🟠 Madame Fransis - dark orange pulp, slightly fibrous, robust, meaty like a steak, good with cognac. A little pulpy but unique flavor.
🟠 Diamond - bright yellow, fiberless, sugary, juicy, no pulp at all, classic mango taste, good with ice cream, "wow" taste!
🟠 Pickering - zesty, waterfall: all the flavors come at once, eat with White wine and/or a cake. Oval fruit somewhat flat, very large for a dwarf tree!
🟠 Baptiste - hint of citrus, melts in your mouth, dark orange flesh, crisp, eat with Red wine and cheese.
🟠 Florigon - creamy, buttery, spicy. Eat with Ice cream!
🟠 Tommy Atkins - has a bit zing to it, perfect consistency, perfect taste. Super colorful, crimson red to purple skin!
What is hotter that hot pepper? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
What is hotter that hot pepper?
Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper
Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper
Capsicum frutescens - Wiri Wiri Papper
🔥 What is hotter that hot pepper? Wiri Wiri Pepper!- it's about how to live long and have a great skin.
🌶 These two peppers are a must for spice lovers - intense fruity habanero flavor packs quite a bang! 💥
Extremely showy, these ornamental peppers have culinary benefits and are great for container garden.
❤️ Capsicum annuum x chinense - ❤️-shaped Biquinho Pepper that you saw in earlier post. An exceptionally distinct pepper, an ancient hybrid of Capsicum annuum (bird pepper) and Capsicum chinense (habanero group). While of small size (1"), these heart-shaped red fruits are prolifically produced along the branches of compact plants.
🔴 Capsicum frutescens - Wiri Wiri Pepper from Guyana 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. 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.
❗️ What makes these peppers so much different than any other hot peppers?
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 these little red gems so special.
♥️ It is tropical, evergreen vine from South America known for its stunning scarlet-red flowers and edible passion fruit. Yes, the fruit are edible, but they are very rarely seen.
♥️ It thrives in full sun or part shade with fertile, well-drained soils and can grow up to 10-12 feet long.
♥️ This easy-to-grow plant is perfect for trellises, walls, and containers. Minimal pruning is needed, and it blooms primarily in summer and fall.
♥️ Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds 🐝
💻 Do you grow Passion vines? Share yours in comments👇
What is the biggest mango fruit? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
What is the biggest mango fruit?
Mango Kiew Yai
What is the biggest mango fruit?
🔍 We discovered one of the biggest Mango fruit after we planted this new variety - Kiew Yai.
Right now the fruit is almost a foot long!
⏳ The tree was planted in April - only 3 months ago.
😋 Looking forward to tasting it soon and sharing our taste impressions with you. Stay with us!
⬆️ Reminder:In order to have good quality fruit, your Mango tree must be grafted. Grafted varieties start fruiting right away, while seedlings may take from 7 to 10 years to fruit and the taste of the seedling's fruit will always be a surprise, they may be small in size and very fibrous.
How to always have your own Root Beer. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
How to always have your own Root Beer
How to always have your own Root Beer
Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.
This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.
Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.
This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.
The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.
Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.
This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.
Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.
This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.
The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.
How India grows most of the mangoes in the world. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.
How India grows most of the mangoes in the world
Mango fruit
How India grows most of the mangoes in the world.
📍 India grows 45% of all the mangoes in the world. However, exports account for only 1% of international trade - almost all the mangoes are consumed locally by the residents.
📍 Mango import in the US limited by only easy-to-ship, fibrous varieties such as Tommy Atkins.
📍 To enjoy the full palette of mango varieties, you need to grow your own tree or buy fruit from local growers in southern areas.
