{"id":4909,"date":"2016-06-12T14:52:19","date_gmt":"2016-06-12T14:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4909"},"modified":"2016-06-12T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2016-06-12T14:52:19","slug":"cambridge-university-botanic-garden-jade-vine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4909","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge University Botanic Garden &#8211; Jade vine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we went to the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. One plant that really stood out for us was Strongylodon macrobotrys; more commonly known as the jade vine. We had never seen, nor heard of, this plant before but we were stunned by the colour of the flowers &#8211; I hope these photos to some justice to the plant:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4910 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0498r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-401x600.jpg\" alt=\"Strongylodon macrobotrys (jade vine)\" width=\"401\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0498r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-401x600.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0498r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0498r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0498r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 85vw, 401px\" \/>\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4913 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0493r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Strongylodon macrobotrys (jade vine)\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0493r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0493r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0493r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0493r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4912 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0492r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-401x600.jpg\" alt=\"Strongylodon macrobotrys (jade vine)\" width=\"401\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0492r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-401x600.jpg 401w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0492r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0492r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0492r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 401px) 85vw, 401px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This plant is, apparently, related to the broad bean and runner bean although I have never seen such striking coloured flowers on these plants. Reading about it, the seed pods are so heavy, they need to be supported as they ripen which, we presume, is what the red mesh bags are for in the photo above and more clearly seen in the photo below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4911 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0488r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Strongylodon macrobotrys (jade vine)\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0488r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0488r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0488r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/s16_0488r1w_Strongylodon-macrobotrys-jade-vine.jpg 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These plants were in the tropical glasshouse at the gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we went to the Cambridge University Botanic Garden. One plant that really stood out for us was Strongylodon macrobotrys; more commonly known as the jade vine. We had never seen, nor heard of, this plant before but we were stunned by the colour of the flowers &#8211; I hope these photos to some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4909\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cambridge University Botanic Garden &#8211; Jade vine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4915,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4909\/revisions\/4915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}