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New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties

New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties
New Complete Guide to Avocado Varieties. How to choose the right type of Avocado.
How many varieties of Avocado are there in cultivation? Did you know that there are hundreds of them? You probably thought there were only 2 kinds - black and green?

You may not realize is that this basic (but practical!) classification doesn't encompass all the wonderful qualities avocados have to offer.

There are numerous hybrids in cultivation, and once you plant your first tree and taste the REAL fruit (not from the grocery store), you'll be eager to explore other varieties. It's a guarantee! While it's true that avocado fruit can vary in "butter" content, most superior varieties are equally delicious.

This Avocado Variety Guide helps to choose the right variety for you. With its interactive tool, you can sort cultivars by fruit shape and quality, cold hardiness, origin, crop season, flower type A or B, tree habit and more.

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Fun Fact: Bleeding Heart Vine. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Fun Fact: Bleeding Heart Vine

Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae)

Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae)

Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae)

Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae)

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.


🛒Get your own Bleeding Heart

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What is the flower of the most expensive perfume? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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 - white flower Alba

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

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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Brown thumb? No problem. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Brown thumb? No problem

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

👍🏾 Brown thumb? No problem. This is how to get an indestructible massive indoor plant that is easier than a plastic plant!

🌿 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...

😵 It is an indoor miracle!

🛒 Get the plant no one can kill

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Fun Facts: Cacao beans. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Fun Facts: Cacao beans

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

Cacao Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao)

📖 Fun Facts: Cacao beans (Theobroma cacao) were used to make chocolate, and the ancient Maya and Aztec civilizations valued cacao beans as currency 💰 Can we use chocolate as money?
  • 🍫 Chocolate tree has large dark green leaves that shade the fruit pods which grow directly from the trunk and branches.
  • 🍫 The flesh of the fruit is eaten as a dessert, and the seeds are the raw material of chocolate. Hot chocolate can be made by drying the seeds, roasting, grinding, and adding milk.
  • 🍫 This exotic rare tree makes a gem of a houseplant collection.


🛒Get your own Chocolate Tree

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Why this Akee taste of deliciousness always follows me? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why this Akee taste of deliciousness always follows me?

Akee fruit, Ackee

Why this Akee taste of deliciousness always follows me? Definitely the favorite fruit (it's actually a vegetable).

Can't wait for the next crop this year 😼

📖 Fun Fact: Ackee is the national fruit of Jamaica and is a key ingredient in the traditional Jamaican dish, ackee and saltfish. However, it must be properly ripened and cooked due to its toxic properties when unripe.

‼️ Check out our previous post about Akee.

📚 More about Akee

🎥 YouTube Recipe: How to cook perfect Akee?

🛒 Grow your own Akee tree

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What fruit contains 65 times more of vitamin C than an orange? Now you know - it's Barbados Cherry. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What fruit contains 65 times more of vitamin C than an orange? Now you know - its Barbados Cherry

Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra)

🍒 What fruit contains 65 times more of vitamin C than an orange? Now you know - it's Barbados Cherry

Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra) fruit has a vitamin C content up to 65 times that of an orange! A single fruit contains the minimum daily recommended vitamin C requirements, as well as vitamins A, B1, B2, and B3, carotenoids and bioflavonoids - great antioxidants.

If you are looing for a compact, but fast growing tree with colorful fruit that starts fruiting right away - plant Barbados Cherry. It will also happily fruit in containers.

📚 Learn more about Barbados Cherry

🛒 Order Barbados Cherry Tree Online

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What is the bluest flower of the Tropics? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower

What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?

Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, or Lead Flower is brightest gentian blue - very unusual color in the tropics!
  • 💙 Winter heavy bloomer
  • 💙 Attracts butterflies and bees 🐝
  • 💙 Compact shrub, responds well to pruning.
  • 💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!


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Tamarind. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Tamarind

Tamarind fruit - Tamarinus indica

Tamarind fruit - Tamarinus indica

Tamarind fruit - Tamarinus indica

Tamarind fruit - Tamarinus indica

Tamarind flowers - Tamarinus indica

Tamarind flowers - Tamarinus indica

📖 Fun Fact: Tamarind is used as a souring agent in many cuisines around the world, adding a tangy flavor to dishes. How to use Tamarind in cooking?

🍲 Tamarind Chutney Recipe

Ingredients:
  • · 1 cup tamarind pulp
  • · 1 cup water
  • · 3/4 cup brown sugar or jaggery
  • · 1 tsp each of ground cumin, ginger, and coriander
  • · 1/2 tsp red chili powder
  • · Salt to taste


    • Instructions:
  • · Simmer tamarind pulp and water.
  • · Strain, return to heat, and add sugar.
  • · Stir in spices and salt.
  • · Simmer until thickened.
  • · Cool and store in the refrigerator.


🛒Grow your own Tamarind Tree

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Fun Fact: Papayas contain an enzyme called papain, which is commonly used as a meat tenderizer, now you know what the secret is! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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)

Papaya (Carica papaya)

Papaya (Carica papaya)

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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