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Date: 2 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Fun Fact: Bleeding Heart Vine

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.

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Date: 1 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?

Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)

Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?

You already saw one unusual blue flower of Tropics - Lead Flower. This one is even more interesting!

👄 Mazabuka, or Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus) has mauve-blue, unusually lipped flowers that are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!

💙 Blue Lips create a pretty floral display on this shade-loving shrub with its attractive glossy green foliage.
💙 Flowers are mauve-blue to purple and the lower petals are ribbed, giving the impression of lips, hence the common name.
💙 Five fringed lobes, equal in size, short and rounded, are the flowers distinguishing feature.
💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!

🐝🐦 The numerous flowers produced in summer are attractive to pollinating insects which encourage insect-feeding birds into the garden.

📚 Learn more: Surprising Violet fragrance of the Blue Lips

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Date: 30 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Its not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? Its one of the most beautiful Florida trees

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia

🌸 It's not a cherry blossom! What is this pink-flowered beauty? It's one of the most beautiful Florida trees...

Tabebuia impetiginosa - Dwarf Pink Tabebuia, is a spectacular Winter-Spring bloomer!

♦️ Nice landscape tree, compact and fits small yards.
♦️Beautiful bright pink flowers with yellow throats, covering the tree before new leaves appear.
♦️ Winter bloomer - great choice with snow birds who stay in Florida in winter and want to see some flowers.
♦️ More tabebuia varieties exist with yellow, white, purple flowers.

❄️ Tabebuia is a cold hardy tropical, at least to upper 20's. Grows well in Central Florida.

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Date: 29 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to grow the biggest fruit on Earth

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)

🍐 How to grow the biggest fruit on Earth.

Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is one of the most fascinating tropical fruit, as we showed earlier.

👉 In spite of reputation being ultra tropical, the tree is not as cold sensitive as everyone believes. Mature trees can withstand light frost for a few hours without significant damage. Keeping Jackfruit in a pot is also an option in colder areas.
👉 The fruit is so large and heavy that the tree has a smart feature to produce only at the base of the trunk. This makes it possible to keep Jackfruit tree at very short height - 6-7 ft tall. It can be grown in containers considering regular topping/pruning.

🔻 Secrets of Jackfruit successful production:

📍 Frost free temperatures
📍 Soil rich of organic matter (compost, manure, peat moss)
📍 Moist soil and regular watering
📍 Constant pruning and keeping under 7-10 ft
📍Regular application of fertilizer, microelements and SUNSHINE-Honey supplement for better quality fruit.

🎥 Videos: of the fruit and of the tree

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Date: 28 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

One of the top 10 most impressive trees on the planet

Royal poinciana, Flamboyant tree, Delonix regia

💃 One of the top 10 most impressive trees on the planet

✍️ "To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow." - Audrey Hepburn

📷 Royal poinciana, Flamboyant tree, Delonix regia - one of the most popular tropical trees covered with bright red orchid-like flowers from late winter through early summer.

"The Royal Poinciana is one of the most spectacular flowering trees in the USA, and probably among the top 10 on this planet. In full bloom, it is like a regal elephant caparisoned in red and yellow brilliance."
(Larry M. Schokman, The Kampong, National Tropical Botanic Garden)

🛒Grow your own Royal Poinciana

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Date: 27 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

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Date: 26 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana

🎨 "Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." - Elizabeth Murray

❓ Why is it called a Peacock Flower? See yourself...

📷 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Red Dwarf Poinciana, Bird of Paradise, Pride of Barbados, Peacock flower...

One of the most spectacular tropical bloomers. An eye-stopper!

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Date: 25 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Three tropical plants that help you to stay young

Longevity Spinach - Gynura

Amlak, Otaheite Gooseberry fruit

Noni fruit

🌱 Three tropical plants that help you to stay young.

Longevity Spinach - as the name suggests, this is one of the superfoods, and it lowers cholesterol. The leaves and young shoot tips can be used fresh in salads, steamed, used in stir fry, stews, and soups. Just add them at the very end. Recipes here 🥣
Amlak, or Otaheite Gooseberry - fruit is a major ingredient of Chavyanprash, a popular Ayurvedic tonic. It is the richest source of vitamin C. Makes a perfect lemonade.
Noni - a world-famous medicinal fruit. The noni juice works on a cellular level and rejuvenates nearly every system in the body. Large leaves, very tropical look, quick to fruit... This is a perfect tree for container and indoors. PDF: Noni's health benefits (Tropical Treasures Magazine).

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Date: 22 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What orchids can be grown in the ground?

Spathoglottis Tropical Punch - Sorbet Ground Orchid

Epidendrum radicans - Orange Reed Ground Orchid, Sunrise

Spathoglottis Lemon Kiss - Sorbet Ground Orchid

Bletilla striata x formosana Kate - Yokohama Ground orchid

Epidendrum elongatum x radicans - Lavender Reed Ground Orchid

Spathoglottis Rainbow - Sorbet Ground Orchid

Arundina graminifolia - Bamboo Orchid, Bird Ground Orchid

🌸 What orchids can be grown in the ground?

Orchids have a mystique that seems to set them apart from most other flowers... they are elegant and almost unreal in their perfection... But not every gardener has luck growing traditional orchids.

⚜️ Terrestrial orchids (a.k.a. ground orchids) grow in regular garden soil instead of in the air on tree branches!
⚜️ Ground orchids come in many colors and shapes.
⚜️ Ground orchids will be happy to bloom in sun or shade and are very easy to grow!

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Date: 21 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to make exotic fries from beautiful Cassava Tree (Yuca Root, Tapioca)

Cassava Tree (Yuca Root, Tapioca) - Manihot esculenta

🍟 How to make exotic fries from beautiful Cassava Tree (Yuca Root, Tapioca).

▪️ Cassava (Manihot esculenta), also called Yuca Root, Manihot, Tapioca - is an exotic tropical root vegetable plant. The fries are more delicious than any fries you every tried!
▪️ Besides culinary value, it is simply a stunning little tree! Don't be shy to harvest the roots - this plant is easy to regrow from cuttings, so you can have your crops year round.

❗️Don't confuse Yuca Root (Cassava) with Yucca Plant from the Agave family - a no-go in the culinary world - you definitely don't want to cook that up for dinner!

📚 Learn more about Yuca Root

🍲 Cassava Fries Recipe

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