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Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection
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.
♥️ 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.
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Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection
Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant
Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant flowers
Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant
Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant leaves
Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant caudex
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.
- ♥️ 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.
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How to grow Zebra in container?
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White)
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White)
Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White)
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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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.
🛒 Get your own White Zebra
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The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night
🌗 The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night.
📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil
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💠 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.
💠 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.
Examples: B. americana, B. nitida, B. plicata, B. manaca.
📚 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
Brunfelsia lactea
Brunfelsia australis
Brunfelsia grandiflora
Brunfelsia manaca
Brunfelsia grandiflora
Brunfelsia paucifolia
🌗 The number one flower for shady spots! Every tropical gardener wants Brunfelsias: the magical, fragrant shrubs of Day and Night.
📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil
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- 💠 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.
- 💠 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.
Examples: B. americana, B. nitida, B. plicata, B. manaca.
📚 Learn more about purple Brunfelsias:
Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow, Brunfelsia from Brazil
🛒 Shop different Brunfelsias
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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 flowers
Coffee tree in a pot
Coffee tree fruit
☕️ 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!
🎁 Coffee is a perfect gift plant and a great indoor container fruit tree.
🎥 Coffee Tree Showcase · Grow your own: Free Coffee Everyday
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No doubt about it - it's a Coffee tree!
- 🔸 Coffee is the most popular fruit tree suitable for indoors.
- 🔸 Coffee is shade loving plant, easy to grow, providing regular water.
- 🔸 Coffee grows into a beautiful dark green shrub or small tree.
- 🔸 The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related.
- 🔸 The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red.
- 🔸 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, Crocodile Fern
Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern
Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern
Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern
🐊 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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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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What is this Lavender Marble Perfume? Is it a possible combination?
Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night
Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night
Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night
Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night
🟣 What is this Lavender Marble Perfume? Is it a possible combination?
The flowers of this rare hybrid - Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night, are a "marble" twist of cream and purple, changing hue unpredictably. They are deliciously fragrant at night.
❓ Why such an unusual combination?
👑 A must have 1 for rare fragrant plant collection!
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The flowers of this rare hybrid - Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night, are a "marble" twist of cream and purple, changing hue unpredictably. They are deliciously fragrant at night.
❓ Why such an unusual combination?
- 🌟 Nocturnum flowers (fragrant at night) are mostly white or off-white. This rare Brunfelsia is a cross between B. americana and B. grandiflora.
- 🌟Brunfelsia isola has the benefit of fragrant cream-colored brunfelsia and light purple color from the other parent. 👫
- 🌟 Flowers change sometimes to cream-yellow, remaining purple margins.
👑 A must have 1 for rare fragrant plant collection!
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Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?
Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)
Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)
Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)
Mazabuka, Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus)
Why this blue tropical flower has a violet fragrance?
You already saw one unusual blue flower of Tropics - Lead Flower. This one is even more interesting!
👄 Mazabuka, or Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus) has mauve-blue, unusually lipped flowers that are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!
🐝🐦 The numerous flowers produced in summer are attractive to pollinating insects which encourage insect-feeding birds into the garden.
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You already saw one unusual blue flower of Tropics - Lead Flower. This one is even more interesting!
👄 Mazabuka, or Blue Lips (Sclerochiton harveyanus) has mauve-blue, unusually lipped flowers that are lightly violet-lavender-fragrant!
- 💙 Blue Lips create a pretty floral display on this shade-loving shrub with its attractive glossy green foliage.
- 💙 Flowers are mauve-blue to purple and the lower petals are ribbed, giving the impression of lips, hence the common name.
- 💙 Five fringed lobes, equal in size, short and rounded, are the flowers distinguishing feature.
- 💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!
🐝🐦 The numerous flowers produced in summer are attractive to pollinating insects which encourage insect-feeding birds into the garden.
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What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?
Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower
Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, Lead Flower
What is the bluest flower of the Tropics?
Eranthemum pulchellum - Blue Sage, or Lead Flower is brightest gentian blue - very unusual color in the tropics!
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- 💙 Winter heavy bloomer
- 💙 Attracts butterflies and bees 🐝
- 💙 Compact shrub, responds well to pruning.
- 💙 Shade lover. Will happily bloom in the shade!
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