Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Mucuna sloanei - Yellow Jade Vine or Hamburger Bean

Mucuna sloanei - Yellow Jade Vine or Hamburger Bean seeds

Mucuna sloanei - Yellow Jade Vine or Hamburger Bean flower

🍔 Hamburger Bean: how to cover a fence fast with an exotic vine: Jade Vine here.

🟡 Mucuna sloanei - Yellow Jade Vine or Hamburger Bean. You saw the Sea-Green Jade vine in our earlier post. This one is lemon yellow.
🟡 It is much more hardier than the Sea-Green variety and is super fast growing!
🟡 This is a high-climbing woody vine native to rain forests of South America.
🟡 It has long, rope-like stalks hanging below the forest canopy where night-flying bats can easily access the fragrant blossoms.
🟡 The name Brown Hamburger Bean is because of the beautiful seeds (looking like little hamburgers) that are often collected and polished by natives and made into lovely necklaces and bracelets.

Oncoba spinosa - Fried egg tree

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Allamanda x violacea Cabernet - Wine Red Allamanda

Pachira aquatica (Bombax glabra) - Malabar Peanut or Guiana Chestnut

Dombeya seminole - Tropical Rose Hydrangea

Papaya fruit

Papaya tree with fruit

Papaya fruit

Papaya trees

🍊 The truth about Papaya:
1) it is grass, and
2) it can go transgender!
The secret facts of Papaya's private life.

📌 Did you know that Papaya technically is not a tree? It is a large herbaceous plant, usually with a single, straight trunk that can reach 30 feet!
📌 Many dwarf varieties available in selection, reaching only 6-8 ft tall, but producing large crops of full size fruit - they are easy to harvest.
📌 Papaya trees have very complex gender mechanism, but the bottom line is - the tree can chance its sex based on conditions! Many varieties are self-fertile, but it always recommended to plant a few trees for cross-pollination and better yield.
📌 The sweetest Papaya is from so called "Solo" cultivars: the fruit is usually round or oval, on a smaller side, but super sweet.
📌 Fruit from Solo cultivars are not susceptible to fruit flies.
📌 Being officially a tropical plant, Papaya is pretty cold resistant and can withstand light freeze without significant damage.
📌 Surprisingly, Papayas are also hurricane-resistant plants and can take strong winds without damage. They still stand when other trees are down!
📌 Papaya is one of the Super-Foods thanks to papain - a natural enzyme containing in this fruit. Papaya fruit offers the best digestive aid! Eat some papaya after each meal to maintain healthy digestion.
📌 Try papaya leaf wraps for cooking meats - you won't need a meat tenderizer!
📌 Easy to grow trees, Papayas don't take any space in the garden, but bring so much goodness into your life!