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Lychee sorbet: quick-n-fun exotic recipes. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Lychee sorbet: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Lychee - Litchi chinensis

Lychee - Litchi chinensis

Lychee sorbet

Lychee sorbet

🍴 Lychee sorbet: quick-n-fun exotic recipes
  • 🔴Blend Lychee pulp with lime juice, freeze until firm.
  • 🔴A refreshing tropical ice treat.

Lychee Sorbet Recipe

Ingredients

  • 3 cups fresh lychee flesh, peeled and seeded (or canned lychees, drained)
  • 1/3 cup sugar or honey
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
  • 1/4 cup cold water, as needed for blending
  • Fresh mint leaves for garnish (optional)

Instructions

  1. Prepare the lychees by peeling them, removing the seeds, and collecting the white flesh. If using canned lychees, drain them well.
  2. Place the lychee flesh, sugar or honey, lime juice, and 2 tablespoons of the cold water into a blender.
  3. Blend until completely smooth. If the mixture is too thick to move easily, add a little more water, 1 tablespoon at a time.
  4. Pour the mixture into a shallow freezer safe container. Cover tightly.
  5. Freeze for 2 to 3 hours, stirring with a fork every 30 to 45 minutes, until the sorbet is firm but scoopable.
  6. Scoop into bowls and garnish with fresh mint leaves and extra lychee fruit if desired. Serve immediately.

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Horny plant hanging in the air. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Horny plant hanging in the air

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

Staghorn fern (Platycerium)

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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How this breath-taking flowering tree stays so compact. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How this breath-taking flowering tree stays so compact

🌸 How this breath-taking flowering tree stays so compact

  • 🌸 Ceiba hybrid - Dwarf Pink Princess - is one of the #Nature_Wonders that takes your breath away!

  • 🌸 A compact marvel of nature that redefines beauty in small spaces, this exquisite hybrid of the Pink Silk Floss Tree (Ceiba speciosa) grows to a manageable height of just 8-12 feet, making it perfect for small yards or container gardening.


    • In bloom, the tree is a spectacle: nearly leafless, with its crown exploding into tens of thousands of pink flowers, creating a vibrant, colorful mass.

  • 🌸 Its spreading crown and profusion of blossoms make it a showstopper, proving that you don’t need a giant tree to make a big impact.


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Coral-blooming bonsai with a bottle-shaped trunk - perfect container plant. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

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.


🛒 Get your Gout plant - the plant with a personality

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

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Tulips growing on a tree! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Tulips growing on a tree!

🌷Tulips growing on a tree!

🌷 Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree - is in bloom at Top Tropicals Garden several times a year. We have both red and yellow varieties. Yellow is very rare! See more photos of Yellow Tulip Tree on our website and in the next post.

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Why everyone loves these tulips growing on a tree

🛒 Grow your tulips on a tree

#Nature_Wonders #Trees

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Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?

Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree? Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?
🌷Have you seen a rare Golden Tulip Tree?

📸 More photos of Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree - for the previous post.

🛒 Grow your tulips on a tree

#Nature_Wonders #Trees

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Did you know that cannonballs grow on a tree? The Marvelous Cannonball Tree. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Did you know that cannonballs grow on a tree? The Marvelous Cannonball Tree

Did you know that cannonballs grow on a tree? The Marvelous Cannonball Tree.

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Natures weirdest flower? This ones in the running. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Natures weirdest flower? This ones in the running

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

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#Nature_Wonders #Container_Garden
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Charming black flowers of. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Charming black flowers of

🌚 Charming black flowers of Sesbania aegyptiaca Bicolor - Egyptian Pea, Black Bud

#Trees #Nature_Wonders

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Who thinks this is an Eggplant? Do you? What is it? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Who thinks this is an Eggplant? Do you? What is it?

🍆 Who thinks this is an Eggplant? Do you? What is it?

Correct answer: Avocado Red Russel.

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📸 😺 👇 Share your cats in comments!

#Food_Forest #PeopleCats #Nature_Wonders

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