Chilean Jasmine
Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about mandevilla species chilean jasmine mandevilla laxa supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles database at daves garden.
Chilean jasmine. Mandevilla suaveolens is a tender deciduous climber from argentina and bolivia and called the chilean jasmine. Series 28 episode 10. It grows as a vine and is deciduous in cool climates. Genus mandevilla can be woody climbers or perennials often with tuberous roots and twining stems bearing simple leaves and axillary racemes of showy funnel shaped flowers with 5 spreading lobes.
This vine is much hardier to 100f. Masses of heavily scented white flowers are produced in the summer. Chilean jasmines flowers are followed by pairs of elongated bean like fruit pods. Vigorous climbing plant with broad dark green leaves and large white.
It has luxurious 6 inch long bright green glossy leaves with a long tapering point and an abundance of fragrant white flowers in summer. It can grow to 6 meters 20 feet tall. Across 8 cm with broad petal lobes. Blooming periodically in summer the blossoms contrast against the lush foliage of.
Mandevilla laxa chilean jasmine a moderately fast growing semi deciduous slender stemmed twining vine that grows to 12 feet or more wide and high with support and develops a succulent subterranean caudex. The blossoms release a sweet vanilla fragrance that is most pronounced in the evening. Strongly fragrant and vigorous mandevilla laxa chilean jasmine is a semi evergreen woody twining climber with sprays of 3 15 large creamy white funnel shaped flowers up to 3 in. Other common names chilean jasmine.
Chilean jasmine botanical name. In colder regions treat the plant as an annual or bring it inside over the winter. Chilean jasmines tolerance of and ability to flower under cooler conditions make it a wise choice for temperate garden climates. Laxa is native to southern ecuador peru bolivia and northern argentina.
These fruits and the distinctive fragrance have led some to call this plant the vanilla bean vine though the. Mandevilla laxa commonly known as chilean jasmine is an ornamental plant in the genus mandevilla of family apocynaceae. Dont you just love the way we give plants the wrong names.