This shrubby vine has smooth woody stems that twine around supports and has oval-shaped dark green leaves. It produces small clusters of rose pink to purplish trumpet-shaped flowers during summer.

Hardiness zones 10 to 11

Mandevilla sanderi is naturally found in South America growing in forest margins and along water courses.

It prefers a well drained fertile deep moist sandy to light clay loam that is rich and organic in a protected sunny position and is frost and drought tender.

The Chilean Jasmine is grown for its flowers and shrubby habit. It is grown outdoors in warm climates over fences or trained over pergolas for screening or shade. It may also be grown in containers for a tropical effect and establishes in 2 to 3 years. In cool climates it is grown as a glasshouse or conservatory specimen, requiring a bright light. ID 1008

Mandevilla (măn-da-VIL-a) sanderi(SAHN-da-ree)

"Mandevilla" commemorates British Minister at Buenos Ayres, Henry J. Mandeville; "sanderi" commemorates German botanical explorer Henry F. Sander.

Apocynaceae(a-pos-ih-NAY-see-ee)