Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 6 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Horny plant hanging in the air

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Horny plant hanging in the air...

👀 Staghorn fern (Platycerium) is one of those #Nature_Wonders... Everyone who sees it, wants to have one!
👀 Showy, tropical looking epiphyte that can be grown on a tree or in a large hanging basket.
👀 It is able to grow high in the trees of the rainforest, often grows in large masses.
👀 Long, pendulous, much bifurcated fertile fronds produce spores on special cup-shaped appendages. Basal fronds form a crown-shaped basket.

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Date: 15 Jun 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Is it real or porcelain? Discover the flower that fools the eye!

Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower

Is it real... or porcelain? Discover the tree that fools the eye!

🔮 Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower has pink blooms so perfect they look fake! This easygoing tree thrives in both sun or shade and even feeds birds with its apple-like fruit. Great undemanding yet unusual flowering plant for container in a shady spot.

🛒Add a touch of porcelain magic to your garden

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A flower that looks plastic ceramic

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Date: 3 Jul 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Coral-blooming bonsai with a bottle-shaped trunk - perfect container plant

🔥 Coral-blooming bonsai with a bottle-shaped trunk - perfect container plant

Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant - is a one-of-a-kind tropical showpiece with a knobby, swollen caudex, massive umbrella-like leaves, and bright coral-red flowers that pop like underwater treasures.
Compact and only 2-3 feet tall, it's perfect for containers, bonsai lovers, and small gardens craving something bold and unusual. It thrives in partial shade, grows giant leaves in low light, and needs little water to stay happy. Easy-care and eye-catching, it's more than a plant it’s a conversation starter.

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Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals

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Date: 13 Aug 2025 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Natures weirdest flower? This ones in the running

⭐️ Nature’s weirdest flower? This one’s in the running

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Date: 5 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why Pharaoh Mask has stunning 3D effect?

Colocasia Pharaoh Mask

🎭 Why Pharaoh Mask has stunning 3D effect?

👺 Colocasia Pharaoh Mask (tm) that we mentioned earlier is flourishing today in our garden!
👺 Vibrant green leaves highlighted by striking purple veins, giving a distinct 3D appearance.
👺 As they mature, the leaf edges curl, enhancing the purple veins. Each leaf, supported by sturdy, dark stems matching the veins' color, resembles a masquerade mask.
👺 A cluster of these plants creates a striking visual with its unique foliage and dark stems, standing out among other elephant ears.
👺 It's a must-have for any rare plant collector and is sure to be a showstopper and conversation piece!

📸 More pictures in next post

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Date: 30 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How many buttons in this ballistic mattress???

Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant

🐾 How many buttons in this ballistic mattress???

🔘 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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Date: 31 Jul 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Is it a plant or an animal? Its a Centipede Fern!

Homalocladium platycladum - Centipede Fern

Is it a plant or an animal? It's a Tapeworm Ribbonbush!

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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Date: 24 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Would you like a Bat Head?

Bat Head Lily, Bat Flower, Devil Flower or Tacca Lily

Would you like a Bat Head?

The Bat Head Lily we mentioned earlier - is blooming again!

🙈 Bat Head Lily, Bat Flower, Devil Flower or Tacca Lily - is one of the most exotic and bizarre flowers along with Amorphophallus, Sausage Tree and Clitoria.

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Date: 8 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Spooky! Bat Head - Devil Flower here

Bat Head Lily, Bat Flower, Devil Flower - Tacca Lily White

Bat Head Lily, Bat Flower, Devil Flower - Tacca Lily Black

Bat Head Lily, Bat Flower, Devil Flower - Tacca Lily Green

👻 Spooky! Bat Head - Devil Flower here...

Bat Head Lily, Bat Flower, Devil Flower - or Tacca Lily - is one of the most exotic and bizarre flowers along with Amorphophallus or Clitoria.
Curious, bat-like inflorescence both in shape and color, with wide spreading, wing-like bracts of rich maroon-black, accompanied by long trailing filaments or "whiskers".
Perfect container plant for a greenhouse. Needs filtered light, prefers high humidity.
Comes in different species and colors: Black, White, Green: