Does anyone know of a source of plants or seeds of the red jade vine (Mucuna bennettii)?
looking for Mucuna bennettii (red jade vine)
You may be thinking of Mucuna novo-guineensis, Scarlet Jade Vine.
The name Mucuna bennettii is commonly misapplied to the plant by the horticultural industry.
http://www.ntbg.org/plants/plant_details.php?plantid=7747&rid=635
http://www.hear.org/starr/images/species/?q=mucuna+novoguineensis&o=plants
I can't find any ad online that offers the seeds that is recent.
Top Tropicals sells the plants.
http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/Mucuna_benettii.htm
These float up along the Atlantic coast of the US as sea beans. I found some along Cocoa Beach years ago and started one. I look along the high tide mark with the seaweed.
It froze dead just as the first flowers opened one year in an early frost.
Too bad as it would have been like scarlet wisteria all over the orchid tree it climbed.