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Katuk egg stir-fry: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes
🍴 Katuk egg stir-fry: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes
🛒 Add healthy Katuk to your perennial vegetable garden
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🟢Saute chopped Katuk leaves (Sauropus androgynus) with garlic and a touch of soy sauce- 🟢Shen scramble in eggs.
- 🟢Fast, simple, healthy, and full of flavor!
🛒 Add healthy Katuk to your perennial vegetable garden
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The only animal that laughs
💩 The only animal that laughs
"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be." - William Hazlitt
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"Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be." - William Hazlitt
🐈📸 Cat Bob is laughing at us at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden
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When plants cross into the Gothic: the Darker Bat Lily
Black Bat Lily (Tacca chantrieri)
When plants cross into the Gothic: the Darker Bat Lily
🛒 Add this gothic gem to your collection - Black Tacca
Tacca colors: Black, White, Green:
Tacca nivea - White Tacca
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca
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- 🖤 Here’s a striking look at the Black Bat Lily (Tacca chantrieri) - its dramatic dark bracts resembling bat wings, trailing whiskers, and tropical elegance all in one. If you met its cousin, the White Bat Head Lily (Tacca nivea) in earlier video, you'll notice the family resemblance - same dramatic whiskers and wing-like bracts, but this one leans fully into the dark side.
- 🖤 The Black Bat Flower isn’t just a bloom - it's a full performance. Giant black-maroon"wings" stretch out like a bat in flight, while long, drooping filaments dangle like eerie whiskers or jungle jewelry - some over a foot long!
- 🖤 Those weird, wild whiskers aren't just for show either. They're thought to mimic the look (and no, not the smell!) of decaying matter, luring in pollinators like flies. Creepy? Yes. Clever? Absolutely.
- 🖤 The Black Bat Flower blooms best when it feels pampered: filtered light, steady warmth, and spa-level humidity. It’s a smart exotic for a greenhouse or even a bright bathroom with a skylight.
- 🖤 It grows from a rhizome, and while Tacca chantrieri is prized for its gothic looks, its green cousin Tacca leontopetaloides is actually used in the tropics to make arrowroot starch.
- 🖤 Patience is part of the package - sometimes it takes months to bloom. But when it does, it becomes the crown jewel of the collection. People will ask if it's real. You'll just smile and say, "Yes - and it lives here."
🛒 Add this gothic gem to your collection - Black Tacca
Tacca colors: Black, White, Green:
Tacca nivea - White Tacca
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca
📚 Learn more:
- ▫️The mystery of the White Bat Lily - the plant with wings and whiskers
- ▫️ A flying bat with whiskers
- ▫️ The rarest Green Tacca - Tacca leontopetaloides
- ▫️ When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom
- ▫️ Bat Head - Devil Flower
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Advantage of a rainy day
Cat Philemon in a swing
😭 Advantage of a rainy day
"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
🐈📸 Cat Philemon is hanging out is his own swing at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden
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"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain." - Dolly Parton
🐈📸 Cat Philemon is hanging out is his own swing at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden
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Helicopter flower Madhavi - the Spring Herald that clings to a Mango Tree
🚁 Helicopter flower Madhavi - the Spring Herald that clings to a Mango Tree
🍥 Helicopter Flower? The name comes from its funny three-winged seed pods that spin like little helicopters. But the real show happens when it blooms. Clusters of pink-white-and-yellow flowers appear in profusion, with frilly petals and a fruity perfume that can stop you in your tracks. Best of all, it flowers in winter and early spring, just when most other plants are quiet, so it fills the air with fragrance at a time you need it most.
🍥 Hiptage is easy-going and adaptable. It can be trimmed as a shrub, trained into a small tree, or let go as a climber, but be ready to give it space and strong support if you let it vine. It's fast-growing, tolerant of different soils, and happy in either sun or part shade. You can even keep it in a container and trim it into a rounded bush.
🍥 In India, the Helicopter Flower is called Madhavi - the Spring Herald, and often paired with mango trees in stories and gardens - the sturdy mango holding up this vigorous fragrant vine, symbolizing love, devotion, and the union of strength with beauty. Planting the two together makes for a striking, symbolic pair!
🍥 For gardeners, it's the rare combination of beauty, fragrance, adaptability, and a good story to tell. A plant that not only perfumes your garden but also brings a touch of legend to it.
🍥 Used medicinally in India.
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🍥 Hiptage benghalensis
🍥 Helicopter Flower? The name comes from its funny three-winged seed pods that spin like little helicopters. But the real show happens when it blooms. Clusters of pink-white-and-yellow flowers appear in profusion, with frilly petals and a fruity perfume that can stop you in your tracks. Best of all, it flowers in winter and early spring, just when most other plants are quiet, so it fills the air with fragrance at a time you need it most.
🍥 Hiptage is easy-going and adaptable. It can be trimmed as a shrub, trained into a small tree, or let go as a climber, but be ready to give it space and strong support if you let it vine. It's fast-growing, tolerant of different soils, and happy in either sun or part shade. You can even keep it in a container and trim it into a rounded bush.
🍥 In India, the Helicopter Flower is called Madhavi - the Spring Herald, and often paired with mango trees in stories and gardens - the sturdy mango holding up this vigorous fragrant vine, symbolizing love, devotion, and the union of strength with beauty. Planting the two together makes for a striking, symbolic pair!
🍥 For gardeners, it's the rare combination of beauty, fragrance, adaptability, and a good story to tell. A plant that not only perfumes your garden but also brings a touch of legend to it.
🍥 Used medicinally in India.
🛒 Bring Perfume Spring Herald to your garden
#Perfume_Plants #Hedges_with_benefits
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