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Date: 23 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

ow you have seen everything: multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant!

🌸 Now you have seen everything: multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant!

🛒 Shop Adenium colors and hybrids

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Date: 22 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina!

💩 💃 Why did she say it's a dog poo? It's a beauty from Argentina!

🌸 This remarkable caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis - is native to arid regions of Argentina.
🌸 This is a showy flowering vine growing from a large caudex! The caudex can be of some weird shapes and forms. Some old lady once said "it's a dog poo plant!"
🌸 Similar to Desert roses (Adeniums), it grows caudex for water storage to survive extended drought periods.
🌸 Caudex grows over 2 ft! Vines reach over 12 ft, covered with beautiful bell-shaped pink flowers.
🌸 Can be kept as a bonsai in a pot, easy to control as a container specimen with trellis or pruning.
🌸 Although it doesn't mind dry conditions, the plant benefits from regular watering and good drainage, then it grows fast.
🌸 This is one of our favorite plants, easy to grow, makes a great conversation piece. It is a perfect for bonsai

🛒 Order Caudiciform Morning Glory

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Date: 18 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

👾 How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

🟣 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is one of the most wanted flowering tropical vines.
🟣 When in full bloom, it looks like a cascade of blue-purple over a fence or trellis.
🟣 The fun part is, crushed leaves smell like garlic, which will keep away the vampires and bad luck! 🧛
🟣 Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.
🟣 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.

📚 Garlic vine: how to get rid of bad luck

🎥 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.

🛒 Get rid of bad luck by getting the Garlic Vine

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Date: 17 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles!

🥒 Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯

🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.

🎥 10 Plants That Will Make You Happy. Plant #2: Candle Tree.

🛒Get your own Candle Tree

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Date: 17 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles!

🥒 Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯

🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.

🎥 10 Plants That Will Make You Happy. Plant #2: Candle Tree.

🛒Get your own Candle Tree

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders #Remedies

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Date: 15 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

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

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

🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
🔴 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!
🔴 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.
🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
🔴 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.
🔴 Can be grown in container with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!🪷

📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?

🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders

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Date: 15 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

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

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

🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
🔴 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!
🔴 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.
🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
🔴 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.
🔴 Can be grown in container with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!🪷

📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?

🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders

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Date: 13 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why nuts? We are not nuts! But we taste like peanut butter

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

🔴 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?
🔴 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.
🔴 Loved by both kids and adults, this exotic fruit is as fascinating as the Miracle fruit, making it a rare gem in cultivation.
🔴 Compact in size, small tree reaching only 10-15 ft or kept as a bush, it's a perfect choice for limited spaces.
🔴 Can thrive indoors, starting to fruit within just 2-3 years from seed.

🛒 Get your own Peanut Butter Tree

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Date: 13 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory

🔥 Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory.

🧡 Colvillea racemosa, also known as Colvilles Glory, is a stunning specimen tree renowned for its vibrant orange flowers that bloom in fall.

🟠 Fast growing tree able to reach heights of 30-50 ft
🟠 Striking addition to any landscape where you need to grow a tree quickly.
🟠 Fern-like foliage that may shed in cooler winters offers a captivating display with its long inflorescences and bright yellow stamens.
🟠 Drought-tolerant and resistant to pests.
🟠 Easy-to-care-for and relatively cold hardy.

🛒 Add some color to your garden with Colvilles Glory

#Butterfly_Plants #Nature_Wonders #Trees

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Date: 13 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory

🟠 Fast growing tree able to reach heights of 30-50 ft
🟠 Striking addition to any landscape where you need to grow a tree quickly.
🟠 Fern-like foliage that may shed in cooler winters offers a captivating display with its long inflorescences and bright yellow stamens.
🟠 Drought-tolerant and resistant to pests.
🟠 Easy-to-care-for and relatively cold hardy.

🛒 Add some color to your garden with Colvilles Glory

#Butterfly_Plants #Nature_Wonders

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