Jade vine shines in Xishuangbanna garden

The jade vine, or strongylodon macrobotrys, is blooming in south Yunnan’s Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, presenting visitors natural beauty.

Shining itself either in spring or summer, the claw-shaped emerald plant can form flowering patterns as long as 150 cent meters.

Reporting by Nian Xinhong (Xinhua Net); Trans-editing by Wang Shixue