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Can you eat bird-looking flowers? You can eat the whole tree!
Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree
Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree Red flower
Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree White flower
Can you eat bird-looking flowers? You can eat the whole tree!
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- 🐧 Sesbania grandiflora - Hummingbird Tree - is named for its flowers resembling little birds.
- 🐧 It produces a mass of large, 3-4", curved flowers from November to June. Flowers can be coral red or white.
- 🐧 The fun part is - the flowers are edible! As well as the rest of the plant: tender leaves, green fruit (bean pods), and flowers, used in curries, salads, or fried in batter.
- 🐧 Medicinal uses: bark, leaves, gums, and flowers have medicinal properties.
- 🐧 Lower branches form a beautiful floral canopy. It is a fast growing, but a small tree that will fit any yard. Great everblooming tree for container culture.
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Who wants a cold hardy, dramatic looking tropical fruit tree with a sweet fruit? Or, who doesnt?
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
Persimmon (Diospyros sp.)
🍯 Who wants a cold hardy, dramatic looking tropical fruit tree with a sweet fruit? Or, who doesn't?
📚 How to grow Persimmon tree
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- 🍑 Persimmon (Diospyros sp.) is a graceful, small, subtropical fruit tree from China, with multitrunked or single-stemmed structure and drooping leaves and branches, turning dramatic shades in autumn.
- 🍑 People love Persimmon fruit for its sweet and unique flavor, often described as a blend of honey and apricot.
- 🍑 The tree thrives in deep, well-drained loam soil, tolerating alkaline conditions.
- 🍑 The fruit classified into astringent (soft, sweeter pulp) and non-astringent (crunchy) cultivars.
- 🍑 Best Varieties for Container Culture:
- 🍑 Hardy to USDA zones 7-10, may need protection in colder regions.
Non-Astringent: Fuyu, Giant Fuyu, Matsumoto-Wase, Jiro, Maekawa, Izu.
Astringent: Chocolate, Guang Yang, Hachiya, Meader, Saijo, Tanenashi, Winterset.
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What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea and Egyptian pyramids
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea
What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood...
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- Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - existed for more than 4800 year! It's been widely consumed in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Documented in India since 2,800 BC; reached Ancient Egypt around 2,200 BC.
- Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy food, with potential to become widely popular like Japanese sushi 🍱
- It is a showy perennial woody shrub or small tree, 4-8 ft tall, with soft leaves. Can be grown in container
- Pretty flowers are yellow, with purple or red streaks, pods containing oval to round seeds.
- Many culinary uses: the tasty and healthy beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable.
- Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc).
- Medicinal value: various folk medicinal uses for sores, bladderstones, jaundice, skin irritations, bronchitis, coughs, pneumonia, toothache, dysentery, and more.
- Everyone can grow it! The plant is super easy, tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans.
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How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba?
Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator
Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator
Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator
Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator
Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator
🍇 How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba?
In fact, they are very much alike! Just different species of Myrciaria that has somewhat smaller growth habit, which makes it an excellent container fruit tree! It also is much more productive.
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In fact, they are very much alike! Just different species of Myrciaria that has somewhat smaller growth habit, which makes it an excellent container fruit tree! It also is much more productive.
- 🔵 Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator is a beautiful slow growing tree or shrub. It bears dark purple, almost bluish fruits, with thin, sweet flesh that taste somewhat like sweet grapes.
- 🔵 Fruits are borne in late Spring or early Fall and usually eaten fresh or used in drinks.
- 🔵 The plant is little known in cultivation, yet the fruits are of equal or superior quality to regular Jaboticaba that we mentioned earlier. A single bush may produce several thousand fruits!
- 🔵 Blue Jaboticaba can tolerate light frost when established.
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What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?
Coffee tree in a cup
Coffee tree flowers
Coffee tree in a pot
Coffee tree fruit
☕️ What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?
No doubt about it - it's a Coffee tree!
🎁 Coffee is a perfect gift plant and a great indoor container fruit tree.
🎥 Coffee Tree Showcase · Grow your own: Free Coffee Everyday
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No doubt about it - it's a Coffee tree!
- 🔸 Coffee is the most popular fruit tree suitable for indoors.
- 🔸 Coffee is shade loving plant, easy to grow, providing regular water.
- 🔸 Coffee grows into a beautiful dark green shrub or small tree.
- 🔸 The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related.
- 🔸 The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red.
- 🔸 The seeds are the actual "coffee beans", they can easily be dried, roasted and ground at home.
🎁 Coffee is a perfect gift plant and a great indoor container fruit tree.
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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
🍇 What is Jaboticaba? It sounds so cool!
Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) is the most popular native fruit of Brazil that famous Brazilian Vine La Vino Tinto is made of!🍷
🎥 Video about a mail ordered Jaboticaba tree.
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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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If you are missing Northern fruit that dont tolerate hot climate, here is the answer -
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
🍇 If you are missing Northern fruit that don't tolerate hot climate, here is the answer - Mysore Raspberry thrives in heat!
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus) is from India.
🔹 Unlike common raspberries from up North that can not tolerate heat, Mysore Raspberry grows very well in hot humid climates.
🔹 Grows very fast into a scrambling shrub with flexible stems.
🔹 Blooms and fruits throughout the year.
🔹 The fruit turns purple black when ripe, it is very juicy and sweet.
🔹 One cluster may contain as many as couple dozen fruit.
🔹 Great for large containers and will produce large amounts of fruit.
🔹 Cold hardy to upper 20s F.
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Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus) is from India.
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Number one Sweet Raspberry for your dessert! For the previous post
Tropical Raspberry Mysore (Rubus albescens x niveus)
🍇 Number one Sweet Raspberry for your dessert! For the previous post👆
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Why Noni is a superfood?
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree, fruit
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree, fruit
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree fruit and flower
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree juice
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree
💪 Why Noni is a superfood?
We mentioned Noni fruit in our previous post as a fruit that keeps you young.
This beautiful small tree with lush foliage is very undemanding, and can be grown as a houseplant.
What is the secret of Noni power?
Noni juice, derived from the fruit of the Morinda citrifolia tree, has many medicinal effects:
1 Antioxidant properties: lowering the risk of chronic diseases.
2 Anti-inflammatory effects: help conditions like arthritis.
3 Immune system support: immune-boosting due to its high content of vitamin C and other compounds, reducing the risk of infections.
4 Digestive health: improves digestion and regularity.
5 Pain relief: joint pain, headaches, and cramps.
6 Cardiovascular health: lowers cholesterol levels and improves blood circulation
7 Liver health: protects the liver from damage caused by toxins and free radicals
8 Anti-cancer properties: may help inhibit the growth of cancer cells
9 Skin health: soothes irritated skin, promote wound healing
10 Energy and vitality: boosts energy levels, improves stamina.
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We mentioned Noni fruit in our previous post as a fruit that keeps you young.
This beautiful small tree with lush foliage is very undemanding, and can be grown as a houseplant.
What is the secret of Noni power?
Noni juice, derived from the fruit of the Morinda citrifolia tree, has many medicinal effects:
1 Antioxidant properties: lowering the risk of chronic diseases.
2 Anti-inflammatory effects: help conditions like arthritis.
3 Immune system support: immune-boosting due to its high content of vitamin C and other compounds, reducing the risk of infections.
4 Digestive health: improves digestion and regularity.
5 Pain relief: joint pain, headaches, and cramps.
6 Cardiovascular health: lowers cholesterol levels and improves blood circulation
7 Liver health: protects the liver from damage caused by toxins and free radicals
8 Anti-cancer properties: may help inhibit the growth of cancer cells
9 Skin health: soothes irritated skin, promote wound healing
10 Energy and vitality: boosts energy levels, improves stamina.
🛒 Get your own Noni Tree
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Hot-hot-hot HEART! Yet so tasty and flavorful! How hot is it, really?
Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper
Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper
Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper
🌶 Hot-hot-hot HEART! Yet so tasty and flavorful! How hot is it, really?
🔥 Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper ❤️-shaped!❤️ An exceptionally distinct pepper, an ancient hybrid of Capsicum annuum (bird pepper) and Capsicum chinense (habanero group).
❤️ While of small size (1"), these heart-shaped red fruits are prolifically produced along the branches of compact plants.
❤️ Extremely showy, ornamental peppers with culinary benefits. Great for container garden.
❤️ What separates this variety from others is its unique intense fruity habanero flavor which packs quite a bang! 💥
❤️ For abundant crops, fertilizer with Sunshine C-Cibus plant booster.
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🔥 Capsicum annuum x chinense - Biquinho Pepper ❤️-shaped!
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