🤔 What is the most medicinal Indian fruit tree?

• 🧅 Phyllanthus acidus - Otaheite Gooseberry, Amlak - is very close related to the famous Phyllanthus emblica (Amla, Amlaki), however it is much hardier plant.
• 🧅 Known as Amritphala in Sanskrit, which literally means the fruit of heaven or nectar fruit. It is so called because it is rich in many desirable properties, including medicinal.
• 🧅 Small to medium in size tree, under 20 feet, very bushy and pretty.
• 🧅 Fruits are borne in loose clusters, which hang from the tree trunk and main branches. Fruits are very acidic and tart, and esteemed for jellies, preserves and pastries.
• 🧅 There are no commercial plantings; only in home gardens.
• 🧅 The Amla fruit paste is a major ingredient of Chavyanprash, a popular Ayurvedic tonic. It is the richest source of vitamin C. Phyllanthus acidus is called Ari Nelli in Tamil, and the Phyllanthus emblica (Amlaki) is Muzhu Nelli in Tamil. Muzhu Nelli is even richer in Vitamin C etc.

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🍋 🎂 How to make sour taste sweet and what causes the miracle?

• 🍭Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum - is one of the strangest tropical fruit that makes sour taste sweet!
• 🍭 The miracle is that if lemon or other sour food is eaten after the miracle fruit, the sour tastes sweet, as if sugar has been added. That kind of magical experience is unforgettable!
• 🍭 A natural chemical in the fruit masks the tongue sour taste buds so that lemons taste like lemonade or lemon pie, or lemon candy! The sweet sensation lasts for half an hour to a few hours.
• 🍭 Miracle fruit berries are valued as a food supplement for chemo-therapy patients to improve the taste of food.
• 🍭 This small, evergreen shrub grows very slowly to a height of 4-6 ft in container, and 6-10 ft in natural habitat. A 10 years old plant might be easily only 4-5 feet tall. It forms an oval to pyramidal shaped bush or small tree.
• 🍭 Miracle fruit is a small compact bush, and can be a rewarding indoor plant. It can be grown in a 1-3 gal pot and produce most of the year. Seed to fruit in 2 to 3 years. Flower to fruit in 30 to 45 days.

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What is the most aromatic medicinal herb

• 💮 Lippia alba - Poleo, Pitiona: this medicinal plant related to Lantana is widely cultivated in Mexico as an ornamental for its aromatic foliage and pretty white flowers.
• 💮 The essential oil composition is unique to each plant!
• 💮 The leaves are used for flavoring foods, such as mole sauces from Oaxaca, Mexico.
• 💮 The plant is used medicinally for its somatic, sedative, antidepressant, and analgesic properties.
• 💮 Leaves and roots are used to make tea or syrup for cough relief and are said to relieve symptoms from anxiety to flatulence and hypertension.

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🍭 Why Strawberry Tree is called Cotton Candy

• 🍓The Strawberry Tree, also known as Cotton Candy (Muntingia calabura), is a fruit lover's dream!
• 🍓 Its pretty white flowers resemble those of a strawberry plant, giving it its name. The fruits are super sweet, with no acidity, earning it the "Cotton Candy" nickname.
• 🍓 This fast-growing tree is incredibly rewarding, producing two crops a day from spring to fall!
• 🍓 It’s easy to grow, drought-tolerant, and fruits right away even in containers - just watch out for frost if you're outside the tropics.

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🥜 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#10. Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)

🤎 Peanut Butter Tree, earns its name from its fleshy fruits that boast a delightful peanut butter flavor. Compact in size, small tree reaching only 10-15 ft or kept as a bush, it's a perfect choice for limited spaces. Can thrive indoors, starting to fruit within just 2-3 years from seed.

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• 💋Delectable Peanut Butter Tree
• 💋The best small fruit trees that will produce right away
• 💋How soon will Peanut Butter Tree fruit?
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

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Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#9. Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)

🖤 Blackberry Jam Fruit, Jasmin de Rosa is a curious small evergreen tree or bush that combines features of a fragrant flower and delicious dessert fruit which tastes like fresh Blackberry jam. Fragrant white flowers are similar to Gardenia.

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• 💋The best small fruit trees that will produce right away
• 💋Truth about Blackberry Jam: it comes from Gardenia
• 💋Top 10 fast-fruiting trees

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⭐️ Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#8. Carambola - Starfruit (Averrhoa carambola)

💛 Growing Carambola tree is a fun and rewarding way to enjoy this unique star-shaped delicious fruit right at home. It fruits on the 3d year from seed. The tree is easy to grow and reliable producer, providing wind protection.

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• 💋How to grow your own Carambola
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🍇 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#7. Mulberry (Morus hybrids)

💜 Mulberry is very cold hardy and can grow in wide range of climate zones, from USDA 5 to 10. Everyone knows this sweet, tasty, juicy fruit. The tree will produce right away, you will see fruit the next season after planting, and the tree grows fast.

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• 💋 How Mulberry fruit helps with diabetes
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🍊 Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#6. Papaya (Carica papaya)

🧡 Papaya is probably the fastest fruiting tree that can start production the same year from planting a seed. Many dwarf varieties available in selection, reaching only 6-8 ft tall, but producing large crops of full size fruit - they are easy to harvest. Plant 2-3 Papaya trees of different cultivars that fruit at different times of the year and enjoy heavy crops of healthy fruit year around! Another benefit - this tree doesn't take much space in the garden, you can plant as many as you want.

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• 💋 How to have fresh Papaya fruit year around
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🥃 When you are in the mood for something special - you need a Loquat Liquor. This is what you do with so many loquat fruit.

🍑 Loquat tree is an excellent choice for any garden, as it is quite cold hardy, drought-, poor soil- and salt tolerant. The delicious fruit look and taste similar to apricots, but there is only one problem: there are too many of them! Make Loquat the perfect fruit for an easy home winery...

🍹 Loquat Liquor recipe

Wash loquat fruit and slit in 4-5 places. You may leave seeds in for Apricot-nutty flavor similar to Amaretto. Combine fruit with vodka and sugar in a wide mouth jar and cover. Stir fruit once a day until sugar is dissolved. Then stir once a week for 4 weeks. Drain liquid and strain through fine cheesecloth. Enjoy!

You can dispose the used fruit but we usually give it a second life: add water, bring to boil, let sit, chill, and it will make another (almost non-alcoholic) drink!

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  ✔️ 3 quarts of loquat fruit
• ✔️ 1 quart vodka
• ✔️ 3 cups sugar
• ✔️ vanilla to taste (optional)

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• • Golden Loquat – the Symbol of Prosperity
• • Learn more about Loquats

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