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How to always have your own Root Beer. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava

How to always have your own Root Beer
  • Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.
  • This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.
  • Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.
  • This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.
  • The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.


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This is what butterflies love. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Odontonema - Butterfly Bush

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The most difficult thing is the decision to act. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act

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What is a good exotic looking flowering plant for a shade garden? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Chrysothemis pulchella - Copper Leaf, Black Flamingo

🔥 What is a good exotic looking flowering plant for a shade garden?
  • 🏀 One of the most unusual looking plants in or shade garden collection is Chrysothemis pulchella - Copper Leaf, Black Flamingo.
  • 🏀 It is a spectacular tropical perennial that can be grown as a houseplant or in a greenhouse.
  • 🏀 From summer to late fall it is covered with showy orange-red flowers, may bloom sporadically several times a year.
  • 🏀 Forms a dense mountain of flowers and foliage.
  • 🏀 The plant forms tubers at the base of the stem. By the end of fall the leaves may die back, the plant goes dormant till spring. Then it re-sprouts in Spring again.
  • 🏀 Reduce water to minimum during dormancy period.


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A man's kiss is his signature. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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Why walking outdoors improves mental health. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Why walking outdoors improves mental health

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Plumerias are in full bloom. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Plumerias in bloom

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Why is it called Hamburger Bean? Just look at the hamburgers! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Yellow Jade vine (Mucuna sloanei)

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Is it a plant or an animal? It's a Centipede Fern! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Homalocladium platycladum - Centipede Fern