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Double Mahoi Banana - a traditional Cavendish banana but generally produces a double stalk of bananas its second year of fruiting, increasing the harvest. It is a top choice for home growers thanks to its compact size, fast fruiting, and double harvests. This dwarf variety grows only 6-8 ft tall and can produce two large bunches of sweet, flavorful bananas from a single plant. Perfect for containers, patios, or small gardens, it's easy to grow and highly productive - one of the best bananas for reliable fruit in limited space!

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Blackberry jam fruit, Jasmin de rosa - fragrant white flowers and edible fruit that tastes like blackberry jam! Rare exotic that will fruit in container. Kids love the fruit.
Plant prefers filtered light.

The Spirit of 76 mango is a premier hybrid that combines the best traits of its parentage, the Zill and Haden varieties. This selection is highly regarded for its oval-shaped fruit which features a vibrant, eye-catching skin and completely fiberless flesh. The eating quality is exceptional, offering a rich, classic mango flavor that is both sweet and aromatic. Because of its superior taste and smooth, melting texture, it has become a favorite among tropical fruit enthusiasts.
The tree itself is a moderately vigorous grower with a spreading canopy, making it an excellent candidate for residential landscapes and backyard orchards. It is known for being a reliable producer, yielding a heavy crop of high-quality fruit. For the home grower, the Spirit of 76 offers a perfect balance of manageable growth habit and gourmet-tier fruit, ensuring a "top-shelf" mango experience right from the garden. See more info about Mango varieties.

The 18th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- Plantaholic column. Four Black Nut Trees of Ethnobotanic Interest, PART 2
- Growers of beauty. Garden of Eden by the Polar Circle
- Growing indoors. Amorphophallus: unusual method of propagation and growing indoors
- Tropical treasures Q&A: fragrant vines
- Meet the tropics. Growing Lychee in Southern Landscapes
- Zone pushing. Dealing with cold damaged plants
- Exotic kaleidoscope. Spectacular winter bloomers
- A note from the editor. Give it time
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The 19th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- TRAVEL - MEET THE TROPICS. THE CONSERVATORY
- EXOTIC KALEIDOSCOPE. FUN FRUIT FACTS
- GROWING INDOORS. INDOOR TROPICAL MICROCLIMATES: A TRANSPLANTED FLORIDIAN COPES WITH WINTERS
Nature's food and pharmacy. SPECTACULAR FRUIT TREES AND EDIBLES FOR SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES AND CONTAINER CULTURE. PART I: ALL-TIME FAVORITES
- A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR. IT SAYS SOME THING.
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The 20th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- PLANT INTRODUCTION. PASSION FLOWERS REVEALEDl implication, this is far from the truth...
- NATURE'S FOOD AND FARMACY. SPECTACULAR FRUIT TREES AND EDIBLES FOR SOUTHERN LANDSCAPES AND CONTAINER CULTURE. PART II: FRUIT TREES FOR SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
- GROWING PAPAYA TREE FROM SEED
- Miracle Fruit -THE FUN, THE TRICKS, AND RECEPIES
- EXOTIC KALEIDOSCOPE. SUNNY FLOWERS FOR SUMMER FUN
- GROWING INDOORS. GROWING TROPICAL PLANTS IN THE DESERT
- A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR. MY FIRST LOVE
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Plumeria Granny is a full, eye-catching variety known for its abundant clusters and rich pink tones. The flowers range from soft blush pink to deeper rosy shades, often blending together within the same cluster, giving a layered, dimensional look.
Each bloom has smooth, slightly overlapping petals that create a rounded, almost ruffled appearance when grouped together. The color can shift subtly across the petals, with lighter centers and more saturated edges adding depth and visual interest.
This variety is all about volume and presence - when in bloom, it produces dense, heavy clusters that feel lush and vibrant. A great choice if you want a plumeria that looks full, colorful, and impressive from a distance while still holding fine detail up close.

The unique full-color edition about World Favorite Flower: Jasminum Sambac. Over 30 beautiful full color photos of all varieties, history of the plant, cultural meaning, even confectionery and tea recipes! Classification of varieties, explanation of differences with pictures. Cultivation, common problems, growing tips. Just about anything you need to know about this plant to grow it and enjoy its beauty and fragrance. See Cover and Inside the book.

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Beautiful and informative full-color edition from series "Plants with Scents as Heady as Incense". A complete info about tropical magnolias, history, species, cultivation, medicinal use and much more. Just about anything you need to know about these plants to grow it and enjoy their beauty and fragrance. 50 color photos, 44 pages. See Cover, Contents and Inside the book.

The unique full-color edition about the Queen of Fragrance - Ylang-Ylang. 20 beautiful full color photos of Cananga odorata, history of the plant, legends, cultural meaning, perfume production, aromatherapy recipes, cultivation tips on growing indoors and in the ground.

A unique book about growing mangroves as houseplants and in aquarium. Many color photos. Habitat, growing instructions for aquariums and Lucky-Mangrove, water purifying facts and charts.

Tropical Gardener Library. Problem solving with potted plants: how can we help them? A pocket size book, full color. The book will answer most of your questions when starting to deal with tropical plants, will help to avoid many common mistakes, identify problems with potted plants and fix most of them before it is too late.

Dorstenia bahiensis is an interesting plant with strange looking receptacles. At maturity, seeds shoot ballistically from the mature flower/fruit heads, and they germinate readily whenever the land on soil or other moist substrate.
A quirky, shade-loving plant with glossy leaves and button-like flower discs. When ripe, those button heads pop their seeds like tiny popcorn, launching them across the yard. Compact at just 6-12 inches, it makes a playful groundcover or a fun conversation piece in a pot.

Barbados-Cherry, Acerola. The best source of vitamin C. Fast growing, fruits easily. Densely branched shrub with deep shiny green leaves. Tolerates alkaline soil. Has the highest vitamin C content of any fruit. Used in jellies, jams, freezes without losing its vitamin C content. The plant is drought tolerant and easy to grow.

Holmskioldia citrina - Rare variety - bright yellow flowers. Sometimes this species is called Holmskioldia sanguinea Mandarin. Unique flowers are the main interest of this scrambling shrub: each is a narrow, tube backed by a broad, circular calyx.
See picture of actual plants for sale - in full bloom! (Dec 2012)

The 21th issue of TROPICAL TREASURES. A unique magazine about pushing the limits of tropical gardening, growing tropical plants in non-tropical climate and indoors.
This issue specials:
- Nature's Food and Pharmacy. The King of Spices: black pepper. Growing Black pepper.
- Growers of beauty. Getaway
- Growing outdoors. Top Tropicals guide to late-season plants (Fall through Early Spring) in SOUTH Florida
- Ask the pros: Tropical treasures Q&A. Transplanting plants from pots into ground and from ground into pots. Cold protection tips
- A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR. Looking at the Green
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Wiri Wiri Pepper. A variety from Guyana, the Wiri Wiri pepper is the illustrious gem; hard sought and rarely found. This plant produces good yields of small 1/2" berry shaped hot peppers. Peppers grow upright, are very hot, and turn from green, to orange, to red when mature.
What makes it so much different than any other hot pepper grown in the garden or bought at the store?
Hot? Yes, it is important that hot peppers are, but the people who really know, know that it is not just about heat, it is about flavor! And that is exactly what makes this little red gem so special. Guyanese dinners will only take one of those meals for you to never forget! The secret of their food is the flavor, and one of the cornerstone ingredients in many of their dishes is the Wiri pepper. The Guyanese population claim that it is not just a key ingredient to their diet, but also to why they are so good looking, live so long, and have such great skin.

SugarLoaf is low acid pineapple originated from West Africa and has a mildly sweet flavor and an edible core. The variety is much thinner, taller and heavier in weight for its size than a regular golden pineapple; it has a dark green skin even when ripe and a creamy white interior fruit. Planted outside in tropical zones or as a patio/indoor plant in the north, Sugarloaf is a leading worldwide commercial variety. Self fruitful. Large pointed top, smooth leaf with serratted edge. Sugarloaf can can reach 10 pounds! White flesh. Even the core is edible. Also called Kona Sugarloaf. Excellent flavor, pretty plant and fruit.
Read more about Pineapple: The most luscious Hospitality Fruit: Pineapple.

A dwarf papaya perfect for growing in pots. Will grow quickly and produce ripe fruit in as little as one year. In spite of its dwarf habit, the fruit can reach 5-6" in diameter, size of a small melon, large and oval.
The delicious fruit of the papaya is good for you as a dessert or as a digestive aid (it contains the enzyme papain, which is essential to digestion).
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Julie seedling that is acclimated to Florida's humidity, with superior disease resistance. Fiberless fruit with even ripening that has a sweet tropical taste throughout. It is a dwarf variety, making it perfect for small yards or pots.
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A small treelet from South America, grows to eight feet tall, producing white flowers with a showy red calyx all year. Plants start flower when they less than a year old. It is super slow growing and is a great choice as a rare specimen for a container garden.

Also called "First Love" (sometimes misspelled as YAshioka), this cultivar is one of the darkest green of all gardenias, it has a 3 to 5 inch bloom so perfect, it looks artificial. It was developed by Tadaoki Yoshioka while he lived in Hawaii, and he later brought it to Florida when he moved to Ft. Lauderdale with his family in 1954. The gardenia was named after his daughter, Aimee (Aimee Hironaka), who died in a plane crash in Dallas on August 2, 1985 (Delta Flight 191).
Aimee gardenia grows openly and upright and blooms twice a year and slightly later than others. Flower Size 3 - 5".
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page about gardenias, their cultivation and varieties.
See picture of actual plant for sale (1-2013).

New rare variety from Brazil, collectible item. Deep red-wine color, slightly fragrant flowers. Blooming size.

This Adenium hybrid, Chailai, features striking red petals with white tips, creating a bold and dramatic contrast. The multiple layers of petals add depth and elegance, while the vibrant colors give the flower a lively, energetic look. This variety is sure to stand out in your garden, offering both beauty and a touch of excitement.