🦕 The Ribbon Bush is a terrific, leaf-less plant from the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific with long, flattened stems resembling tapeworms - hence its nickname "Tapeworm Plant".
🦕 It's hard to capture the unusual beauty of this plant in pictures.
🦕 This is an awesome, offbeat plant that will get people asking: "What the heck is that??".
🦕This plant needs very little care, makes a great houseplant, and is very hard to find.
Code red: Study reveals
human degradation of tropical forests
is greater than previously estimated
This summer has been scorching hot across the globe, with every summer
month breaking temperature records in recorded history.
Have you ever wondered what kind of natural world your children or
grandchildren will inherit? Will they grow up surrounded by lush forests and
greenery, or will they only know cities made of metal and concrete?
Tropical forests are super important for biodiversity and fighting
climate change, but humans are messing them up more than we thought. Using fancy
tech from the International Space Station, scientists found that human activities like logging and road-building
are degrading these forests a lot. Even edges of forests are suffering,
reducing canopy height and biomass significantly. This degradation is often
overlooked, even though it has a huge impact on carbon emissions and biodiversity
loss.
Planting trees in your yard, or even better, several trees, helps combat
this problem by restoring some of the lost biodiversity and absorbing carbon
dioxide. Plus, it's a fun way to make your space greener and contribute to a
healthier planet!
Together, we've planted over 15,000 trees this year!
This year at TopTropicals, we have planted quite a few trees. Let's
see...
- 44 mango trees planted at our BFarm...
- 49 tropical fruit trees
- 127 flowering trees and shrubs... (special thanks to Mick and Aurelio)
- 15,282 plants were ordered and, hopefully, planted by our customers this
year so far...
Join us. Plant a tree today to make the difference!
"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree
a long time ago." - Warren Buffett
🥭 How India grows most of the mangoes in the world.
📍 India grows 45% of all the mangoes in the world. However, exports account for only 1% of international trade - almost all the mangoes are consumed locally by the residents.
📍 Mango import in the US limited by only easy-to-ship, fibrous varieties such as Tommy Atkins.
📍 To enjoy the full palette of mango varieties, you need to grow your own tree or buy fruit from local growers in southern areas.
🔘 Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant: this plant is a real Nature's Wonder! The fun part is the "mattress" where the seed "buttons" grow.
🚀 The plant has strange looking receptacles. At maturity, seeds shoot ballistically from the mature flower/fruit heads, and they germinate readily whenever the land on soil or other moist substrate.
These two varieties of Clerodendrum must go together - Blue Butterfly and Pink Butterfly - perfect combination! The flowers and butterfly-like shape attract butterflies and other pollinators to the garden. So these plants are all about butterflies!
🦋 Blue Butterfly Bush that we mentioned earlier, is a popular fast growing showy shrub with bright blue butterfly-like flowers
🎀 Pink Butterfly Bush is very rare new plant in cultivation, is very similar to more common Blue variety but has pink flowers.
