Add a rare and beautifully fragrant vine to your collection with this Telosma cordata live starter plant, also known as Tonkin Jasmine, Pakalana vine, Chinese Violet, or Cowslip Creeper. This young plant is grown from a cutting and comes established in a 2.5-inch pot, ready to continue growing in your garden or container.

Highly valued for its intensely sweet, tropical fragrance, this climbing vine produces clusters of small yellow-green flowers that bloom in warm conditions. Its fast-growing, twining habit makes it perfect for trellises, fences, balconies, or patio spaces.

A favorite in tropical and subtropical gardens, this plant brings both elegance and a strong evening fragrance to outdoor living areas. It can also be grown in containers and brought indoors in cooler climates.

You will receive a plant similar in size and condition to the one shown in the listing photos.

• 1 live Telosma cordata starter plant
• Grown from cutting
• 2.5-inch nursery pot
• Healthy, rooted young plant
• Secure packaging for safe delivery

Growing Information

• Common Names: Tonkin Jasmine, Pakalana Vine, Chinese Violet, Cowslip Creeper
• Botanical Name: Telosma cordata
• Plant Type: Tropical climbing vine
• Growth Stage: Starter plant
• Sun Requirements: Full sun to partial shade
• Soil: Well-draining, fertile soil
• Watering: Moderate; keep soil evenly moist
• Mature Height: 10–20+ feet (with support)
• Growth Rate: Fast
• USDA Zones: 9–11
• Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip

Provide a trellis or support for climbing. In cooler climates, grow in a container and bring indoors during cold weather to protect from frost.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.