Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
Lalot beef wraps: Quick-n-Fun exotic recipes
- 🔵Mix ground beef with garlic, shallots, and fish sauce.
- 🔵Wrap spoonfuls in Lalot leaves (Piper sarmentosum - Vietnamese pepper)
- 🔵Pan-sear or grill, until the leaves are crisp
- 🔵Serve with rice or noodles
🛒 Grow Lalot Papper for tasty, peppery recipes
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Politeness
"Nothing costs so little and is valued so highly as politeness." - Miguel de Cervantes
🐈📸 In loving memory of Cat Wesley - a lover boy at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden
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Whats inside the Devils Tongue that smells like trouble?
Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (campanulatus) - Voodoo lily
- 👹 Amorphophallus plants - the Voodoo Lilies - are also known as Devil's tongue, Snake Palm, or Elephant Foot Yam, Corpse flower. This plant has a reputation as wicked as its name!
- 👹 Amorphophallus is the largest flower in the world and one of the most exotic bizarre flowers. Amorphophallus titanum is known for its massive size, its flower can reach heights of over 10 feet and blooms only once every few years.
- 👹 Why Corpse flower? Because of the smell that the flower omits, but for only a few hours - just long enough to summon its pollinators, the flies 🐱
- 👹 The titan of the group, Amorphophallus titanum, can soar over 10 feet tall. But its cousin in this video, Amorphophallus paeoniifolius, is just as fascinating. It rises from a giant underground corm (which is actually edible in Asia), then sends up either one surreal flower or one umbrella-like leaf as big as a small tree.
- 👹 Season after season, it alternates between leaf and bloom, keeping its mysterious cycle alive. Hardy enough to rest through winter dormancy, it can even be grown in a pot at home.
After that, the air clears, leaving only the memory of the spectacle.
🎥 Amorphophallus paeoniifolius (campanulatus) - Voodoo lily
🛒 Discover more of Amorphophallus - rare and enigmatic plants
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Who was your grandpa?
Macaron: "My grandpa was a Snow Leopard!"
Jim II: "My grandpa was a Teddy Bear..."
🐈📸 Cats Macaron and Jim II bragging about their family history at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden
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Zero Sugar fruit: forget lemonade - new perfect summer drink discovered!
Costa Rican Guava, Cas Guava - Psidium friedrichsthalianum
- 🍋 Costa Rican Guava, or Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) is the boldest fruit you can grow for refreshing drinks. Its flavor is sharp, tangy, and unforgettable - perfect for anyone who loves acidic fruit. Cas Guava has sugar at all, unless you decide to add some.
- 🍋 The trees are super prolific - even young ones fruit heavily, and we make gallons of juice at Top Tropicals.
- 🍋 The best part? You can freeze the fruit or boil it into a concentrate with a bit of sugar. That drink lasts in the fridge for months without going bad, thanks to Cas Guava’s natural antibacterial punch.
- 🍋 Cas Guava juice is Costa Rica’s traditional Agua de Cas - tart, refreshing, and perfect for summer heat. And if you save enough, you’ll still be sipping it through the winter.
♨️ Agua de Cas Quick Recipe
We boiled this fruit and the drink lasted for months!
- ▫️Boil halved fruits in water with sugar to taste
- ▫️Simmer 5-10 minutes, let sit, then mash the softened fruit to release all the flavor
- ▫️Strain through a colander, bottle, and refrigerate - just dilute with water when serving
✔️ Why choose Cas Guava?
- • Packed with vitamin C - four times more than lemons - for a powerful immune boost.
- • Rich in antioxidants to combat stress and inflammation.
- • Hardy and low-maintenance, thriving in poor soils and resisting pests.
🛒 Grow your own Cas Guava
📚 Learn more:
- • What is the best fruit for summer drinks and wine?
- • What fruit is more sour and has more vitamin C than a lemon
- • What fruit can you drink? Costa Rican Cas is the Guava for Drinking
- • Costa Rican Guava
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