🪸 Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection.

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  ♥️ Jatropha podagrica: commonly known as the Gout Plant, this plant is a true attention grabber and a must-have in any container garden, as well as in succulent or bonsai plant collection.
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  ♥️ Features a distinctive bottle-like caudex and surprisingly large tropical leaves up to 10-12 inches in diameter. Just like you saw in Adeniums.
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  ♥️ Thrives in the shade, where its leaves grow even larger.
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  ♥️ Perfect for natural bonsai and makes an excellent potted plant or conversation piece in a small garden.
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  ♥️ Grows only 2-3 feet high, with a knobby, swollen stem and eye-catching, coral-like red flowers in large terminal clusters.
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  ♥️ Prefers partial sun and well-drained soil, and is very drought-tolerant.
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  ♥️ Easy to care for, adding exotic flair and intrigue to any plant collection.

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🪸 Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection.

• ♥️ Jatropha podagrica: commonly known as the Gout Plant, this plant is a true attention grabber and a must-have in any container garden, as well as in succulent or bonsai plant collection.
• ♥️ Features a distinctive bottle-like caudex and surprisingly large tropical leaves up to 10-12 inches in diameter. Just like you saw in Adeniums.
• ♥️ Thrives in the shade, where its leaves grow even larger.
• ♥️ Perfect for natural bonsai and makes an excellent potted plant or conversation piece in a small garden.
• ♥️ Grows only 2-3 feet high, with a knobby, swollen stem and eye-catching, coral-like red flowers in large terminal clusters.
• ♥️ Prefers partial sun and well-drained soil, and is very drought-tolerant.
• ♥️ Easy to care for, adding exotic flair and intrigue to any plant collection.

🛒 Shop Gout plant

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🦓 How to grow Zebra in container? 👀

Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (or Snow White) - White Zebra Plant is a showy small perennial with unusual leaves and pretty flowers.

White Zebra gets its name from white stripes on the leaves.

White Zebra is one of the best house plants.

This plant is not only pretty because of its white-veined foliage, but also for the apical inflorescence with its beautiful yellow bracts.

Easy to grow, takes low light, with average water needs.

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🌗 The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night.

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  💠 Brunfelsias are truly enchanting tropical flowers. There are two groups - purple-flowered and cream/white-flowered.
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  💠 All Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant.
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  💠 Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas; ideal for growing in containers.
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  💠 Compact and graceful growers.
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  💠 Purple-flowered are known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days. Examples: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.
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  💠 White-flowered: intensely fragrant at night, earning the name Lady of the Night.

Examples: B. americana, B. nitida, B. plicata, B. manaca.
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  💠 Hybrids: A standout hybrid is Brunfelsia isola, that we mentioned earlier. It is blending the best of both purple and white varieties, inheriting purple color from the purple parent and night fragrance from the white one.

📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

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🌗 The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night.

• 
  💠 Brunfelsias are truly enchanting tropical flowers. There are two groups - purple-flowered and cream/white-flowered.
• 
  💠 All Brunfelsias are wonderfully fragrant.
• 
  💠 Perfect flowering shrub for shaded areas; ideal for growing in containers.
• 
  💠 Compact and graceful growers.
• 
  💠 Purple-flowered are known as Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow for their magical color transformation from purple to lavender to white over three days. Examples: B. grandiflora, B. paucifolia, B. australis.
• 
  💠 White-flowered: intensely fragrant at night, earning the name Lady of the Night.

Examples: B. americana, B. nitida, B. plicata, B. manaca.
• 
  💠 Hybrids: A standout hybrid is Brunfelsia isola, that we mentioned earlier. It is blending the best of both purple and white varieties, inheriting purple color from the purple parent and night fragrance from the white one.

📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil

🛒 Shop different Brunfelsias

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🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.

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#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.

🧯 #Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.

🥭 #Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.

📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.

🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.

♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?

🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.

👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...

🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).

🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.

✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.

🥗 #Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.

💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.

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🦋 #Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.

#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.

🧯 #Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.

🥭 #Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.

📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.

🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.

♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?

🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.

👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...

🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).

🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.

✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.

🥗 #Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.

💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.

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

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

👽 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.

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

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