luster, keel petals tilted upward in the shape of a parrot beak, and each blooming flower looks like a bird carved by emerald. The flowers are next to each other, one after another, like a flock of birds taking off.

This kind of ornamental vine is an excellent ornamental vine, which can be scaffolded in parks and courtyards and molded into arches, hedges, flower corridors, pavilions and so on.