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Date: 17 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Mango Rainbow tasting table: whats the taste of that Mango variety?

Mango Rainbow tasting table

🌈 Mango Rainbow tasting table: what's the taste of that Mango variety?

We just had a mango tasting table of a few early and mid-season varieties and here is our impression:

🟠 Tommy Atkins (purple) - the earliest variety, sweet a juicy, but a bit fibrous. The fruit is super colorful! The tree is an excellent producer, vigorous and problem-free.
🟠 Haden (red) - a full sweet flavor, less fibrous than Tommy. Very colorful, large fruit.
🟠 Florigon (yellow-green, round) - completely fibreless, sweet and flavor is somewhat mild pineapple-like.
🟠 Baptiste (bright yellow) - very sweet, firm flesh, good flavor.
🟠 Val Carrie (green elongated) - reminds large Asian mangoes, with firm flesh, very sweet, fibreless and juicy. It is a cross between Valencia Pride (large fruit) and Carrie (excellent flavor). It took the best from its parents. Very aromatic flesh has no fiber at all.
🟠 Kent (large green-and-red) - excellent flavor, large size, and very little fiber. Eat before fruit gets too ripe.

❔ What Mango varieties have you tried this year?
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📝 See also earlier posts:

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Date: 17 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to add color to your yard

🌈 How to add color to your yard.

🔜 Lovely Cassias we mentioned in earlier post are in full bloom today - they love the Summer Heat! They are our favorite Summer flowers.
🔜 Cassia (Senna) trees are compact, fast growing, tolerant to drought and poor soils, free-flowering and relatively cold hardy. Always a great choice!
🔜 Cassias come in several colors: yellow, orange, pink, red and rainbow.
🔜 Yellow-flowering cassias:

Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca)

🔜 Pink/red and multi-color Rainbow cassias (which are hybrids between yellow and pink cassias):

Cassia grandis - Red Cassia
Cassia javanica - Apple Blossom Tree
Cassia marginata - Rainbow Shower Tree
Cassia roxburghii - Ceylon Senna
Cassia x nodosa - Pink Shower, Appleblossom.

❔ What cassias do you have in your garden?
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Date: 19 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is the best flowering shrub for a shady spot?

Aphelandra hartwegiana - Yellow Aphelandra

Aphelandra squarrosa - White Zebra Plant

Aphelandra sinclairiana - Panama Queen

Aphelandra x panamensis - Scarlet Candle

💐 What is the best flowering shrub for a shady spot?

🚩 Aphelandra is hands down one of the best solutions for a shade garden where you want to see more colors. It is a great addition to a collectible tropical butterfly garden, can grow into 4-5" tall bushy specimen. Tolerates both sun and shade.
🚩Aphelandras have beautiful lush foliage and showy, long terminal inflorescences throughout the warm season.
🚩These flowers are loved by hummingbirds.
🚩Aphelandra hartwegiana - Yellow Aphelandra. Yellow flowers emerge out of long orange stalks in the fall time. Pretty and unusual!
🚩Aphelandra squarrosa Dania (Snow White) - White Zebra Plant. It is also one of the best house plants, not only pretty because of its white-veined "Zebra" foliage, but also for the apical inflorescence with its beautiful yellow bracts.
🚩Aphelandra sinclairiana - Panama Queen, has extremely tropical look and fragrant flowers of unusual color combination: orange and pink.
🚩Aphelandra x panamensis - Scarlet Candle - a rare hybrid with bright red flowers

📚 Learn more from previous posts:
Panama Queen
How to grow Zebra in container?

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Date: 18 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why is it called Blue Butterfly?

Clerodendrum ugandense - Blue Butterfly

⚡️ #Fun_Facts: Why is it called Blue Butterfly?

Clerodendrum ugandense (Blue Butterfly): This plant's blue flowers and butterfly-like shape attract butterflies and other pollinators to the garden. So this plant is all about butterflies!

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Date: 11 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What Tree Calliandra brings into your garden?

Calliandra houstoniana - Tree Calliandra

Calliandra houstoniana - Tree Calliandra, flower

⚡️ #Fun_Facts: Tree Calliandra

🎉 Calliandra houstoniana - Tree Calliandra - is the only tree form of Powderpuff. It quickly grows into a bushy beautiful tree in just one season, and fluffy pink flowers attract hummingbirds and butterflies year around

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Date: 7 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to grow Popcorn with pretty flowers

Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia)

🍿 How to grow Popcorn with pretty flowers

🌽 Cassia didymobotrya (Popcorn Cassia) is a fun plant! When rubbed, its leaves emit a scent similar to buttered popcorn, hence its name.
🌽 It blooms with beautiful large clusters of sunny yellow flowers.
🌽 Perfect fast growing flowering shrub - ideal for places where you want to see a showy, pretty plant quickly
🌽 Butterfly magnet - one of the favorite flowers for all kinds of butterflies! Everyone who is working on a butterfly garden, plants Popcorn Cassia

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Date: 22 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Need more ideas for compact and showy flowering trees? Try Rainbow Cassias

Rainbow cassia - Cassia Marginata.

🌈 Need more ideas for compact and showy flowering trees? Try Rainbow Cassias.

♦️ Some hybrid cassias have spectacular color combinations and are called Rainbow Cassias.
♦️ We mentioned earlier some sunny, yellow-flowering cassias: Senna surattensis (Cassia glauca) - Scrambled Egg Bush, and Cassia siamea - Kassod Tree.
♦️ Other cassias can be pink or with multi-color flower combination, so-called Rainbow cassias (which are hybrids between yellow and pink cassias):

♦️ Cassia trees are compact, fast growing, tolerant to drought and poor soils, free-flowering and relatively cold hardy. Always a great choice!

❓ What cassias do you have in your garden? Share photos in comments👇

🎥 Rainbow cassia - Cassia Marginata.

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Date: 21 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why is it called Clock Vine?

Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine

👁 Why is it called Clock Vine? It will cover a Pagoda in NO TIME!

🕰 Thunbergia mysorensis - Clock Vine - is a stunning vine originating from India.
🕰 Vibrant yellow flowers with a dark mauve border, of a unique, eye-catching shape.
🕰 Supposedly, it is called the Clock Vine because the flowers hang down in a regular, clock-like pattern around the vine. This consistent and orderly arrangement of the blooms resembles the numbers on a clock face, giving the plant its charming and unique name. Do you see it in the flower?
🕰 The blooms hang in cascading clusters, creating a spectacular display that can beautifully drape over a trellis or pagoda.
🕰 Attaracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
🕰 Though it's one of the most popular species among garden enthusiasts, its rarity adds an element of exclusivity to any garden lucky enough to host it.

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Date: 19 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!

Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower

🍞 Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!

🍔 Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower - is one of the most impressive tropical vines that is very popular in Thailand and other South-East Asia countries.
🍔 Moderate growth woody climber with clusters of freshly-baked-bread fragrant white flowers.
🍔 Easy to care and tolerates wide range of conditions. It can be trained as a compact bush and is good for container culture.
🍔 Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
🍔 Relatively cold hardy, mild frost doesn't do any damage to it, even large tropical leaves stay glossy, green and healthy.
🍔 It is very vigorous grower that can create nice privacy hedge or cover a large fence.

❓ Have you smelled the Bread Flower? Did you like the fragrance? Share in comments👇

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Date: 18 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, with Monarch Butterfly

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Red

Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, Yello

🔥 Everyone wants this showy Butterfly Attractor! Dwarf Poinciana.

🟥 Caesalpinia pulcherrima - Dwarf Poinciana, that we mentioned earlier, is probably number 1 flowering plant that everybody wants in their garden.
🟥 Pride of Barbados, Dwarf Poinciana, Peacock flower, Flower Fence - common names speak for themselves.
🟥 National flower of Barbados.
🟥 Comes in different colors - red, yellow, pink, orange...
🟥 Eye-stopper! Showy flowers almost year round.
🟥 Butterfly magnet

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