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🌱 Chaya's health benefits: a must-have tropical leafy vegetable for sustainable gardening

• 🌿 What is Chaya?

· Chaya (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius) is a little-known, nutrient-packed leafy green.

• · It is a small perennial tree or shrub, native to the Yucatan Peninsula.
• · Also known as Maya Spinach, Kikilchay, or Chaykeken.
• · Younger leaves and stems are used like spinach: cooked and served with oil or butter.

• 🌿 Health Benefits:

· Rich in protein, calcium, iron, and vitamins A & C.

• · Aids digestion, improves circulation, and supports lactation.
• · Used in folk medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure, and anemia.

• 🌿 Important Tip:

· Always cook the leaves (boil for 10-15 minutes) to neutralize toxins and make them safe to eat.

• 🌿 Growing Chaya:

· Fast-growing perennial, thriving in full sun to partial shade.

• · Perfect for food forests or backyard gardens.
• · Propagate easily from 6-12 inch stem cuttings and make more to eat!
• · Can grow up to 6-8 feet tall and be continuously harvested with proper care.

🌿 Garden Benefits:

• · Pretty white flowers attract butterflies and hummingbirds.
• · Resilient to drought and thrives in various soil types. Heat and cold tolerant.

🛒 Start growing your Chaya today for a sustainable garden!

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How to choose the right Butterfly plants?
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  Want to bring more butterflies to your garden? It's simple - plant butterfly-friendly plants!
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  Not sure which plants to choose? Top Tropicals has a wide selection of butterfly attractors ready for you! Visit our nursery or shop online today.
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💖 This mysterious plant will make pink butterflies fly in your stomach!

• 💖 Kalanchoe x Pink Butterfly - Variegated Mother of Thousands... This exceptional plant, originally gifted to us by horticulturist Mark Hooten, quickly became one of the highlights of our rare plant collection.
• 💖 The Kalanchoe x Pink Butterfly is a true standout, known for its unique, stable variegated "sport" - meaning it has a lower chlorophyll content, allowing vibrant, bright pink pigments to shine through. This makes it one of the most colorful succulents you'll encounter!
• 💖 The plant produces an abundance of tiny, butterfly-like plantlets along its leaves. Unlike other Kalanchoe plants, it has lost the ability to root from these plantlets, making it even more intriguing.
• 💖 Pink Butterfly is incredibly easy to care for, drought-tolerant, and thrives in both sun and shade, making it the perfect exotic houseplant for any space.
• 💖 This variegated form is a mutation of an older hybrid, the origin of which is a bit mysterious. The original hybrid, Kalanchoe x houghtonii, was a cross between Kalanchoe daigremontiana and Kalanchoe delagoensis. Over time, a variegated sport of this hybrid emerged, giving rise to the beautiful Kalanchoe x Pink Butterfly we see today.
• 💖 A must-have for any succulent collector, this plant will not only bring a splash of color to your home but also a touch of rarity!

🛒 Add Kalanchoe x Pink Butterfly to your rare plant collection

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How to get a rare, hard to find plant? Here @TopTropicals we have them all, sooner or later! Let us notify you when it's in stock!
If you found a rare plant in our Plant Encyclopedia (containing over 5,000 plant profiles) that's currently unavailable in the store (containing over 2,000 items), just add it your wishist request.

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🌸 New Plumerias just landed! Here's how to make them bloom

• 🌸 We've got stunning new Plumeria varieties in stock - but quantities are limited, so don’t wait! Choose your favorite colors and bring home the fragrance of the tropics!
• 🌸 These tropical beauties are famous for their rich colors and incredible fragrance. With just a few simple steps, you can grow your own blooming Plumeria tree and enjoy flowers just like in the pictures.
• 🌸 How to Grow a Blooming Plumeria?

Give your Plumeria the right soil, the right pot, and plenty of sun. Let it rest in winter, and feed it with the right fertilizer - and it will reward you with nonstop blooms! Use Sunshine Abundance Soil Mix for healthy roots and Sunshine Megaflor Bloom Booster to fuel abundant flowering.

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📚 Learn more from previous posts:
What is the most unusual Plumeria?
Why Perfumed Plumeria is tricky
How to grow a fragrant Plumeria
What is the most celebrated fragrant flower?

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🌳 Perfect neglect plant?

👍🏾 Yes, such plant exists! A Brown Thumb plant. Even your cat can handle its care!

🌿 Cissus rotundifolia - Arabian Wax Leaf - is a perfect neglect plant! Grow it either as house plant, hanging basket, fast growing ground cover, or decorate your patio with it. It needs no attention and will reward your "no-efforts" with beautiful waxy foliage. Needs very little water, just like another Brown Thumb plant - Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl that we mentioned earlier. No worries if you forget to water them!

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🌸 Fun Facts About the Guava Flower

• 🌸 Frilly and Fabulous - Guava flowers may be small, but they're packed with fluffy white stamens that give them a soft, powder-puff look.
• 🌸 Pollinator Magnet - Bees and butterflies love guava blooms, making them a great addition to a pollinator-friendly garden.
• 🌸 Scent-sational - The flowers have a light, pleasant fragrance that adds a touch of sweetness before the fruit even arrives.
• 🌸 Bloom to Fruit - Each flower can turn into a delicious guava fruit, making them both beautiful and productive.
• 🌸 Part of the Showy Family - Guava (Psidium) belongs to the Myrtaceae family, which also includes eye-catching bloomers like Eucalyptus, Bottlebrush (Callistemon), and the stunning Rose Apple (Syzygium).

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