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Is this Adenium?

🌸 Is this Adenium? No, its a Morning Glory!

🌸 This remarkable caudiciform Morning Glory -Ipomoea platensis- is growing from a large caudex! The caudex can be of some weird shapes and forms. Similar to Desert roses (Adeniums), it grows caudex for water storage to survive extended drought periods. 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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A beauty from Argentina

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Date: 8 Oct 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Is this Adenium?

caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

🌸 Is this Adenium? No, its a Morning Glory!

🌸 This remarkable caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis - is growing from a large caudex! The caudex can be of some weird shapes and forms. Similar to Desert roses (Adeniums), it grows caudex for water storage to survive extended drought periods. 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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A beauty from Argentina

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Date: 7 Oct 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

I swear I am a cat!

👅 I swear I am a cat!

🐕‍�"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

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Date: 7 Oct 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to use your yard instead of being used by your yard? Grow your own food - we can help! Sound on

How to use your yard instead of being used by your yard? Grow your own food - we can help!

🌳 How to use your yard instead of being used by your yard? Grow your own food - we can help! Sound on 🎶

😩 "I want to buy some Mango fruit for my kids but prices continue to skyrocket! How can we afford healthy food? I wish I could grow money, like that useless grass in the yard – it grows faster than we can mow it!"

You don't have to grow money, grow the fruit. Use your yard instead of being used by your yard: grow your own mango and stay happy!

⬆️ Start your own Food Forest today by planting the edible landscape. Plant a tree today and enjoy your fruit tomorrow!

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Eight most spectacular gingers

Photo above: Costus arabicus - Spiral Ginger

Q: I grow ginger for cooking, but I know that some varieties have showy flowers. What gingers can you recommend as ornamentals?

A: Ginger is famous for its culinary and medicinal uses, and many species are also strikingly beautiful, making them perfect centerpieces for tropical gardens or potted plant collections, especially in shaded spots. Here are a few of our favorite cultivars.

1. Yellow Butterfly Ginger

Hedychium flavum x coronarium - Yellow Butterfly Ginger, Nardo Ginger Lily - rare hybrid of White Butterfly ginger we mentioned earlier (https://t.me/TopTropicals/710), it is more vigorous and tall than its parent. With attractive long green leaves with a slight fuzziness, this ginger has open long spikes of pastel yellow flowers with a beautiful heady aroma. Exquisitely fragrant!

2. Variegated Spiral Ginger

Costus arabicus (amazonicus) variegata - Variegated Spiral Ginger - is a tropical stunner originally from South America but adored in Hawaii and Florida. This ginger's eye-catching, spiraling stems are streaked with striking white variegation, topped with elegant pure white flowers with yellow centers. The pure white blooms are truly a piece of art! Perfect for shade gardens, this plant thrives in moist soil and loves plenty of water. If you're looking to add a bit of drama and elegance to your garden, this beauty is a must-have!

3. Pine Cone (Shampoo) Ginger

Zingiber Zerumbet - Pine Cone Ginger, Shampoo Ginger - is probably the most popular one. All parts of this ginger are spicy fragrant. The cone shaped flowers are long lasting and useful for cut flower arrangements. It is in fact used as a shampoo in Asia and Hawaii, and as an ingredient in several commercial shampoos! Pinecone ginger is considered a "canoe plant", that is, a plant introduced throughout the Pacific by the ancient Polynesian settlers.

4. Spiral Raspberry Ginger

Costus vargasii - Spiral Ginger Raspberry Yogurt - The name refers to the colorful raspberry colored stem, but that's not the only colorful thing about it: the leaves are dark green, long and glossy with velvety deep purple undersides. The inflorescence is a vivid red with tight bracts and bold yellow flowers. The butterflies love to drink the nectar from the flowers. Large vigorous ginger, growing up to 5-6 ft tall.

5. Cameroon Costus African Princess

Costus fissiligulatus - African Princess, Cameroon Costus - from Gabon in West Africa. It has a dazzling pink trumpet flower with a yellow throat. It is very floriferous with an inflorescence of numerous flower buds on a shortish plant of 3-4 ft that stands very erect. It is an easy grower.

6. Red Button Ginger (French Kiss)

Costus spicatus x woodsonii - Red Button Ginger, French Kiss: this ginger's inflorescence resembles a cluster of bright red buttons, making it a standout in tropical gardens.

7. White Butterfly Ginger

Hedychium coronarium - White Butterfly Ginger is a must for every Southern garden. It is famous for its intense, sweet scent. Symbol of Hawaiian Paradise along with Plumeria and Jasmine. It is popular in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands for leis and hair adornments and bears fragrant, butterfly-resembling flowers in summer. It has long lasting cut flowers, ideal for scenting the home. Can survive light freezes, with tops regrowing in the spring. Takes sun or shade.

8. Laos Silver Stripe Peacock Ginger

Kaempferia angustifolia - Laos Silver Stripe is one of the most beautiful of all the Kaempferia Peacock Ginger cultivars. It is one of the large types. The plant has boldly striped leaves of green and silver. The flowers are orchid shaped white and purple. Small, compact perennial, great for container culture. This hard to find variety is a must for every Ginger collector.

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Eight most spectacular gingers

1. Yellow Butterfly Ginger

2. Variegated Spiral Ginger

3. Pine Cone (Shampoo) Ginger

4. Spiral Raspberry Ginger

5. Cameroon Costus African Princess

6. Red Button Ginger (French Kiss)

7. White Butterfly Ginger

8. Laos Silver Stripe Peacock Ginger

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