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What Guava variety is the best for Guava Wine. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What Guava variety is the best for Guava Wine

Araca Pera, Brazilian Guava Wine

Araca Pera, Brazilian Guava Wine

Araca Pera, Brazilian Guava tree (Psidium x angulatum)

Araca Pera, Brazilian Guava tree (Psidium x angulatum)

🍷 What Guava variety is the best for Guava Vine
  • 🍷 Araca Pera, or Brazilian Guava tree (Psidium x angulatum), is a unique Guava hybrid of a flavorful wild guava from the Brazilian Amazon which is rare in cultivation.
  • 🍷 These fruit are 1.5-2", with an acidic, sour guava-like flavor. Its juice is concentrated and must be diluted and sweetened to produce a delicious drink.
  • 🍷 It is the major source of a special Guava Wine production. Our favorite Guava Wine is from Schnebly Redland's Winery - this is where we obtained the seeds from their mother plants. This refreshing and vibrant rose wine is full of flavor and has a bouquet that never stops.
  • 🍷 The fruit is processed into ice cream sorbet, gelatins and candies.
  • 🍷 A great container specimen or a bushy tree for frost-free gardens.


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Do you like guava juice? Its packed with flavor! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Do you like guava juice? Its packed with flavor!

🍷 Do you like guava juice? It’s packed with flavor!

  • 🍉 Did you know you could enjoy fresh guava juice from your own tree?

    • It’s as easy as 1-2-3! All you have to do is plant your own guava tree.

  • 🍉 The 1-3 gal plant will start fruiting for you in no time. And you can expect a large crop in just a couple of seasons.

  • 🍉 Guava trees thrive in mild climates with frost-free winters, but can tolerate light frost once established. And if you live in a colder climate - no worries. Guava is the perfect container fruit tree. You can bring it inside during cold nights and still enjoy fresh fruit every year.

  • 🍉 Just don't forget to water - guavas are heavy drinkers.

  • 🍉Order your Guava tree today from TopTropicals.com - delivered right to your door!


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The most wanted collectible fruit tree - Honey Moon Guava. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

The most wanted collectible fruit tree - Honey Moon Guava

Variegated guava Honey Moon

🌙 The most wanted collectible fruit tree - Honey Moon Guava.
  • 🍉 Very rare variety of Guava tree - Honey Moon - is a unique variegated guava with the sweetest fruit we ever tasted.
  • 🍉 Fruit is pear-shaped and variegated (white/green striped) outside when unripe, turning bright yellow when ripe. The flesh is pink, very aromatic, sweet and delicious, and contains only a few seeds that separate from pulp easily.
  • 🍉 This variety is resistant to insects and worms.
  • 🍉 Bushy, full tree with large, broad, variegated leaves. Surprisingly for a variegated form (which are usually slow and tender), this variegated beauty is very healthy, strong, vigorous and fasts growing.
  • 🍉 The plant flowers and fruits in small size, perfect for containers. If planted in the ground, the tree grows small to medium size (10-15 ft) with has nice, symmetrical bushy shape.
  • 🍉 Everbearing, very reliable producer, the plant constantly has fruit, buds or flowers.


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What is the most medicinal Indian fruit tree? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the most medicinal Indian fruit tree?

Phyllanthus acidus - Otaheite Gooseberry, Amlak, tree

Phyllanthus acidus - Otaheite Gooseberry, Amlak, fruit

Phyllanthus acidus - Otaheite Gooseberry, Amlak, fruit

What is the most medicinal Indian fruit tree?
  • Phyllanthus acidus - Otaheite Gooseberry, Amlak - is very close related to the famous Phyllanthus emblica (Amla, Amlaki), however it is much hardier plant.
  • Known as Amritphala in Sanskrit, which literally means the fruit of heaven or nectar fruit. It is so called because it is rich in many desirable properties, including medicinal.
  • Small to medium in size tree, under 20 feet, very bushy and pretty.
  • Fruits are borne in loose clusters, which hang from the tree trunk and main branches. Fruits are very acidic and tart, and esteemed for jellies, preserves and pastries.
  • There are no commercial plantings; only in home gardens.
  • The Amla fruit paste is a major ingredient of Chavyanprash, a popular Ayurvedic tonic. It is the richest source of vitamin C. Phyllanthus acidus is called Ari Nelli in Tamil, and the Phyllanthus emblica (Amlaki) is Muzhu Nelli in Tamil. Muzhu Nelli is even richer in Vitamin C etc.


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How to make sour taste sweet and what causes the miracle? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to make sour taste sweet and what causes the miracle?

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

🍋 🎂 How to make sour taste sweet and what causes the miracle?
  • 🍭Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum - is one of the strangest tropical fruit that makes sour taste sweet!
  • 🍭 The miracle is that if lemon or other sour food is eaten after the miracle fruit, the sour tastes sweet, as if sugar has been added. That kind of magical experience is unforgettable!
  • 🍭 A natural chemical in the fruit masks the tongue sour taste buds so that lemons taste like lemonade or lemon pie, or lemon candy! The sweet sensation lasts for half an hour to a few hours.
  • 🍭 Miracle fruit berries are valued as a food supplement for chemo-therapy patients to improve the taste of food.
  • 🍭 This small, evergreen shrub grows very slowly to a height of 4-6 ft in container, and 6-10 ft in natural habitat. A 10 years old plant might be easily only 4-5 feet tall. It forms an oval to pyramidal shaped bush or small tree.
  • 🍭 Miracle fruit is a small compact bush, and can be a rewarding indoor plant. It can be grown in a 1-3 gal pot and produce most of the year. Seed to fruit in 2 to 3 years. Flower to fruit in 30 to 45 days.


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What is the most aromatic medicinal herb. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the most aromatic medicinal herb

Lippia alba - Poleo, Pitiona

Lippia alba - Poleo, Pitiona

What is the most aromatic medicinal herb
  • 💮 Lippia alba - Poleo, Pitiona: this medicinal plant related to Lantana is widely cultivated in Mexico as an ornamental for its aromatic foliage and pretty white flowers.
  • 💮 The essential oil composition is unique to each plant!
  • 💮 The leaves are used for flavoring foods, such as mole sauces from Oaxaca, Mexico.
  • 💮 The plant is used medicinally for its somatic, sedative, antidepressant, and analgesic properties.
  • 💮 Leaves and roots are used to make tea or syrup for cough relief and are said to relieve symptoms from anxiety to flatulence and hypertension.


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Why Strawberry Tree is called Cotton Candy. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why Strawberry Tree is called Cotton Candy

Strawberry Tree, Cotton Candy (Muntingia calabura)

🍭 Why Strawberry Tree is called Cotton Candy
  • 🍓The Strawberry Tree, also known as Cotton Candy (Muntingia calabura), is a fruit lover's dream!
  • 🍓 Its pretty white flowers resemble those of a strawberry plant, giving it its name. The fruits are super sweet, with no acidity, earning it the "Cotton Candy" nickname.
  • 🍓 This fast-growing tree is incredibly rewarding, producing two crops a day from spring to fall!
  • 🍓 It’s easy to grow, drought-tolerant, and fruits right away even in containers - just watch out for frost if you're outside the tropics.


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Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:

Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)

Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#10. Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)

Peanut Butter Tree, earns its name from its fleshy fruits that boast a delightful peanut butter flavor. Compact in size, small tree reaching only 10-15 ft or kept as a bush, it's a perfect choice for limited spaces. Can thrive indoors, starting to fruit within just 2-3 years from seed.

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Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:

Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)

Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#9. Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)

🖤 Blackberry Jam Fruit, Jasmin de Rosa is a curious small evergreen tree or bush that combines features of a fragrant flower and delicious dessert fruit which tastes like fresh Blackberry jam. Fragrant white flowers are similar to Gardenia.

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Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:

Carambola - Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)

Carambola - Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)

⭐️ Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#8. Carambola - Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)

💛 Growing Carambola tree is a fun and rewarding way to enjoy this unique star-shaped delicious fruit right at home. It fruits on the 3d year from seed. The tree is easy to grow and reliable producer, providing wind protection.

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