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Why is it called Rabbits Foot Fern
Humata (Davallia) tyermannii - White Rabbits Foot Fern
Humata (Davallia) tyermannii - White Rabbits Foot Fern
Humata (Davallia) tyermannii - White Rabbits Foot Fern
⚡️ #Fun_Facts: Why is it called Rabbits Foot Fern
🐰 Humata (Davallia) tyermannii, or White Rabbits Foot Fern has fuzzy rhizomes resembling soft rabbit's feet, adding a whimsical touch to its appearance.
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🐰 Humata (Davallia) tyermannii, or White Rabbits Foot Fern has fuzzy rhizomes resembling soft rabbit's feet, adding a whimsical touch to its appearance.
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How does Zig-Zag Cactus grow
Cryptocereus anthonyanus - Zig-Zag Cactus flower
Cryptocereus anthonyanus - Zig-Zag Cactus
Cryptocereus anthonyanus - Zig-Zag Cactus
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Cryptocereus anthonyanus (Zig-Zag Cactus) has zigzag-shaped stems and beautiful night-blooming flowers that make it a fascinating addition to cactus collections.
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Cryptocereus anthonyanus (Zig-Zag Cactus) has zigzag-shaped stems and beautiful night-blooming flowers that make it a fascinating addition to cactus collections.
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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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Fun Fact: Long Leaf Anthurium
Anthurium vittarifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium
Anthurium vittarifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium
Anthurium vittarifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium
🔍 Fun Fact: Long Leaf Anthurium
💎 Anthurium vittarifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium. This rare rainforest gem flaunts leaves that can stretch up to 6 feet long, creating a stunning cascading effect when grown in hanging baskets. Plus, it surprises with bright pink, showy fruits that add a vibrant splash of color to its dramatic foliage!
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💎 Anthurium vittarifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium. This rare rainforest gem flaunts leaves that can stretch up to 6 feet long, creating a stunning cascading effect when grown in hanging baskets. Plus, it surprises with bright pink, showy fruits that add a vibrant splash of color to its dramatic foliage!
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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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What is the flower of the most expensive perfume?
Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca
Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - white flower Alba
Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca
Champaka, Joy Perfume Tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca
🏵 What is the flower of the most expensive perfume? Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree. It is the fragrance the most expensive perfume Joy is made of, and our signature flower!
The flowers from this tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - are used to make the world's most expensive perfume 'Joy' and smell like fruity bubble gum 🎀... you can't stop sticking your nose in this flower!
👼 Sacred tree of India and SE Asia
flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women
🌳 Perfect small landscape tree of a columnar shape. Ideal for containers.
🌡 Relatively cold hardy
💎 Rare collectible, a gem of any plant collection!
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The flowers from this tree - Magnolia (Michelia) champaca - are used to make the world's most expensive perfume 'Joy' and smell like fruity bubble gum 🎀... you can't stop sticking your nose in this flower!
👼 Sacred tree of India and SE Asia
flowers exude a divine fragrance that is exceedingly pleasing to the Gods... and women
🌳 Perfect small landscape tree of a columnar shape. Ideal for containers.
🌡 Relatively cold hardy
💎 Rare collectible, a gem of any plant collection!
📚 Learn more about Champaka
🛒 Shop Champaka - Joy Perfume Tree
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Brown thumb? No problem
Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl
Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl
Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl
👍🏾 Brown thumb? No problem. This is how to get an indestructible massive indoor plant that is easier than a plastic plant!
🌿 Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl is the most exceptional plant we've ever seen.
- doesn't care about water
- doesn't care about light
- doesn't care about cats messing with it
- just keeps growing, and growing, and growing...
😵 It is an indoor miracle!
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🌿 Peperomia x scandens - Emerald Girl is the most exceptional plant we've ever seen.
- doesn't care about water
- doesn't care about light
- doesn't care about cats messing with it
- just keeps growing, and growing, and growing...
😵 It is an indoor miracle!
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What fruit contains 65 times more of vitamin C than an orange? Now you know - its Barbados Cherry
Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra)
🍒 What fruit contains 65 times more of vitamin C than an orange? Now you know - it's Barbados Cherry
Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra) fruit has a vitamin C content up to 65 times that of an orange! A single fruit contains the minimum daily recommended vitamin C requirements, as well as vitamins A, B1, B2, and B3, carotenoids and bioflavonoids - great antioxidants.
If you are looing for a compact, but fast growing tree with colorful fruit that starts fruiting right away - plant Barbados Cherry. It will also happily fruit in containers.
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Barbados Cherry (Malpighia glabra) fruit has a vitamin C content up to 65 times that of an orange! A single fruit contains the minimum daily recommended vitamin C requirements, as well as vitamins A, B1, B2, and B3, carotenoids and bioflavonoids - great antioxidants.
If you are looing for a compact, but fast growing tree with colorful fruit that starts fruiting right away - plant Barbados Cherry. It will also happily fruit in containers.
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Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel
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#Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.
#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.
#Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.
#Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.
Including: #Avocado, #Mango, #Papaya, #Guava, #Jackfruit, #Loquat
📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.
🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.
♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?
🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.
👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...
🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).
🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.
✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.
#Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.
💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.
☁️ #Shade_Garden - Plants suitable for low light conditions.
🌼 #Trees - Spectacular flowering tropical trees.
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Follow these tags to find your interests:
#Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.
#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.
#Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.
#Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.
Including: #Avocado, #Mango, #Papaya, #Guava, #Jackfruit, #Loquat
📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.
🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.
♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?
🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.
👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...
🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).
🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.
✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.
#Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.
💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.
☁️ #Shade_Garden - Plants suitable for low light conditions.
🌼 #Trees - Spectacular flowering tropical trees.
🏆 #Win - Contests, Sweepstakes, and other specials.
Join and share with friends👇🏵
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What flower looks plastic
Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, flower
Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, fruit with seeds
Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, fruit
What flower looks plastic... or ceramic?
🔥 #Fun_Facts: Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple is a delightful small tree native to America with flowers looking just like they are made of porcelain! Gorgeous pink flowers with mauve throats look almost artificial. The tree happily blooms in shade, and the fruit resembles a small apple and is enjoyed by birds and wildlife. Very undemanding plant.
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🔥 #Fun_Facts: Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple is a delightful small tree native to America with flowers looking just like they are made of porcelain! Gorgeous pink flowers with mauve throats look almost artificial. The tree happily blooms in shade, and the fruit resembles a small apple and is enjoyed by birds and wildlife. Very undemanding plant.
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