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Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball Tree with fruit
Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball Tree flower
Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball Tree fruit
Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball Tree flower
🔮 Why cannon balls grow on a tree with mollusk open mouth.
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- 🐙 Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball Tree - is a rare tree from South America with a bizarre fruit and flowers, that can be seen only in tropical botanic gardens.
- 🐙 It is a very tall tree with large, elliptical leaves
- 🐙 The pinkish-red flowers, strongly scented at night, grow directly from the trunk near the base of the crown, and not on the branches. They look like exotic mollusks! They have a complex structure with numerous stamens that resemble sea anemones or other marine life. The flower is often described as looking like an open mouth or a sea creature.
- 🐙 The tree blooms year round. Flowers are followed by large, globular fruit, up to 8 inches in diameter, resembling cannonballs, hence the name "Cannonball Tree." They remain on the tree for many months. On older trees there may be dozens of fruits and flower clusters at the same time!
- 🐙 When the ripe fruits fall from the tree, they can make a loud, cannonball-like noise upon hitting the ground due to their size and weight.
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Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball Tree
Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball Tree fruit
Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball Tree flowers
Couroupita guianensis - Cannonball Tree flower
More pictures of the Cannonball Tree for the previous post 👆
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Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
Florida Sweet Bay - Vanilla Magnolia (Magnolia virginiana)
Mango Kar Lon Long
Mango Mun Kun Si
Mango - Pina Colada
Mango Ugly Betty
Mango Giselle
Top 5 exotic Mango varieties for rare fruit collection.
Now that you have decided to collect them all but have limited space, these are the top 5 of the most interesting rare Mango cultivars:
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Now that you have decided to collect them all but have limited space, these are the top 5 of the most interesting rare Mango cultivars:
- 🟠 1. Kar Lon Long - rare and unusual, native to India. Fruits that can weigh up to 5 lbs each! The unique flavor that has been described as being a cross between a mango and a pineapple.
- 🟠 2. Mun Kun Si - similar to Nam Doc Mai but much bigger. Rare variety, very popular among Thai and Vietnamese people. The fruit are extremely sweet, fiberless and somewhat crunchy ("Mun" means crunchy). Very late producer, fruit may still be on a tree as late as January.
- 🟠 3. Pina Colada - very sweet, has rich flavor with a hint of coconut and pineapple.
- 🟠 4. Ugly Betty - awesome mango, great sweet flavor, while the fruit is real ugly! Slightly mis-shaped at the top - hence the name.
- 🟠 5. Giselle - from Gary Zill's breeding program and was a seedling of a mango called Tower. It was described as a juice mango and is named after Gary's wife.
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📝 See also earlier posts:
- 🔸 5 most Favorite Mango Varieties
- 🔸 Top 10 Dwarf "Condo" Mango
- 🔸 Top 5 vigorous growers and reliable producers
- 🔸 How to grow a mango tree
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Lippia dulcis - Aztec Sweet Herb, Sweetleaf
Lippia dulcis - Aztec Sweet Herb, Sweetleaf
Lippia dulcis - Aztec Sweet Herb, Sweetleaf
