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This rare plant is one of the most spectacular Orchid trees in cultivation. Flowers and extremely showy, look like scarlet butterflies with bright yellow stripes at the base of each petal. It grows into a small tree or bush. Plant in in full sun to get the most of its flowering season. Rare collectible species. Fast growing.
Learn more: Bauhinias: trees with Orchid Flowers and Butterfly Wings

Surinam Cherry, Pitanga - vigorous and quick to fruit, often producing the same year or by the next. This plant is a seedling from Black Surinam Cherry Lolita, known for its very sweet, juicy fruit with no aftertaste. The fruit is relatively large at about 1-1.2 inches, starting red and turning deep black when fully ripe. In our garden, these seedlings have come true to seed with black fruit, though some reports suggest they may occasionally produce red fruit as well.
Pitanga is a reliable producer with an upright, freely branching growth habit. It is also quite cold hardy, tolerating short periods of frost. Once established, the plant can handle temperatures in the upper 20s without damage.
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This is a truly wonderful variety of a Dragon fruit, a red fleshed dwarf (very different from others) distributed as a cultivar under the name "Costa Rican Sunset", however, it is likely an unpublished species. It is very compact, grows more like a small shrub, and really doesn

The Sonpari (or Son Pari) mango is a premium Indian hybrid developed as a cross between the legendary Alphonso and Baneshan (Banganpalli) varieties. Highly regarded for its superior eating quality, this mid-season mango typically matures in June, producing medium-to-large fruit weighing between 16 and 20 oz. The fruit is characterized by an obliquely oval shape with smooth, thin skin that turns a vibrant golden yellow when ripe. Inside, the fiberless, deep orange flesh is firm and exceptionally rich, offering a complex blend of sweetness and aromatic spice notes that mirror the classic Alphonso profile. The Sonpari tree is vigorous and heavy-yielding, featuring a dense, rounded canopy with sub-erect branches. Unlike its Alphonso parent, Sonpari is a consistent regular bearer and is notably resistant to "spongy tissue" disorder, making it a more reliable producer for home growers. It also shows good resistance to common pests and diseases like mealybugs and shoot borers. One of its standout commercial traits is its excellent shelf life; the fruit remains in peak condition for over 10 days at room temperature, maintaining its integrity and lingering aroma long after harvest.
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The Sia Tong mango is a highly desirable dwarf variety that offers the exceptional quality of the Nam Doc Mai in a significantly larger fruit. Perfectly suited for pot culture or small garden spaces, this compact tree produces very large, elongated fruit with smooth skin that transitions from green to a golden yellow as it matures. Its hallmark feature is its completely fiberless, melting texture, which remains consistently high-quality regardless of the fruit's size.
Highly versatile in its culinary uses, Sia Tong can be enjoyed at two distinct stages: when green, the flesh is sweet, crispy, and refreshing, while the fully ripe yellow fruit offers a rich, honey-like sweetness. This variety is an excellent choice for growers seeking a "condo" style mango that doesn't sacrifice fruit volume for tree size, providing a heavy harvest of premium, Nam Doc Mai-style mangos on a manageable, space-saving frame.
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Prince Kuhio Vine. The great ornamental features are beautiful foliage and the flowers. The leaves are palmately divided into five to seven segments, and are very attractive smooth green color. The noticeable long red-purplish flowers are in groups. Even before the flowers emerge the buds are a positive feature, because they look like small berries.

Adenium Thong Suk Jai (Thong Suk Joi ) - is a rich, festive-looking desert rose with large, ruffled double blooms that seem almost sculpted. The petals open in layers of creamy white and coral-pink, while the edges deepen into bright crimson red. This contrast creates a lively, swirling pattern that makes each flower look slightly different as it unfolds.
The blooms are full and textured, with soft, wavy edges that give the flower a lush, almost peony-like appearance. Against the glossy green leaves, the bright red and pink tones stand out beautifully, making the plant look vibrant and cheerful when in bloom.
Because the flowers form dense clusters, a blooming plant can look like a bouquet sitting right on top of the thick caudex trunk - a classic desert rose effect that collectors love.
The name Thong Suk Jai carries a very positive meaning in Thai. Thong - gold; Suk - happiness, joy; Jai - heart or spirit. Together, the name can be understood as Golden Happiness of the Heart or Joyful Golden Heart.
Names with Thong (gold) are very popular in Thai plant breeding because gold symbolizes prosperity, success, and good fortune. This gives the plant not only ornamental beauty but also a symbolic meaning of happiness, wealth, and positive energy.

Golden Millionaire features rich, vibrant colors that are sure to make a statement. The warm golden-yellow petals are accented with bold, deep red streaks, creating a dramatic contrast. The striking hues and multi-layered structure give this flower a luxurious, "millionaire" feel, making it a standout addition to your garden.

Purple Haze Dragon Fruit is a hybrid variety that comes from Hylocereus guatemalensis and Hylocereus polyrhizus. It is a variety with purple flesh and bright pink exterior having green fins. The fruit has a refreshing sweet grape type flavor with few small eatable seeds. Fruits are large and can range from 1.0 to 2.0 pounds. For even larger fruit bud thinning is recommended. This variety typically has three fruiting cycles per the calendar year. It is also a very high producer of fruit.
The purple color on the purple dragon fruit indicates that the pigment content level of betalain is so high that it is purple like a beetroot. It has the most health benefits of all pitayas.

Stifftia chrysantha is an exotic, rare flowering small tree with spectacular flowers, endemic to the vast tropical savanna ecoregion of Brazil called Cerrado. It grows into a bushy, attractive tree between 8 and 15 ft tall and starts flowering within 1.5 - 2.5 years from seed. It is a very rewarding plant that blooms 9 months out of the year, starting in Winter with great intensity during July-September, with each flower staying on the plant for several weeks. Seeds ripen from September through November.
The tree belongs to Aster family (Compositae) and has nothing to do with Powderpuffs which are from Bean (Fabaceae) family. The flower has 30 to 40 green, imbricated scales with short hairs, and actinomorphic corollas are orange below and darker above. After flowering, the inflorescence blows apart, which would scatter seeds. The dried center remaining is very attractive, like a small dried flower, and lasts for many months.
Stifftia can be grown in full sun to partial shade and is relatively cold tolerant, can take short cold spells.
The plant doesn't like wet feet and heavy/soggy soils; requires very well drained, acidic soil. Let soil slightly dry between waterings. It can be grown in full sun to partial shade and is relatively cold tolerant, can take short cold spells. If grown in a pot, try to keep the container shaded because roots don't like to be overheated.

This is a very cute and unique plant from the Philippines and SE Asia that belongs to Hoya and Dischidia family. It's a vigorous growing vine with boat shaped leaves. Very easy to grow and it is a really good bloomer! A lot of Dischidias don't have the most showy flowers, but this plant has very cute fuchsia colored flowers, and the buds never fully open up! They look like little bulbs or dildos. Great as a house plant that doesn't need much maintenance. Grows well in hanging baskets in shade/filtered light and doesn't need a lot of water. The potting soil should be very well drained and porous.

Illustris Colocasia is a classic beauty. The heart-shaped, large purple-and-green leaves of Illustris are huge, and their dark highlights are stunning. This elephant ear is a lover of moist shade, but does best with a little dappled sunlight. It will tolerate boggy conditions. Provide light shade to full shade and consistently moist or boggy soil. It is a strong fast growing variety that does great in container, landscapes, ponds and patios.

A new hybrid from Thailand with Golden-and-Orange inflorescence.
This plant produces an excellent cut flower last up to about 14 days. If placed in a slightly shaded position, flower on the plant can remain for up to 3 months.

Mountain Soursop, Wild Custard Apple, Guanabana de monte, Wild Soursop. The fruit resembles Soursop but with less sugar and has distinctive pineapple flavor.
The tree is small, evergreen, growing up to 20

Variegated Sky Flower is grown for its summer flowers and ornamental fruit. This evergreen fast growing shrub spreads and arches to 10 feet tall and wide and is great for live hedges and covering fences and corners. In the summer, cascading clusters of blue tubular flowers appear followed by wonderfully contrasting orange-yellow berries. This variegated form has creamy-yellow margins around the one inch long serrated leaves. In mild climates this plant can be in flower nearly year round with flowers and fruit appearing at the same time. It does best in full sun with frequent deep watering and is hardy to about 20-25F. A good choice for espaliers, as a small tree or large bush; all forms benefit from frequent selective pruning. Flowers are very attractive to butterflies.
Great for providing a color contrast in the landscape, and is especially well-suited as a bright-colored background or screening. Prune back in late-winter to encourage a more compact shape and strong flush of fresh spring foliage. Requires moderate watering in a well-drained soil.

Costa Rican Guava, Cas Guava. Delicious flavorful fruit, sub-acid, great for drinks of eating out of hand for those who like sweet-n-sour fruit. Lots of vitamin C. Seeds germinate readily and seedlings grow fast.
The yellow fruit, 2-3" around, similar to the common guava growth habit is similar to the cattley guava. Mature trees seem capable of withstanding short frosts.
Usually used to make jams, jellies, and preserves, or as a flavoring for drinks.

Aristolochia gigantea var. Brasiliensis is one of the most outrageous flowers in the world. This species from Brazil has huge, over ten inches in length lemon-scented flowers and exhibits an elaborate pattern of white and mottled reddish brown. Since it is not a vigorous vine, it can easily be trained on a stake, trellis or even a hanging basket. A most interesting rare collectible.

Butter Cream mango (also known as Buttercream) is a newer Zill selection believed to have Edward parentage, prized for its rich, smooth dessert quality. The fruit is medium to large, typically staying green to yellow when ripe, often with natural spotting on the skin. Flesh is deep yellow to orange, fiberless, and exceptionally creamy - living up to its name with a soft, buttery texture. The flavor is rich and sweet with a complex, slightly spicy character, often compared to Alampur Baneshan but smoother and more approachable.
Trees are vigorous and productive, performing well in South Florida conditions. This is a premium dessert mango with a refined, melt-in-your-mouth texture, making it especially appealing to collectors and those looking for something beyond the standard flavor profiles.
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Sein Ta Lone mango is also called Priyoor, Diamond Solitaire, Myanmar #1, or variety "Guava" due to its exceptional flavor. Imagine stumbling upon a small, fiberless mango and being hit with the aroma of fresh guava! An excellent early season variety, with notes of Indian spice and well-rounded sweetness. The fruit is small, oval in shape with yellow skin color. The flesh is firm, fiberless, and sweet with terrific Indochinese-hybrid type flavor. It is comparable to Dupuis Saigon. It contains a seed that is sometimes polyembryonic.
This mango is from Myanmar, and is grown on commercial scale in that country for export to other parts of Asia. Also known as the "Diamond Solitaire" (not to be confused with "Diamond aka HW-14", to which it bears no relation). It is considered to be of excellent eating quality and a good producer. It has been propagated in south Florida under the name "Guava". Also possible that the mango grown in Kerala state India by the name "Priyoor" may also be the same mango as Sein Ta Lone.
The open growth habit and good production make it an excellent choice for growers and collectors alike.

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PKM1 variety for earlier and increased fruit-bearing, increased leaf yield and better taste! A hybrid variety, PKM1 was derived from Moringa oleifera and it is grown for its heavy biomass and tender leaves.
PKM1 (Periyakulam 1) is a popular, high-yielding variety of Moringa oleifera, the drumstick tree, known for its rapid growth, abundant, nutrient-rich leaves, and fast production of long, fleshy pods, making it ideal for both home gardens and commercial farming, especially in India where it originated, thriving in warm, sunny spots with well-drained soil. It offers superior nutritional content, pest resistance (like to hairy caterpillars), and quicker harvests compared to traditional types, often producing fruit within months.
Horseradish tree, one of the most useful trees in the world, produces long green pods that have been compared to a cross between peanuts and asparagus. The roots are used as a substitute for horseradish and the edible leaves make a highly nutritious vegetable. The roots have also been used in many folk remedies.

Golden African tulip tree - rare collectible variety with yellow flowers. Medium size tree. Blooms winter through spring with gorgeous tulip-like flowers. Sensitive to frost when young, but mature plants are more cold hardy.

Canela, Cinnamon Plant. Origin: Taiwan, Province of China. A beautiful small tree restricted to a few small subpopulations on Lanyu Island. Endangered species. This species is mostly used for ornamental purposes, although it is closely related to Cinnamon spice plants (C. zeylanicum, C. cassia). It makes a great container plant and indoor collectible, tolerates filtered light, grows even more beautiful leaves in shade.

Alpinia or Renealmia aromatica is a robust, perennial herbaceous plant, producing clumps of sterile stems 4-7ft tall, exceptionally to 12 ft, from a rhizomatous rootstock. The plant also produces smaller, flowering stems 1-2 ft tall. Leaves and flowers are ginger-aromatic, hence the name. It is native to S. America - Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana; C. America - Panama to Mexico; Caribbean - Leeward and Windward Isles to Cuba.
The fruits are sometimes gathered from the wild for local use as a flavoring in soups, and the plant also has minor local medicinal uses.

Tree Calliandra, Powderpuff. Calliandra houstoniana is a fast growing small tree or large shrub with fine feathery foliage and bright red fine structured powderpuff flowers. This species is very close to calliandra calothyrsis, but the flowers open fully, unlike c. calothyrsis, where the flower opens gradually from the bottom to the top.