Tonkin Jasmine Plant – Telosma cordata Live Starter in 2.5 Inch Pot | Fragrant Climbing Vine

Tonkin Jasmine Plant Overview

The Tonkin Jasmine, also known as Telosma cordata, Pakalana vine, Chinese Violet, or Cowslip Creeper, is a tropical climbing vine prized for its intense, sweet fragrance. This live starter plant is grown from a cutting and arrives established in a 2.5-inch pot, ready to thrive in your garden or container.

Key Features

• Produces clusters of small yellow-green flowers with a strong tropical scent
• Fast-growing, twining habit ideal for trellises, fences, balconies, or patios
• Suitable for tropical and subtropical gardens
• Can be grown in containers and brought indoors in cooler climates
• Healthy, rooted young plant delivered with secure packaging

Growing Information

• 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

For best results, provide a trellis or support for climbing. In cooler climates, growing in a container allows you to bring the plant indoors during cold weather to protect it 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.