Strongylodon macrobotrys

I really love this vine! I know it can be grown here; however, I've never tried it before. Although, it's not common.

This is my "lottery win" plant. It'll take a lottery win to give it what it needs here in the UK.

Yes, it's a very tender vine from the Philippines. I hear it needs a good two years before it can bloom here...and should be planted in a warm protected spot. It's cultural requirement are very similar to Mucuna bennettii (Flame Vine) and Quisqualis indica 'Flore Plena' - Rangoon Creeper.

It would have my vote to Meanie I fell in love with it in the glass house at Kew gardens its such an amazing colour !

I just noticed all the grammatical errors in my last comment. LOL!

I meant to say: Strongylodon macrobotrys cultural requirements outside are very similar to Mucuna bennettii (Flame Vine) and Quisqualis indica 'Flore Plena' - Rangoon Creeper.

I almost purcahsed a Quisqualis indica 'Flore Plena' - Rangoon Creeper last week at Kartuz Greenhouses...instead I purchased a Gynura aurantiaca.

Amy - it is impossible not to love this vine I think.

Delonix - I just put the grammar down to you being American!!!!!!!!!!
I have someone after a flowering vine for a warm/hot conservatory with low humidity - any ideas?

Thanks mate! :>/ LOL!

I think any Thunbergia species, Stephanotis floribunda, Plumbago, Clerodendrum, Bougainvillea if they want thorns. I think even Strongylodon macrobotrys if the conservatory doesn't go below 45 - 50ºF (7 - 10ºC) too often.

Beautiful what a colour!!!!!

Thanks Delonix - passed them along.

Simbad - it will be incredible in the next week or two.

You're welcome.

What it gets even better!!!

Simbad - it does!

http://bit.ly/1b8BE09

What an amazing colour...

It really is better in the flesh.

Meanie:

Do you grow Epipremnum aureum there in your conservatories? When grown in a large area on wood or a tree the leaves become gigantic...the leaves don't stay small like on a house plant grown vine. I just thought of this plant because I saw a very large one growing on the side a house a few days back.

I can't say that I've seen it for sale here.

It's an extremely common house plant here in the U.S. Its common name is Pothos vine. You may not recognize the plant when grow outdoors because the leaves grow to more than two feet long and almost as wide. The leaves resemble Monstera deliciosa (Split-leaf-Philodendron).