🦔 What is this spiny Hedgehog fruit and how does it taste?

👀 This is one of the coolest looking tropical fruit!

Annona montana - Mountain Soursop or Hedgehog Annona. It is also called Wild Custard Apple, Guanabana de Monte, or Wild Soursop.

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  📍 This fruit is prized for its deliciously sweet and tangy fruit, reminiscent of a blend between pineapple and strawberry. It tastes similar to regular Soursop (or Guanabana), with slightly milder flavor. The pulp is highly scented.
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  📍 The fruit, up to a pound, has the most unusual looks! Just look at these curious Hedgehog spines! 🦔
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  📍 The tree is medium sized, with beautiful, large, leathery dark green leaves that emit a strong aroma when crushed.
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  📍 Mountain Soursop is much more cold hardy than the Soursop, established trees can take some frost, down to 24F when full grown.
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  📍 Trees produce within just 2-3 years from seed, like many Annonas, and can happily grow and produce in a large container.

👨�‍👧 We guarantee that everyone who sees this fruit in your garden will ask for seeds even before they taste the fruit! And you will have lots of seeds to share because Mountain Soursop is very reliable producer with many seeds in each fruit.

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♥️ What is the most spectacular flowering shrub?

🔥 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, or Bird of Paradise - is one of the most beautiful flowering shrubs. It is a low-maintenance yet visually striking plant to enhance outdoor spaces.

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  ♦️ Prized for its stunning, vibrant flowers that resemble miniature versions of tropical flamboyant blooms.
• ♦️ Compact size
• ♦️ Easy to care of
• ♦️ Prolific blooming period
• ♦️ Resilience to heat and drought
• ♦️ Red, Yellow, and Pink flowering varieties available.

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🐈 Cat of the Day - Shaka

One day a feral cat had given birth to a kitten on our front porch, but the mother had left and not returned...
Find out what happened next... a happy ending! Good night.🌜

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💗 The fragrance no one can resist!

• 🐝 🍯 Lonicera japonica - Japanese Honeysuckle

• 🟠 The enchanting fragrance of the Honeysuckle is sweet and captivating, it has a universal appeal that everyone loves.
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  🟠 The alluring scent can evoke nostalgic memories and create a sense of tranquility, making it irresistible to anyone.
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  🟠 Honeysuckle is cherished for its fragrant, tubular flowers that attract pollinators like bees and butterflies, adding vibrancy to gardens. 🐞🦋🐝
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  🟠 Its vigorous growth and ability to climb make it ideal for covering walls, fences, or arbors, providing both beauty and privacy.
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  🟠 One of the garden favorites! Its resilience and adaptability to various climates make it a versatile and enduring choice for gardeners worldwide.

🌡 This is a cold hardy tropical, can take some freeze once established.

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🍊 Why exotic Mamey fruit is so much wanted?

Pouteria sapota, or Mamey Sapote - is Cuban favorite. It is considered by Cubans to produce the best fruit in the world.

🍹 The fruit has delicious bright orange soft flesh, sweet and pumpkin-like in flavor. The Mamey fruit is eaten fresh, in milk shakes and ice cream.

👀 Mamey has a curious growth habit: flowers emerge in clusters in the axils of fallen leaves along the branches, followed by the showy fruit. This is called cauliflorous - plants that flower and fruit from their main stems or woody trunks. Other examples are Cucumber tree and Jaboticaba.

🌳 Mamey is a slow growing, compact tree, but needs some space to spread the branches. It normally grows 20 ft in height and 20 ft wide.

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🌺 Have you ever seen a hibiscus like that? This flower will blow your mind! 👀

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  💀 Hibiscus schizopetalus - Skeleton Hibiscus, or Coral Hibiscus - earns its nickname due to the delicate, lacy appearance of its flowers. The Latin word schizopetalus literally means "crazy petals"! Flowers look like parachutes, with lacy petals bent backward. The petals are thin and elongated, resembling the intricate structure of a skeleton or bones! 💀

• ♦️ When the flowers bloom, they create a beautiful, ethereal effect, which has led to the association with the term "skeleton." This unique characteristic sets it apart from other hibiscus varieties, hence the distinctive moniker.
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  ♦️ Spectacular weeping tree shape, it has slender and gracefully curved stems.
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  ♦️ Rare and hard to find.
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  ♦️ Grows rapidly and blooms freely.
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  ♦️ Can be trained into a showy standard.

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🐈 Cat of the Day - Ricki

Find yourself a comfortable spot like Ricki did - he likes hanging out on a grill. Cool or hot, it's all good. Good night.🌜

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🎶 Why they call this Clerodendrum Musical Notes?

Clerodendrum incisum - Musical Note, Morning Kiss - has very unusual and showy flowers.

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  ♪ The unopened flowers resemble musical notes, giving the plant its name.
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  ♪ A compact grower and low-maintenance plant, perfect for gardens as it blooms well in both full sun and shade, and tolerates some drought ☀️☁️ .
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  ♪ It attracts butterflies and hummingbirds, making it a great choice for people who want to encourage wildlife in their gardens

🦋🦜🐞🐝.

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🍇 If you are missing Northern fruit that don't tolerate hot climate, here is the answer - Mysore Raspberry thrives in heat!

🇮🇳 Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus) is from India.

• 🔹 Unlike common raspberries from up North that can not tolerate heat, Mysore Raspberry grows very well in hot humid climates.
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  🔹 Grows very fast into a scrambling shrub with flexible stems.
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  🔹 Blooms and fruits throughout the year.
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  🔹 The fruit turns purple black when ripe, it is very juicy and sweet.
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  🔹 One cluster may contain as many as couple dozen fruit.
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  🔹 Great for large containers and will produce large amounts of fruit.
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  🔹 Cold hardy to upper 20s F.

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🍇 Number one Sweet Raspberry for your dessert! For the previous post👆

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