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How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba?

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

 Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

 Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

 Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

 Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

๐Ÿ‡ How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba?

In fact, they are very much alike! Just different species of Myrciaria that has somewhat smaller growth habit, which makes it an excellent container fruit tree! It also is much more productive.
  • ๐Ÿ”ต Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator is a beautiful slow growing tree or shrub. It bears dark purple, almost bluish fruits, with thin, sweet flesh that taste somewhat like sweet grapes.
  • ๐Ÿ”ต Fruits are borne in late Spring or early Fall and usually eaten fresh or used in drinks.
  • ๐Ÿ”ต The plant is little known in cultivation, yet the fruits are of equal or superior quality to regular Jaboticaba that we mentioned earlier. A single bush may produce several thousand fruits!
  • ๐Ÿ”ต Blue Jaboticaba can tolerate light frost when established.


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What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?

Coffee tree in a cup

Coffee tree in a cup

Coffee tree flowers

Coffee tree flowers

Coffee tree in a pot

Coffee tree in a pot

Coffee tree fruit

Coffee tree fruit

โ˜•๏ธ What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?

No doubt about it - it's a Coffee tree!
  • ๐Ÿ”ธ Coffee is the most popular fruit tree suitable for indoors.
  • ๐Ÿ”ธ Coffee is shade loving plant, easy to grow, providing regular water.
  • ๐Ÿ”ธ Coffee grows into a beautiful dark green shrub or small tree.
  • ๐Ÿ”ธ The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related.
  • ๐Ÿ”ธ The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red.
  • ๐Ÿ”ธ The seeds are the actual "coffee beans", they can easily be dried, roasted and ground at home.


๐ŸŽ Coffee is a perfect gift plant and a great indoor container fruit tree.

๐ŸŽฅ Coffee Tree Showcase ยท Grow your own: Free Coffee Everyday

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What is Jaboticaba? It sounds so cool!

Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit

Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit

Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit

Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit on a tree

Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit on a tree

Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit

Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit

๐Ÿ‡ What is Jaboticaba? It sounds so cool!

Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) is the most popular native fruit of Brazil that famous Brazilian Vine La Vino Tinto is made of!๐Ÿท
  • ๐ŸŸฃ Grape-like purple fruit with a thick skin and delicious melting pulp somewhat resembling Northern Black Currant in flavor.
  • ๐ŸŸฃ Trees grow very slowly and due to small leaves and dwarfish growth habit are often used as bonsai. Some old bonsai specimens can fruit.
  • ๐ŸŸฃ Larger specimens are very valuable because it takes Jaboticaba up to 7 years from seed to start fruiting.
  • ๐ŸŸฃ Similar to Mamey, Jaboticaba has cauliflorous fruit - that grow on main stems or woody trunks.
  • ๐ŸŸฃ Jaboticaba is relatively cold hardy, mature trees are taking down to 23 F for short periods without serious damage.


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If you are missing Northern fruit that dont tolerate hot climate, here is the answer -

Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)

Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)

Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)

Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)

Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)

Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)

Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)

๐Ÿ‡ If you are missing Northern fruit that don't tolerate hot climate, here is the answer - Mysore Raspberry thrives in heat!

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus) is from India.
  • ๐Ÿ”น Unlike common raspberries from up North that can not tolerate heat, Mysore Raspberry grows very well in hot humid climates.
  • ๐Ÿ”น Grows very fast into a scrambling shrub with flexible stems.
  • ๐Ÿ”น Blooms and fruits throughout the year.
  • ๐Ÿ”น The fruit turns purple black when ripe, it is very juicy and sweet.
  • ๐Ÿ”น One cluster may contain as many as couple dozen fruit.
  • ๐Ÿ”น Great for large containers and will produce large amounts of fruit.
  • ๐Ÿ”น Cold hardy to upper 20s F.


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

Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)

๐Ÿ‡ Number one Sweet Raspberry for your dessert! For the previous post๐Ÿ‘†

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Can you grow a Crocodile? This is how to grow an Alligator

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern

๐ŸŠ Can you grow a Crocodile? This is how to grow an Alligator...

Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, or Crocodile Fern - is from Australasia.

๐Ÿ‘ฝ Very unusual looking, epiphytic fern with cool alligator-skin looking leaves. The strikingly shaped, light green fronds of the fern form a lovely backdrop to its stunning stiff, leathery, dark green alligator-skin foliage.

Grows to 2-3 ft in height. Grow it as a houseplant, or plant under a tree.

๐ŸŒณ Perfect for shade! Likes a sheltered, semi-shaded location, with no direct sunlight.

๐Ÿ›’ Get your own Alligator

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Why Noni is a superfood?

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree, fruit

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree, fruit

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree, fruit

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree, fruit

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree fruit and flower

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree fruit and flower

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree juice

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree juice

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree

Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree

๐Ÿ’ช Why Noni is a superfood?

We mentioned Noni fruit in our previous post as a fruit that keeps you young.

This beautiful small tree with lush foliage is very undemanding, and can be grown as a houseplant.

What is the secret of Noni power?

Noni juice, derived from the fruit of the Morinda citrifolia tree, has many medicinal effects:
  1. Antioxidant properties: lowering the risk of chronic diseases.
  2. Anti-inflammatory effects: help conditions like arthritis.
  3. Immune system support: immune-boosting due to its high content of vitamin C and other compounds, reducing the risk of infections.
  4. Digestive health: improves digestion and regularity.
  5. Pain relief: joint pain, headaches, and cramps.
  6. Cardiovascular health: lowers cholesterol levels and improves blood circulation
  7. Liver health: protects the liver from damage caused by toxins and free radicals
  8. Anti-cancer properties: may help inhibit the growth of cancer cells
  9. Skin health: soothes irritated skin, promote wound healing

    10 Energy and vitality: boosts energy levels, improves stamina.


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Smells like roses! But not a rose

Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine

Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine

Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine

Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine flowers

Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine flowers

Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine flowers

Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine flowers

๐ŸŒน Smells like roses! But not a rose... What is it? Radermachera Kunming - Dwarf Tree Jasmine.

What a wonderful treat! A very rare small Thai tree with extremely fragrant flowers.
  • โšœ๏ธ The scent resembles roses, juicy fruit, candies, fine cologne all together and can be smelled from many yards away.
  • โšœ๏ธ Leaves are very ornamental and have a fountain-like architecture.
  • โšœ๏ธ In Thailand, the tree symbolizes simplicity, endurance, advancement, and peacefulness.
  • โšœ๏ธ Extract from these flowers is used in village pharmacy as relaxant and aphrodisiac.
  • โšœ๏ธ Easy to grow, compact dense plant, good for containers. Relatively cold hardy. Everbloomer.


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What is the flower of the most expensive perfume?

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - white flower Alba

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - white flower Alba

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca

๐Ÿต What is the flower of the most expensive perfume? Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree. It is the fragrance the most expensive perfume Joy is made of, and our signature flower!

๐Ÿงด The flowers from this tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - are used to make the world's most expensive perfume 'Joy' and smell like fruity bubble gum ๐ŸŽ€... you can't stop sticking your nose in this flower!

๐Ÿ‘ผ Sacred tree of India and SE Asia
flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women

๐ŸŒณ Perfect small landscape tree of a columnar shape. Ideal for containers.

๐ŸŒก Relatively cold hardy

๐Ÿ’Ž Rare collectible, a gem of any plant collection!

๐Ÿ“š Learn more about Champaka

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Brown thumb? No problem

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl

๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿพ Brown thumb? No problem. This is how to get an indestructible massive indoor plant that is easier than a plastic plant!

๐ŸŒฟ Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl is the most exceptional plant we've ever seen.
- doesn't care about water
- doesn't care about light
- doesn't care about cats messing with it
- just keeps growing, and growing, and growing...

๐Ÿ˜ต It is an indoor miracle!

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