🐲 What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. 🌵

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  🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
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  🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
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  🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
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  🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
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  🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
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  🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
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  🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
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  🔴 Can be grown in container with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!🪷

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🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?

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🥜 Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter... Craving a Nutty Surprise? Meet the Delectable Peanut Butter Tree!

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  🔴 Bunchosia argentea, commonly known as the Peanut Butter Tree, earns its name from its fleshy fruits that boast a delightful peanut butter flavor - how cool is that?
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  🔴 This attractive small tree dazzles with clusters of yellow flowers, followed by an abundance of dark red fruit with rich, sweet flesh reminiscent of peanut butter.
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  🔴 Loved by both kids and adults, this exotic fruit is as fascinating as the Miracle fruit, making it a rare gem in cultivation.
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  🔴 Compact in size, small tree reaching only 10-15 ft or kept as a bush, it's a perfect choice for limited spaces.
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  🔴 Can thrive indoors, starting to fruit within just 2-3 years from seed.

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🍇 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.

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  🔵 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.
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  🔵 Fruits are borne in late Spring or early Fall and usually eaten fresh or used in drinks.
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  🔵 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!
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  🔵 Blue Jaboticaba can tolerate light frost when established.

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🥬 18 most popular herbs: where to use each herb? 🍲

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  🌿 Arugula - Green salads, pasta sauce
• 🌿 Balm - Iced drinks, salads, poultry stuffing
• 🌿 Basil - Tomato salad, any past dish? home-made pesto, garnish
• 🌿 Catnip - Sauces and stews, for tea
• 🌿 Chervil - Soups, green salads, as a garnish
• 🌿 Chives - Cream cheese, potato salad, green salads, sauces
• 🌿 Cilantro - Stews, rice, salads, salsa
• 🌿 Dill - Fish dishes, pickles, ptato salad
• 🌿 Lemon grass - Oriental stir-fry, for tea
• 🌿 Marjoram - Italian dishes, stews, soups
• 🌿 Mint - Add to potatoes, peas, cucumber, carrots, mint sauce, mint tea
• 🌿 Oregano - Italian and Greek dishes, green salad
• 🌿 Parsley - Butters, pasta dishes, as garnish
• 🌿 Rosemary - BBQ, roast lamb/chicken, fish, fried/baked potatoes
• 🌿 Sage - Stuffing, add to poultry, mix with cream cheese
• 🌿 Sorrel - Soup, serve with fish, pastries
• 🌿 Tarragon - Fish, chicken, sauces
• 🌿 Thyme - Stocks and stews, add to pasta

📸 Basil, Catnip, Rosemary, Oregano, Cilantro, Sage, Terragon, Lemon grass, Mint, Thyme

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☕️ 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!

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  🔸 Coffee is the most popular fruit tree suitable for indoors.
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  🔸 Coffee is shade loving plant, easy to grow, providing regular water.
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  🔸 Coffee grows into a beautiful dark green shrub or small tree.
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  🔸 The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related.
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  🔸 The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red.
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  🔸 The seeds are the actual "coffee beans", they can easily be dried, roasted and ground at home.

🎁 Coffee is a perfect gift plant and a great indoor container fruit tree.

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🍇 What is Jaboticaba? I like the sound of this word! 😁

Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) is the most popular native fruit of Brazil that famous Brazilian Vine La Vino Tinto is made of!🍷

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  🟣 Grape-like purple fruit with a thick skin and delicious melting pulp somewhat resembling Northern Black Currant in flavor.
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  🟣 Trees grow very slowly and due to small leaves and dwarfish growth habit are often used as bonsai. Some old bonsai specimens can fruit.
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  🟣 Larger specimens are very valuable because it takes Jaboticaba up to 7 years from seed to start fruiting.
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  🟣 Similar to Mamey, Jaboticaba has cauliflorous fruit - that grow on main stems or woody trunks.
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  🟣 Jaboticaba is relatively cold hardy, mature trees are taking down to 23 F for short periods without serious damage.

🎥 Video about a mail ordered Jaboticaba tree.

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🍇 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!🍷

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  🟣 Grape-like purple fruit with a thick skin and delicious melting pulp somewhat resembling Northern Black Currant in flavor.
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  🟣 Trees grow very slowly and due to small leaves and dwarfish growth habit are often used as bonsai. Some old bonsai specimens can fruit.
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  🟣 Larger specimens are very valuable because it takes Jaboticaba up to 7 years from seed to start fruiting.
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  🟣 Similar to Mamey, Jaboticaba has cauliflorous fruit - that grow on main stems or woody trunks.
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  🟣 Jaboticaba is relatively cold hardy, mature trees are taking down to 23 F for short periods without serious damage.

🎥 Video about a mail ordered Jaboticaba tree.

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🦔 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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🍊 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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🍇 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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