It contains evergreen, woody-stemmed lianas with a scattered distribution in several tropical and subtropical regions.

[4][5] Stephanotis are grown for their strongly perfumed, waxy, tubular, usually white flowers.

Stephanotis is a beautiful but difficult plant - it hates sudden changes in temperature, needs constant cool conditions in winter and is attractive to scale and mealy bug.

[6] The best known species is Stephanotis floribunda (Madagascar jasmine), which is cultivated as a tropical or hothouse ornamental, and whose flowers are a popular element in wedding bouquets.

[citation needed] The Stephanotis has grown in popularity over the past few years along with some of the other spring flowering vines.