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How many buttons in this ballistic mattress??? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant

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A sleeping cat. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

A sleeping cat

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How to make tasty Carambola Banana Whip. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Carambola Banana Whip

Carambola Banana Whip

Carambola

Carambola

Banana

Banana

🍹 How to make tasty Carambola Banana Whip
  • ✔️ 1 ripe Carambola
  • ✔️ 3 ripe Bananas
  • ✔️ 1 tbsp Honey
  • ✔️ 1/2 tsp Cocoa (optional)


Blend ingredients until smooth. Scoop into frosted mugs. Garnish with Carambola and Banana slices.

🍷 Enjoy while cold ❄️

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What is better - Blue or Pink? You need both! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Blue Butterfly Bush (Clerodendrum ugandense)

Blue Butterfly Bush (Clerodendrum ugandense)

Pink Butterfly Bush (Clerodendrum mastacanthum)

Pink Butterfly Bush (Clerodendrum mastacanthum)

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Knowing your own darkness. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Knowing your own darkness

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What is the Secret of Longevity? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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Why Poinciana is super popular tropical flowering tree. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why Poinciana is super popular tropical flowering tree Why Poinciana is super popular tropical flowering tree

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Why Poinciana is super popular tropical flowering tree. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Peltophorum - Golden Flamboyant, Yellow Poinciana

Peltophorum - Golden Flamboyant, Yellow Poinciana

Peltophorum - Golden Flamboyant, Yellow Poinciana

Peltophorum - Golden Flamboyant, Yellow Poinciana

Peltophorum - Golden Flamboyant, Yellow Poinciana

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Any childless cat ladies here? Report for duty: A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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Five most exotic avocado varieties. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Avocado Bacon

Avocado Bacon

Avocado Black Prince

Avocado Black Prince

Avocado Mexicola

Avocado Mexicola

Avocado Reed

Avocado Reed

Avocado Russel (red)

Avocado Russel (red)

Five most exotic avocado varieties

👀 We introduced 10 most popular varieties in our earlier posts. Here are 5 more - interesting and unusual cultivars.

1. Bacon - A large Mexican variety with dark-skinned medium sized fruits, and a rich creamy flavor. It is very cold hardy, late-producing variety of Avocado tree with exceptional fruit. It is a highly productive tree with a lovely upright and spreading habit. Its dark green, glossy leaves lend an attractive, tropical appeal to the 15-20 feet of heigh. The oval fruits ripen in late fall and into spring. The fruits are easy to peel and have a light, subtle flavor. The tree has angelic sweeping branches which helps keep the tree shorter and easier to pick its fruit.

2. Black Prince - The fruit was large, oval, 16-36 oz, green and slightly pebbly. The fruit turns black couple days after it is picked, ripens and softens. Black Prince deserves its title! The fruit pulp is thick, and has a rich, nutty flavor. The trees grow vigorously. Superior variety for a backyard grower. Harvesting mid-August to mid-September.

3. Mexicola - black fruit, rich butter content, one of the most cold hardy varieties. Mature trees may withstand temperatures in the low-mid 20s.

4. Reed - The fruit is large, weighing over a pound and round in shape. It has a large seed, but plenty of edible flesh. The skin remains green even when ripe. It is described by some as the best tasting avocado, buttery, bold, rich and nutty with an oil content of about 20%. It is a type A avocado, but fruits consistently year after year without other avocado trees around. It can be kept to around 15 feet with pruning. The branches do tend to droop horizontally.

5. Russel (green and red) - easily recognized by its gourd-like shape, large, 24-36 oz and up to 13 inches long! Flesh is yellow, sweet, excellent quality, the seed is small.

📚 Learn more: Avocado Variety Guide - check this out for interactive chart of Avocado varieties and sort them by flower type A or B, tree habit, fruit shape and quality, cold hardiness, origin, season and more!

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