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Philippine violet. Grows into a shapely shrub with minimal pruning. The purple trumpet-shaped flowers openin in terminal clusters. This is an easy-to-grow shrub, about 3ft height, which can be used for a garden hedge or tightly clipped into geometrical shapes. Takes both sun and shade, it requires some more sun to flower profusely and occasional pruning to promote bushy growth.

Blue Plumbago, Cape Leadwort. Unusual blue color for tropics! Blooms all year round with denser blooms from March to November. Plumbago is popular in both tropical and sub-tropical gardens because of its delicate blue flowers, it is seen often as a low plant used for hedges. It tolerates both drought and poor soil, grows best if it is heavily pruned from time to time, even cut back to the ground.
Learn more about Plumbago: Sky Blue Plumbago in Southern Landscapes.

Fish Poison Tree. This curious plant grows in sand or sand-mix with lots of water and sun. The stem will reach for up to 60Ft, and the flowers are white. What seems to be a caudex is just the large nut which will disappear by time. The young leaves are a beautiful bronze with pinkish veins. Old leaves turn yellowish. The flowers are delightful puff balls of white stamens tipped with pink. They open at night and attract large moths and nectar-feeding bats with their heavy scent.

Dwarf Golden Trumpet. Dwarf variety of garden favorite allamanda, with smaller narrow leaves and regular size yellow trumpet flowers. Great for small size gardens, potting culture or as a small accent plant.

Cape Honeysuckle. Attractive, dark green foliage and frequent displays of long, scarlet tubular flowers at the ends of the stems. Read Article about this plant

Pink Jacobinia, Pink Brazilian Plume Flower. Spectacular pink flowers from late spring to fall. Butterfly and hummingbird attractor. The plant is relatively cold hardy to light freeze and grows back from roots even if leaves are damaged.

Cahuato, Orange Bells. Vigorous shrub that thrives in heat and blooms year round. Great for containers. Beautiful loose clusters of orange trumpet-like blooms. Hardy to zone 8B.

Terracotta Red Black-eyed Susan - a fine fast growing sprawling vine with attractive red flowers.

This variety commonly has been called "Salmon" but it fact it is bright orange. We changed the name to avoid confusion with another variety "Apricot" (item 5973) that is closer to salmon color.
One of the most rewarding flowering plants! Stunning display of orange flowers year round, from winter through spring and summer. Unlike other tecomarias, it is more of an upright shrub with naturally compact shape and doesn't shoot long leggy branches. You don't have to prune it, it keeps naturally rounded, bushy shape. Attracts butterflies.
It's an eye catching flower that appears all year round!

Bougainvillea Sunvillea Rose (also called Dwarf Pixie) is deep pink, almost a magenta in color. It blooms the brightest of fuchsia-pink bracts contrasting with its bright green foliage. If you're looking for a pick-me-up for your container gardens, or a dull space in the landscape, here's your winner!
It is a dwarf form of thornless Bougainvillea with extremely slow growth rate. These showy evergreen dwarf beauties have numerous bright colorful bracts growing in an upright habit. This plant flowers in a small as a 4" pot and is great for landscapes and patio containers. It has a shape of natural bonsai, and leaves are smaller. Bright flowers are born in dense clusters. 3-4 y.o. plants can stay only 3-4 ft and look like natural bonsai trees. They stay compact, perfectly round and dense shape, don't require pruning, making a must-have for any garden, especially for the small spaces in your yard.
See picture of the mature tree in 7 gal pot

Chaa-plu, Vietnamese Pepper, Lalot,Wild Betel. Eaten raw in salads or cooked with other greens or dishes, or wrap meats and cook in oven or on stove or grill. It is used medicinally in India and South China as well as Indonesia for feverish diseases, for digestive disorders, and toothache, to treat pain in the bones. When the root is chewed with betel nut, it is said to be helpful for the treatment of coughs and asthma. The leaves are used as food (food wraps) in Vietnam.
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Bailey's Marvel mango is a classic Florida variety often compared to Haden - but improved. It offers the same rich, traditional mango flavor with less fiber, making it smoother and more enjoyable to eat. The fruit is large, round to slightly oblong, with an attractive red blush over a yellow base. Flesh is juicy, aromatic, and balanced in sweetness. Trees are vigorous, productive, and known for better disease tolerance than older varieties like Haden. For best eating quality, harvest when the base begins to turn yellow and ripen off the tree - enjoy before it becomes overly soft. A reliable, old-school favorite with strong flavor and good cold tolerance.
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Firecracker fern, Coral plant. Bright red flowers. Low-growing shrub, distinctive for its long, drooping, usually leafless stems and the almost continuous clusters of small tubular flowers. Each plant produces many branches and is particularly effective when grown in a raised bed or rock garden so that the flower-laden stems hang down. Attractive to butterflies and hummingbirds. Russelia will grow under both moist and dry conditions, but requires full sunlight and occasional pruning to flower well.
See picture of actual plant for sale (1-2013).

Rare gardenia from Africa with blooms sporadically year round. Covered with flowers when in bloom. Strong fragrance, unusually shaped leaves. Rare gardenia with star-like tubular flowers. It is a slow growing, round shrub and has large leaves of unusual diamond shape and delicate to touch unlike most of gardenias with waxy leaves. The plant blooms sporadically several times a year - year round. Fragrance is very strong and sweet. One day the whole plant is covered with blooms that stay a few days and then drop all together. A must for rare plant collection.

Red Cassia, Ceylon Senna. Graceful tree with spreading, drooping branches appearing to be overweighted by its wealth of clustering red blossoms. Has alternate pinnate leaves in pairs with colored margins which further enhance the appearance.

Jamaica Caper Tree, Mustard Tree. Jamaica caper produces large quantities of flowers with white petals and many purple stamens, which extend beyond the petals. Fruit are slender, rust-colored pods which split open to expose orange-red seeds. The dense, strong Jamaica caper is very wind resistant and extremely salt tolerant.

Verawood. Beautiful large specimen tree with bright golden-yellow to orange flowers. Drought tolerant once established. Needs good drainage, but tolerates poor soils. Great shade tree.

Red Kapok tree is a remarkable tree with spectacular display of bright red flowers, which bloom during the spring season. The flowers are large, showy, and have a sweet fragrance, making them popular with birds and insects. The tree's blossoms are also used in traditional medicine for their medicinal properties.

Dwarf Golden Tabebuia. A sparse crowned small to medium tree with large heads of golden yellow flowers. Good choice for a small garden or potting culture.

Panama red Passion fruit. A hybrid passionfruit that is vigorous and more tropical than others. The large fruit has attractive red skin and crops very heavily from Autumn through to Spring. Delicious fruit, flavor is appealing, musky, guava-like, acid. Great for drinks. Vigorous fast growing vine that is relatively cold tolerant.
See Article about Passion Fruit.

The variety was named after its creator Gary Zill, one of the greatest mango selectionists (Florida).
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Miracle Fruit - unique fruit makes sour taste sweet.
It is one of the strangest tropical fruits. 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. 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.
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Colvilles glory. Specimen tree with very conspicuous cylindrical or cone shaped clusters of bright orange flowers that are bright red in bud.

A rare exotic fruit tree from southern Africa, Spanish Tamarind, or Wild Medlar, is a hidden gem for fruit lovers and collectors. It produces small, round fruits with a sweet-tart flavor, enjoyed fresh, dried, or cooked into jams, sauces, or even fermented beverages. This plant isn't just tasty - it's packed with health benefits. The fruit is rich in vitamin C, fiber, and essential minerals. Traditionally used as natural medicine, the leaves and bark are brewed for fever, colds, and digestive issues. Bark and foliage yield natural dyes in yellow, green, and purple. The tree is easy to grow in warm climates (Zones 9-11) and can handle poor soil, dry weather and even cold snaps. What makes this even more impressive? The tree has beautiful, lush velvet leaves - soft to the touch and tropical in appearance - yet surprisingly hardy for such large, tender-looking foliage. Give it full sun, some water, and it'll reward you with 20-40 fruits per season. Hard to find and easy to grow, Spanish Tamarind is a perfect addition to your food forest or tropical collection.