Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 3 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Smells like roses! But not a rose

Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine

Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine flowers

🌹 Smells like roses! But not a rose... What is it? Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine.

What a wonderful treat! A very rare small Thai tree with extremely fragrant flowers.

⚜️ The scent resembles roses, juicy fruit, candies, fine cologne all together and can be smelled from many yards away.
⚜️ Leaves are very ornamental and have a fountain-like architecture.
⚜️ In Thailand, the tree symbolizes simplicity, endurance, advancement, and peacefulness.
⚜️ Extract from these flowers is used in village pharmacy as relaxant and aphrodisiac.
⚜️ Easy to grow, compact dense plant, good for containers. Relatively cold hardy. Everbloomer.

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Date: 3 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is the best time to plant a tree?

Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree

🌳 What is the best time to plant a tree?

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." - Chinese Proverb

📷 Koelreuteria paniculata - Golden Rain Tree, one of the most spectacular trees of subtopics that is actually very cold hardy and drought resistant.

🔰 Cascading clusters of bright yellow flowers in summer are followed by bright pink, papery, lantern-like seed pods that gracefully dangle through autumn.
🔰 Its elegant foliage and attractive form make it a captivating centerpiece in any garden or landscape.
🔰 Very fast growing, nice solution for a shade tree.
🔰 According to ancient Chinese manuscripts, the Golden Rain Tree is crucial for Dragons, as it is believed to be connected to their existence, guarding and complementing each other. Growing these plants is considered auspicious and is believed to safeguard the Dragon family.

2024 is a year of Dragon! 🐉

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Date: 2 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Cat of the Day - Gutalin a.k.a Google.

🐈 Cat of the Day - Gutalin a.k.a. Google.

Google knows everything. He is our oldest cat (born 2007), and recently started cloning himself because he can't find helpers as smart as he is. Do you know the feeling? Hold that thought. Good night for now... 🌜

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Date: 2 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Pictures of flowers for the quiz

Cucumber Tree (Averrhoa bilimbi)

Parijat Tree (Nyctanthes arbor-tristis)

Hummingbird Tree (Sesbania grandiflora)

Papaya Tree (Carica papaya)

❓ Pictures of flowers

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Date: 2 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Fun Fact: Papayas contain an enzyme called papain, which is commonly used as a meat tenderizer, now you know what the secret is!

Papaya (Carica papaya)

📖 Fun Fact: Papayas contain an enzyme called papain, which is commonly used as a meat tenderizer, now you know what the secret is!

Papaya (Carica papaya) is a delicious fruit that is good for you as a dessert or as a digestive aid. We eat it after every meal!

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Date: 2 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Fun Fact: Bleeding Heart Vine

Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae)

📖 Fun Fact: Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae) is named for its unique red and white flowers that resemble... bleeding hearts! 😍

❣️Native to tropical West Africa
❣️ Spectacular, dramatic flowers look like a line of dangling hearts, each emerging from the other.
❣️ It's a climbing vine often grown as a houseplant or in gardens with a trellis for support.
❣️Winder heavy bloomer, but as long as you provide lots of light to it, it'll bloom most of the time.

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Date: 2 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is this Lavender Marble Perfume? Is it a possible combination?

Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night

🟣 What is this Lavender Marble Perfume? Is it a possible combination?

The flowers of this rare hybrid - Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night, are a "marble" twist of cream and purple, changing hue unpredictably. They are deliciously fragrant at night.

❓ Why such an unusual combination?

🌟 Nocturnum flowers (fragrant at night) are mostly white or off-white. This rare Brunfelsia is a cross between B. americana and B. grandiflora.
🌟Brunfelsia isola has the benefit of fragrant cream-colored brunfelsia and light purple color from the other parent. 👫
🌟 Flowers change sometimes to cream-yellow, remaining purple margins.

👑 A must have 1 for rare fragrant plant collection!

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Date: 1 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Cat of the Day - James Coconuts

🐈 Cat of the Day - James Coconuts.

James wants to be a model so he took over the photo studio. Does your cat do the same to you or to your keyboard? Share your cat photos in comments 😺

So, no plants tonight. Only Coconuts
Good night🌜

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Date: 1 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is the flower of the most expensive perfume?

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - white flower Alba

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

🏵 What is the flower of the most expensive perfume? Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree. It is the fragrance the most expensive perfume Joy is made of, and our signature flower!

The flowers from this tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - are used to make the world's most expensive perfume 'Joy' and smell like fruity bubble gum 🎀... you can't stop sticking your nose in this flower!

👼 Sacred tree of India and SE Asia
flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women

🌳 Perfect small landscape tree of a columnar shape. Ideal for containers.

🌡 Relatively cold hardy

💎 Rare collectible, a gem of any plant collection!

📚 Learn more about Champaka

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Date: 1 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?

Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)

Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?

You already saw one unusual blue flower of Tropics - Lead Flower. This one is even more interesting!

👄 Mazabuka, or Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus) has mauve-blue, unusually lipped flowers that are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!

💙 Blue Lips create a pretty floral display on this shade-loving shrub with its attractive glossy green foliage.
💙 Flowers are mauve-blue to purple and the lower petals are ribbed, giving the impression of lips, hence the common name.
💙 Five fringed lobes, equal in size, short and rounded, are the flowers distinguishing feature.
💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!

🐝🐦 The numerous flowers produced in summer are attractive to pollinating insects which encourage insect-feeding birds into the garden.

📚 Learn more: Surprising Violet fragrance of the Blue Lips

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