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📖 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

#Edible_Forest #Fun_Facts #Recipes

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🎨 "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!

🛒 Order online

#Quotes #Butterfly_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits

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Cat of the Day - Marco

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🐈 Cat of the Day - Marco.

Marco loves unusual spots. But regardless of a position, he always looks comfortable. Stay content and comfy tonight! 🌜

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Why this Akee taste of deliciousness always follows me?

🥘 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

#Food_Forest #Nature_Wonders #Recipes #Fun_Facts

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Top Tropicals is now in Telegram!

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Welcome to our new Telegram Channel!
We finally did it, and excited to connect with all of you on this amazing platform. After using Telegram for a few years for both business and personal communications, we realized it is a winner of the modern Social Media!

In Top Tropicals Telegram Channel you will find much more than on our website or Newsletter: Fun Plant Facts, Nature Wonders, Amazing Plant Videos, Gardening How-to Tips, Exotic Recipes, Contests, Sweepstakes, Give-aways and so much more. Plus, of course, your favorite PeopleCats!

Telegram is a messaging app with a focus on speed and security, it’s super-fast, simple and free. You can use Telegram on all your devices at the same time - your messages sync seamlessly across any number of your phones, tablets or computers. It's perfect for sharing your comments, photos, videos, even making calls.

You can watch news, browse your interest, message to friends and colleagues, save your files, create groups, make phone calls, and the most amazing thing - Telegram works where nothing else works, no WiFi or cell service! It proved to be more reliable than any other apps and (surprise!) even works in airplane without wifi connection - proved!

The platform has its own cloud and offers limitless storage. And the last and not least - it's ad-free! Telegram is free and will stay free - no ads, no subscription fees, forever. It's a clean, clear and easy to use for all ages and applications. Try it yourself and discover how easy and pain-free it is!

Telegram is for everyone who wants fast and reliable messaging and calls.
See you in Telegram!

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Enter to Win Dwarf Ylang Ylang!

Win Dwarf Ylang Ylang

This is your chance to win a rare, expensive plant that everyone wants but not always can afford -

Dwarf Ylang Ylang - Chanel No5 Tree
(Cananga fruticosa)
$79.95 Value + FREE shipping

yes, delivered to your door absolutely FREE!

How to become a winner? It's very simple. Just go to our new Telegram Chanel and make your entry! It takes just one click and nothing else!
The winner will be selected by automatic Randomizer Wheel and the process of spin and pick will be broadcasted in our Channel.

Rules and terms:

1. Must be our Channel subscriber: simply click JOIN
2. Every player enters a number in comments to the Post: 1,2,3... and so on, in a row.
3. All numbers will participate in the Spin (for example, if we have 123 participants, all numbers between 1 and 123 will be run by the Wheel). The Randomizer Wheel will select the Winner's number.
4. Delivery - USA addresses only.
5. Deadline - May 1, 2024 at 3 pm, and we will run the Wheel.
6. No purchase necessary to enter or win (see full rules PDF)

Good Luck!

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Three tropical plants that help you to stay young

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🌱 Three tropical plants that help you to stay young.
  1. 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 🥣
  2. 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.
  3. 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).


⚕️ Discover more medicinal plants

#Food_Forest #Remedies

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

💮 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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#Perfume_Plants #Container_Garden

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How to keep weeds away?

How to keep weeds away?
☘️ How to keep weeds away?

"Give a weed an inch and it’ll take a yard...."

Hot season started, and so did the weed season!

💚 Ways to keep your yard weed-free without use of herbicide:
  1. Mulch, mulch, mulch
  2. Cover the area with cardboard (still getting those Amazon boxes?) and put mulch, mulch, mulch on top.
  3. Plant dense ground cover plants! Weeds will lose competition for food and light.


  4. 🎥 Did you know that Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) makes not only a trellis/fence solution, but also a dense fragrant ground cover? It's not demanding, fast growing, drought tolerant plant, takes full sun or shade. Sweet, deliciously fragrant flowers is a pleasant bonus!

    🛒Get your fragrant ground cover

    #How_to #Perfume_Plants

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Cat of the Day - George

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🐈 Cat of the Day - George.

George is a completely black cat - this kind brings good luck. He is wishing you a lucky day tomorrow and a good rest tonight. 🌜

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