🕺 Meet Onika's cats

🐈📸 Meet Onika's cats from TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden:
Tigerlilly. She is the matriarch of her little clan and expert in grass tasting tests.

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🍋 Lemon Candy Tree

🟡 Garcinia edulis - Lemon Drop Mangosteen, Madrono. Tiny yellow-orange globes, golf-ball size, with clear, juicy pulp, and when you taste it, you understand the name instantly. Sweet and tart at the same time, like someone turned a lemon drop candy into a tropical fruit. Today Chiane and Ashley are going to taste the fruit and share with your their experience!

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🍋 Little tree that makes lemon candy

• 🟡 Garcinia edulis - Lemon Drop Mangosteen, Madrono - is one of those plants that doesn’t shout for attention, but when you stop and really look at it, you realize how special it is. And today Chiane and Ashley are going to taste the fruit and share their experience!
• 🟡This tree stays compact and neat, with glossy evergreen leaves that always look freshly polished. Perfect size for a patio pot or a small garden corner. Ours here is slow and steady, but it always looks like it got groomed this morning.
• 🟡And the fruit… that’s where the fun begins. Tiny yellow-orange globes, golf-ball size, glowing against the green leaves. Inside is that clear, juicy pulp, and when you taste it, you understand the name instantly. Sweet and tart at the same time, like someone turned a lemon drop candy into a tropical fruit.
• 🟡People snack on them right off the tree, but they’re also great in juices and little dessert experiments. It’s one of those fruits that makes you feel like you grew something exotic without needing a jungle-sized space or complicated care. Give it sun, give it water, keep it in a nice pot, and it’s perfectly happy.
• 🟡A cute, flavorful, collector-worthy tree that fits right into small spaces.

🛒 Plant Lemon Candy Tree - Lemon Drop Mangosteen

📚 Learn more:
Does it really taste like Lemon drops?

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🍴 Black pepper leaf stir-fry: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

• 🔴Saute chopped Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) leaves with garlic, chili, and soy sauce.
• 🔴Bold, peppery, and perfect with rice.

Black pepper leaf stir-fry: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Ingredients

• 2 cups fresh Black Pepper (Piper nigrum) leaves, sliced
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped
• 3 to 5 small red chilies
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp oil
• Salt to taste

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a skillet.
2. Add garlic and chilies and saute until fragrant.
3. Add sliced Black Pepper leaves and stir-fry on medium heat.
4. Pour in soy sauce and cook until leaves soften.
5. Serve hot with rice.

🛒 Plant your own Black Pepper vine for all your kitchen needs

📚 Learn more:

• ▫️Piper nigrum in Plant Encyclopedia
• ▫️Cooking with Black Pepper leaves
• ▫️What is Pepper madefFrom? Black, white, green, and red
• ▫️ How to grow your own Pepper plants. Five most valuable 'Pipers'

📱 Watch this before cooking with black pepper

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Cat or Carrot?

"My cat doesn’t solve problems - he just makes me forget them"

🐈📸 Cat Riki is the Therapist with Whiskers at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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