Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Can Frangipani be a vine? How to bring fragrance into your garden
Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani vine
Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani vine
Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani vine
Chonemorpha fragrans, or Frangipani vine, is a large woody tropical liana with clusters of large, perfume-fragrant flowers and lush green foliage. It is close related to perfumed Plumeria - Frangipani.
- ๐ธ Chonemorpha's intoxicating scent fills the air, creating a sensory delight for all nearby.
- ๐ธ Leaves reaching up to 12 (!) inches add to its allure.
- ๐ธ Being a large woody vine, Frangipani vine requires sturdy support, making it a majestic addition to any garden or indoor space.
- ๐ธ Takes both sun or shade. Full sun is essential for profuse blooming.
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How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba?
Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator
Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator
Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator
Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator
Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator
In fact, they are very much alike! Just different species of Myrciaria that has somewhat smaller growth habit, which makes it an excellent container fruit tree! It also is much more productive.
- ๐ต Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator is a beautiful slow growing tree or shrub. It bears dark purple, almost bluish fruits, with thin, sweet flesh that taste somewhat like sweet grapes.
- ๐ต Fruits are borne in late Spring or early Fall and usually eaten fresh or used in drinks.
- ๐ต The plant is little known in cultivation, yet the fruits are of equal or superior quality to regular Jaboticaba that we mentioned earlier. A single bush may produce several thousand fruits!
- ๐ต Blue Jaboticaba can tolerate light frost when established.
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What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?
No doubt about it - it's a Coffee tree!
- ๐ธ Coffee is the most popular fruit tree suitable for indoors.
- ๐ธ Coffee is shade loving plant, easy to grow, providing regular water.
- ๐ธ Coffee grows into a beautiful dark green shrub or small tree.
- ๐ธ The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related.
- ๐ธ The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red.
- ๐ธ The seeds are the actual "coffee beans", they can easily be dried, roasted and ground at home.
๐ Coffee is a perfect gift plant and a great indoor container fruit tree.
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What is Jaboticaba? It sounds so cool!
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit on a tree
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) is the most popular native fruit of Brazil that famous Brazilian Vine La Vino Tinto is made of!๐ท
- ๐ฃ Grape-like purple fruit with a thick skin and delicious melting pulp somewhat resembling Northern Black Currant in flavor.
- ๐ฃ Trees grow very slowly and due to small leaves and dwarfish growth habit are often used as bonsai. Some old bonsai specimens can fruit.
- ๐ฃ Larger specimens are very valuable because it takes Jaboticaba up to 7 years from seed to start fruiting.
- ๐ฃ Similar to Mamey, Jaboticaba has cauliflorous fruit - that grow on main stems or woody trunks.
- ๐ฃ Jaboticaba is relatively cold hardy, mature trees are taking down to 23 F for short periods without serious damage.
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If you are missing Northern fruit that dont tolerate hot climate, here is the answer -
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
- ๐น Unlike common raspberries from up North that can not tolerate heat, Mysore Raspberry grows very well in hot humid climates.
- ๐น Grows very fast into a scrambling shrub with flexible stems.
- ๐น Blooms and fruits throughout the year.
- ๐น The fruit turns purple black when ripe, it is very juicy and sweet.
- ๐น One cluster may contain as many as couple dozen fruit.
- ๐น Great for large containers and will produce large amounts of fruit.
- ๐น Cold hardy to upper 20s F.
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Number one Sweet Raspberry for your dessert! For the previous post
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
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Why Noni is a superfood?
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree, fruit
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree, fruit
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree fruit and flower
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree juice
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree
We mentioned Noni fruit in our previous post as a fruit that keeps you young.
This beautiful small tree with lush foliage is very undemanding, and can be grown as a houseplant.
What is the secret of Noni power?
Noni juice, derived from the fruit of the Morinda citrifolia tree, has many medicinal effects:
1 Antioxidant properties: lowering the risk of chronic diseases.
2 Anti-inflammatory effects: help conditions like arthritis.
3 Immune system support: immune-boosting due to its high content of vitamin C and other compounds, reducing the risk of infections.
4 Digestive health: improves digestion and regularity.
5 Pain relief: joint pain, headaches, and cramps.
6 Cardiovascular health: lowers cholesterol levels and improves blood circulation
7 Liver health: protects the liver from damage caused by toxins and free radicals
8 Anti-cancer properties: may help inhibit the growth of cancer cells
9 Skin health: soothes irritated skin, promote wound healing
10 Energy and vitality: boosts energy levels, improves stamina.
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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
Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca
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 ๐... you can't stop sticking your nose in this flower!
๐ผ Sacred tree of India and SE Asia
flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women
๐ณ Perfect small landscape tree of a columnar shape. Ideal for containers.
๐ก Relatively cold hardy
๐ Rare collectible, a gem of any plant collection!
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Brown thumb? No problem
Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl
Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl
Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl
๐ฟ Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl is the most exceptional plant we've ever seen.
- doesn't care about water
- doesn't care about light
- doesn't care about cats messing with it
- just keeps growing, and growing, and growing...
๐ต It is an indoor miracle!
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Hot-hot-hot HEART! Yet so tasty and flavorful! How hot is it, really?
Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper
Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper
Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper
๐ฅ Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper โค๏ธ-shaped!
- โค๏ธ An exceptionally distinct pepper, an ancient hybrid of Capsicum annuum (bird pepper) and Capsicum chinense (habanero group).
- โค๏ธ While of small size (1"), these heart-shaped red fruits are prolifically produced along the branches of compact plants.
- โค๏ธ Extremely showy, ornamental peppers with culinary benefits. Great for container garden.
- โค๏ธ What separates this variety from others is its unique intense fruity habanero flavor which packs quite a bang! ๐ฅ
- โค๏ธ For abundant crops, fertilizer with Sunshine C-Cibus plant booster.
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