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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.
🎥 Video about a mail ordered Jaboticaba tree.
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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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Now you have seen everything: multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant!
Adenium
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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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ow you have seen everything: multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant!
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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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Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina!
Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis
Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis
Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis
Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis
Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis
Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis
Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis
Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis
- 🌸 This remarkable caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis - is native to arid regions of Argentina.
- 🌸 This is a showy flowering vine growing from a large caudex! The caudex can be of some weird shapes and forms. Some old lady once said "it's a dog poo plant!"
- 🌸 Similar to Desert roses (Adeniums), it grows caudex for water storage to survive extended drought periods.
- 🌸 Caudex grows over 2 ft! Vines reach over 12 ft, covered with beautiful bell-shaped pink flowers.
- 🌸 Can be kept as a bonsai in a pot, easy to control as a container specimen with trellis or pruning.
- 🌸 Although it doesn't mind dry conditions, the plant benefits from regular watering and good drainage, then it grows fast.
- 🌸 This is one of our favorite plants, easy to grow, makes a great conversation piece. It is a perfect for bonsai
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How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?
Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)
Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)
- 🟣 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is one of the most wanted flowering tropical vines.
- 🟣 When in full bloom, it looks like a cascade of blue-purple over a fence or trellis.
- 🟣 The fun part is, crushed leaves smell like garlic, which will keep away the vampires and bad luck!
- 🟣 Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.
- 🟣 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.
📚 Garlic vine: how to get rid of bad luck
🎥 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.
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