Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
What is a good exotic looking flowering plant for a shade garden?
Chrysothemis pulchella - Copper Leaf, Black Flamingo
- 🏀 One of the most unusual looking plants in or shade garden collection is Chrysothemis pulchella - Copper Leaf, Black Flamingo.
- 🏀 It is a spectacular tropical perennial that can be grown as a houseplant or in a greenhouse.
- 🏀 From summer to late fall it is covered with showy orange-red flowers, may bloom sporadically several times a year.
- 🏀 Forms a dense mountain of flowers and foliage.
- 🏀 The plant forms tubers at the base of the stem. By the end of fall the leaves may die back, the plant goes dormant till spring. Then it re-sprouts in Spring again.
- 🏀 Reduce water to minimum during dormancy period.
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Is it a plant or an animal? Its a Centipede Fern!
Homalocladium platycladum - Centipede Fern
- Homalocladium platycladum - Centipede Fern, Tapeworm Ribbonbush is Bizarreness!
- The Ribbon Bush is a terrific, leaf-less plant from the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific with long, flattened stems resembling tapeworms - hence its nickname "Tapeworm Plant".
- It's hard to capture the unusual beauty of this plant in pictures.
- This is an awesome, offbeat plant that will get people asking: "What the heck is that??".
- This plant needs very little care, makes a great houseplant, and is very hard to find.
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How many buttons in this ballistic mattress???
Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant
🔘 Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant: this plant is a real Nature's Wonder! The fun part is the "mattress" where the seed "buttons" grow.
🚀 The plant has strange looking receptacles. At maturity, seeds shoot ballistically from the mature flower/fruit heads, and they germinate readily whenever the land on soil or other moist substrate.
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Why Swiss Cheese Plant is so holy?
Monstera x adansonii - Baby Swiss Cheese Plant
- ☘️ Monstera x adansonii - Baby Swiss Cheese Plant, or Window Leaf Philodendron that we mentioned earlier, is rare collectible, beautiful hybrid from Columbia.
- ☘️ Leathery, "holy" foliage makes it an interesting indoor specimen. Leaves have oval holes!
- ☘️ The small nature and easy care make it a wonderful addition to any rare plant collection.
📚 Philodendrons: from the Magic Rainforest to your home
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What are the most interesting edible gingers?
Boesenbergia rotunda - Chinese Keys Ginger, Fingerroot, Kra Chai. A medicinal and culinary herb from China and Southeast Asia. It is used in Javanese cuisine in Indonesia, as well as in Thai cooking where it is called krachai. In the west it is usually found pickled or frozen. Kra Chai is used as a male tonic, vigor, health promotion, longevity, aphrodisiac.
Curcuma longa - Turmeric, Spice Turmeric, Longevity Spice, Indian Saffron. Turmeric powder might well be the healthiest spice on Earth. Made by grinding this dried root, this ancient superfood and key ingredient in curry powder has been used by Indian Ayurvedic healers for centuries.
Zingiber officinale - Spice Ginger, Cooking Ginger - the one you eat with sushi! Plant this ginger in the garden to produce your own fresh ginger for pickling or healthy lemonade.
📚 More gingers in previous posts:
5 most beautiful flowering gingers
Alpinia formosana x zerumbet Variegata - Variegated Ginger
Costus spicatus x woodsonii - Red Button Ginger, French Kiss
Hedychium coronarium - Butterfly Ginger
Kaempferia angustifolia - Laos Silver Stripe
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