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Date: 30 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is the biggest Gardenia flower? Tahitian Gardenia is as big as your hand!

Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent"

✋ What is the biggest Gardenia flower? Tahitian Gardenia is as big as your hand!

💮 Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent" has a double flower up to 6" in diameter!
💮 This hybrid is very rare and hard to find.
💮 The intoxicating sweet fragrant blossoms are creamy white works of art.
💮 Huge double flowers up to 5-6" in diameter and large glossy oval leaves.
💮 Perfect container plant

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Date: 29 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Fun Fact: King Anthurium

Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium

👑 Fun Fact: King Anthurium

🔖 Crowning its title, Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium - boasts leaves up to 3 feet long! Majestic houseplant! Very hard to find, rare plant.

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Date: 28 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why Champaka tree is such a popular perfume tree

Joy Perfume tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

🏆 Why Champaka tree is such a popular perfume tree

🏵 The flowers from Champaka, or Joy Perfume 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. The flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women.
🏵 The tree is very compact for both landscapes and containers. It has bushy, yet columnar shape. Can be grown in container with minimal pruning.
🏵 Blooms on and off several times a year. Relatively cold hardy, but requires regular watering.

🎥 Yellow Champaka in bloom. This tree is 3 years old.

📚 Learn more from previous posts:
Flower of the most expensive perfume
White Champaka
Article about Champaka

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Date: 28 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Fun Fact: Voodoo Lily

Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily plant

Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily, flower

😈 Fun Fact: Voodoo Lily

👹 Amorphophallus konjak - Voodoo Lily, blooms from a single corm and releases an unforgettable scent, often compared to rotting meat. Despite its bizarre appearance and smell (that only lasts one day!), it's a showstopper that can easily be grown as a houseplant.

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Date: 25 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom

🌚 When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom

Tacca Lily - has been in bloom all summer, on an off.
Curious, bat-like inflorescence both in shape and color, with wide spreading, wing-like bracts of rich maroon-black, accompanied by long trailing filaments or "whiskers".
Perfect container plant for a greenhouse. Needs filtered light, prefers high humidity.
Comes in different species and colors: Black, White, Green:

Tacca nivea - White Tacca
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca

📚 Learn more from previous post:
Bat Head - Devil Flower

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Date: 25 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom

Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca

🌚 When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom

Tacca Lily - has been in bloom all summer, on an off.
Curious, bat-like inflorescence both in shape and color, with wide spreading, wing-like bracts of rich maroon-black, accompanied by long trailing filaments or "whiskers".
Perfect container plant for a greenhouse. Needs filtered light, prefers high humidity.
Comes in different species and colors: Black, White, Green:

Date: 23 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What tree to plant for wonderful fragrance?

Magnolia (Michelia) champaca x Alba

💄 What tree to plant for wonderful fragrance?

🏵 Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree is in full bloom in our garden (in the video: var. Alba). The fragrance is smelled yards away! It is filling the air around.
🏵 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, its 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!

📚 See earlier post about Champaka Tree

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Date: 22 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What flower is sweeter than any Jasmine

💥 What flower is sweeter than any Jasmine

🌸 Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense: absolutely NEW perfume plant! It is becoming one of the most wanted in rare fragrant plant market.
🌸 This amazing flower was originally obtained in Thailand.
🌸 Beautiful striped red-and-white flowers are highly fragrant. Fragrance is the most intense you can imagine and is much better than all jasmines and gardenias all together.
🌸 The plant is very similar to plumeria in growth habit (and is close related to Plumeria). It grows into a small tree. Unlike Plumeria, it is evergreen in warm climate.
🌸 Beautiful mauve colored leaves are very ornamental.
🌸 Slow growing, compact plant, great for containers. Very undemanding and has low water needs.

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Date: 22 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What flower is sweeter than any Jasmine

Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense

💥 What flower is sweeter than any Jasmine

🌸 Cerbera x manghas - Enchanted Incense: absolutely NEW perfume plant! It is becoming one of the most wanted in rare fragrant plant market.
🌸 This amazing flower was originally obtained in Thailand.
🌸 Beautiful striped red-and-white flowers are highly fragrant. Fragrance is the most intense you can imagine and is much better than all jasmines and gardenias all together.
🌸 The plant is very similar to plumeria in growth habit (and is close related to Plumeria). It grows into a small tree. Unlike Plumeria, it is evergreen in warm climate.
🌸 Beautiful mauve colored leaves are very ornamental.
🌸 Slow growing, compact plant, great for containers. Very undemanding and has low water needs.

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Date: 22 Aug 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What flower looks plastic

Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, flower

Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, fruit with seeds

Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, fruit

What flower looks plastic... or ceramic?

🔥 #Fun_Facts: Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple is a delightful small tree native to America with flowers looking just like they are made of porcelain! Gorgeous pink flowers with mauve throats look almost artificial. The tree happily blooms in shade, and the fruit resembles a small apple and is enjoyed by birds and wildlife. Very undemanding plant.

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