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Date: 30 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper

🌶 Hot-hot-hot HEART! Yet so tasty and flavorful! How hot is it, really?

🔥 Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper ❤️-shaped!

❤️ An exceptionally distinct pepper, an ancient hybrid of Capsicum annuum (bird pepper) and Capsicum chinense (habanero group).
❤️ While of small size (1"), these heart-shaped red fruits are prolifically produced along the branches of compact plants.
❤️ Extremely showy, ornamental peppers with culinary benefits. Great for container garden.
❤️ What separates this variety from others is its unique intense fruity habanero flavor which packs quite a bang! 💥
❤️ For abundant crops, fertilizer with Sunshine C-Cibus plant booster.

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Date: 25 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent"

💮 What size can be a flower of Gardenia? Look at the crazy size of this Tahitian Gardenia flower! As big as my hand! ✋ 😳

Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent" with 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: 24 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

DWARF June plum, Ambarella (Spondias cytherea)

🍈 How June plum can "fruit itself to death": look at this heavy load!

This exciting fruit tree will amaze you with its ability to fruit abundantly at a young age and small size. This is a DWARF variety of June plum, or Ambarella (Spondias cytherea).

✳️ Grows as a compact 6-7 ft tree.
✳️ Very aromatic fruit, Its feel and juiciness resembles that of a mango (it's Mango's close relative) but with completely different, delicious flavor.
✳️ Expect heavy fruit production within a year. Starts fruiting in winter and holds the fruit up to 6-8 months and more.
✳️ Perfect containerDWARF variety of June plum, or Ambarella (Spondias cytherea). fruit tree.

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Date: 24 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet

💐 What plant is fragrant, easy and fast growing? Cashmere Bouquet!

Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet.

🌸 Need a fast growing, spreading shrub for privacy? Cashmere bouquet is a shrub with benefits - the flowers are beautiful and sweetly fragrant.

Also ideal for the container grown patio plant.

Attracts butterflies to the large flower trusses.

🌡 Hardy to zone 8.

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Date: 23 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, Chanel No5 Tree

⚜️ What is the best perfume tree for container culture? Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree!

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, or Chanel No5 Tree - is the most desired and sought after perfume plants.

🔅 Elegant pendant flowers are a piece of art.
🔅 Easy to grow, stays compact and in nice tree-like shape. Flowers smell as great as full size Ylang Ylang tree.
🔅 Needs warm and humid conditions for a full aroma.
🔅 Perfect container plantand a house plant, but keep in mind it requires bright light for profuse flowering.

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Date: 22 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

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

Calathea zebrina - Zebra Plant

🌿 When you need an easy plant for a shady spot, Calathea zebrina is a winner!

Calathea zebrina - Zebra Plant - is an absolute winner for your shade garden. It's very easy to establish, fast growing and always happy - as long as you water it💧

✅ Great plant for beginners, Zebra Plant won't disappoint you!

It's a large and vigorous Calathea, beautiful velvety leaves have dark green stripes, like Zebra stripes

The underside of the leaves is purple and not always visible right away because leaves grow horizontally.

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Date: 20 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Starfish Flower (Stapelia gigantea), Carrion plant, Zulu Giant.

🌟 What is the most bizarre flower? Starfish Flower (Stapelia gigantea), Carrion plant, or Zulu Giant.

✴️ Large, up to 12" wide flowers in shape of Star Fish.
✴️ Another name Carrion refers to its unique scent, similar to rotting meat. Oddly enough, pollinating flies can't resist it
✴️ The plant looks like a cactus, but it's really not, belonging to Milkweed family.
✴️ Makes a stunning container plant and a conversation piece!

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Date: 20 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Malpighia Nana - Dwarf Barbados Cherry

🍒 How to get Barbados Cherry Mini Version. Still equal to 65 oranges in Vitamin C!

Malpighia Nana - Dwarf Barbados Cherry, is a cute dense shrub that some garden enthusiasts grow as a bonsai, but not everyone knows that its fruit are not only edible, but much sweeter than regular Barbados Cherry we showed you earlier.

Dwarf Barbados Cherry is perfect exotic fruit that you can grow even on a windowsill!

📚 Growing Barbados Cherry in container

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Date: 20 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

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.

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