Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
What is Jaboticaba? It sounds so cool!
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit on a tree
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) fruit
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) is the most popular native fruit of Brazil that famous Brazilian Vine La Vino Tinto is made of!🍷
- 🟣 Grape-like purple fruit with a thick skin and delicious melting pulp somewhat resembling Northern Black Currant in flavor.
- 🟣 Trees grow very slowly and due to small leaves and dwarfish growth habit are often used as bonsai. Some old bonsai specimens can fruit.
- 🟣 Larger specimens are very valuable because it takes Jaboticaba up to 7 years from seed to start fruiting.
- 🟣 Similar to Mamey, Jaboticaba has cauliflorous fruit - that grow on main stems or woody trunks.
- 🟣 Jaboticaba is relatively cold hardy, mature trees are taking down to 23 F for short periods without serious damage.
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How June plum can fruit itself to death: look at this heavy load!
DWARF June plum, Ambarella (Spondias cytherea)
This exciting fruit tree will amaze you with its ability to fruit abundantly at a young age and small size. This is a DWARF variety of June plum, or Ambarella (Spondias cytherea).
- ✳️ Grows as a compact 6-7 ft tree.
- ✳️ Very aromatic fruit, Its feel and juiciness resembles that of a mango (it's Mango's close relative) but with completely different, delicious flavor.
- ✳️ Expect heavy fruit production within a year. Starts fruiting in winter and holds the fruit up to 6-8 months and more.
- ✳️ Perfect containerDWARF variety of June plum, or Ambarella (Spondias cytherea). fruit tree.
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What is the most bizarre flower? Starfish Flower
Starfish Flower (Stapelia gigantea), Carrion plant, Zulu Giant.
- ✴️ Large, up to 12" wide flowers in shape of Star Fish.
- ✴️ Another name Carrion refers to its unique scent, similar to rotting meat. Oddly enough, pollinating flies can't resist it
- ✴️ The plant looks like a cactus, but it's really not, belonging to Milkweed family.
- ✴️ Makes a stunning container plant and a conversation piece!
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Can you grow a Crocodile? This is how to grow an Alligator
Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern
Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern
Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern
Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, Crocodile Fern
Microsorum musifolium - Alligator Fern, or Crocodile Fern - is from Australasia.
👽 Very unusual looking, epiphytic fern with cool alligator-skin looking leaves. The strikingly shaped, light green fronds of the fern form a lovely backdrop to its stunning stiff, leathery, dark green alligator-skin foliage.
Grows to 2-3 ft in height. Grow it as a houseplant, or plant under a tree.
🌳 Perfect for shade! Likes a sheltered, semi-shaded location, with no direct sunlight.
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What is Jaboticaba? I like the sound of this word!
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) is the most popular native fruit of Brazil that famous Brazilian Vine La Vino Tinto is made of!🍷
🟣 Grape-like purple fruit with a thick skin and delicious melting pulp somewhat resembling Northern Black Currant in flavor.
🟣 Trees grow very slowly and due to small leaves and dwarfish growth habit are often used as bonsai. Some old bonsai specimens can fruit.
🟣 Larger specimens are very valuable because it takes Jaboticaba up to 7 years from seed to start fruiting.
🟣 Similar to Mamey, Jaboticaba has cauliflorous fruit - that grow on main stems or woody trunks.
🟣 Jaboticaba is relatively cold hardy, mature trees are taking down to 23 F for short periods without serious damage.
🎥 Video about a mail ordered Jaboticaba tree.
🛒 Shop Jaboticaba trees
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Who thinks this is an Eggplant? Do you? What is it?
Correct answer:
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Fire on top of the tree! What is it bursting with orange brilliance? Meet Colvilles Glory
Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory
Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory
Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory
Colvillea racemosa, Colvilles Glory
Colvillea racemosa, also known as Colvilles Glory, is a stunning specimen tree renowned for its vibrant orange flowers that bloom in fall.
- 🟠 Fast growing tree able to reach heights of 30-50 ft
- 🟠 Striking addition to any landscape where you need to grow a tree quickly.
- 🟠 Fern-like foliage that may shed in cooler winters offers a captivating display with its long inflorescences and bright yellow stamens.
- 🟠 Drought-tolerant and resistant to pests.
- 🟠 Easy-to-care-for and relatively cold hardy.
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What is this spiny Hedgehog fruit and how does it taste?
Annona montana - Mountain Soursop, Hedgehog Annona
Annona montana - Mountain Soursop, Hedgehog Annona
Annona montana - Mountain Soursop, Hedgehog Annona
👀 This is one of the coolest looking tropical fruit!
Annona montana - Mountain Soursop or Hedgehog Annona. It is also called Wild Custard Apple, Guanabana de Monte, or Wild Soursop.
- 📍 This fruit is prized for its deliciously sweet and tangy fruit, reminiscent of a blend between pineapple and strawberry. It tastes similar to regular Soursop (or Guanabana), with slightly milder flavor. The pulp is highly scented.
- 📍 The fruit, up to a pound, has the most unusual looks! Just look at these curious Hedgehog spines!
- 📍 The tree is medium sized, with beautiful, large, leathery dark green leaves that emit a strong aroma when crushed.
- 📍 Mountain Soursop is much more cold hardy than the Soursop, established trees can take some frost, down to 24F when full grown.
- 📍 Trees produce within just 2-3 years from seed, like many Annonas, and can happily grow and produce in a large container.
👨👧 We guarantee that everyone who sees this fruit in your garden will ask for seeds even before they taste the fruit! And you will have lots of seeds to share because Mountain Soursop is very reliable producer with many seeds in each fruit.
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Why exotic Mamey fruit is so much wanted?
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote
Pouteria sapota, Mamey Sapote
Pouteria sapota, or Mamey Sapote - is Cuban favorite. It is considered by Cubans to produce the best fruit in the world.
🍹 The fruit has delicious bright orange soft flesh, sweet and pumpkin-like in flavor. The Mamey fruit is eaten fresh, in milk shakes and ice cream.
👀 Mamey has a curious growth habit: flowers emerge in clusters in the axils of fallen leaves along the branches, followed by the showy fruit. This is called cauliflorous - plants that flower and fruit from their main stems or woody trunks. Other examples are Cucumber tree and Jaboticaba.
🌳 Mamey is a slow growing, compact tree, but needs some space to spread the branches. It normally grows 20 ft in height and 20 ft wide.
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Have you ever seen a hibiscus like that? This flower will blow your mind!
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- ♦️ When the flowers bloom, they create a beautiful, ethereal effect, which has led to the association with the term "skeleton." This unique characteristic sets it apart from other hibiscus varieties, hence the distinctive moniker.
- ♦️ Spectacular weeping tree shape, it has slender and gracefully curved stems.
- ♦️ Rare and hard to find.
- ♦️ Grows rapidly and blooms freely.
- ♦️ Can be trained into a showy standard.
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