Aglaia odorata - Chinese Perfume Plant, Chinese Rice Flower
💐 What flower smells like lemons?
🍋 Aglaia odorata, also known as Chinese Perfume Plant or Chinese Rice Flower, is in full bloom at TopTropicals, filling the air with its pleasant lemony fragrance virtually year-round!
🍋 This tough, low-maintenance plant adds a touch of enchanted magic and delightful scent to your garden.
🍋 Beyond its beauty, Aglaia boasts medicinal properties thanks to compounds like odorine and odorinol.
🍋 It grows into a dense bush without the need for pruning, making it the perfect, cold-tolerant tropical hedge.
💎 What is better than Plumeria? Only climbing Plumeria!
💮 It's in bloom again at Top Tropicals Garden! Over and over, from Spring through Winter! Almost year around non stop. What a vigorous vine, and the perfume flowers never stop coming.
💮 Imagine Plumeria's wild cousin climbing your fence: Chonemorpha fragrans, the Frangipani vine, is a tropical liana with jumbo 12-inch leaves and creamy white flowers that fill the air with that unmistakable Plumeria scent.
💮 This beauty doesn’t grow like a tree - it climbs! Perfect for fences, trellises, or pergolas, it brings vertical drama and sweet, Plumeria-like fragrance to sunny or lightly shaded spots.
💮 Give it some support and a little fertilizer, and your garden will bloom into a lush, fragrant escape that smells like a Hawaii vacation!
Q: Would you please help me select the right jasmine? I want to
find a jasmine that smells like lily of the valley or honeysuckle or roses,
not the one that smells like gardenia. I'm in Missouri, zone 6, so I want a
jasmine for my deck for the summer, so I want it to bloom this season.
A: There are 3 major types of tropical flower fragrances - Sweet,
Fresh, and Fruity (including Lemony). Below are the most interesting
fragrant tropical flowers, excluding Gardenias (which are sweet type). These are all
same-year bloomers, so you can enjoy the fragrance this year assuming proper
care and bloom booster feeding.
* - The fastest growers that can be treated as annuals. Others can be
grown in a pot and brought inside for winter, and be enjoyed every year.
How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties
Jasminum Sambac varieties
⏳ How to tell the difference between Jasmine Sambac Varieties
💮 Jasminum Sambac is hands down the most fragrant jasmine in existence - and the most popular among tropical gardeners and plant collectors.
💮 Native to India, it's the source of jasmine perfume oil and the signature ingredient in jasmine tea.
💮 This plant comes in several varieties, each with unique flower size, shape, and growth habit - ranging from compact shrubs to vigorous bushes and climbing vines. It takes both sun and shade and makes a perfect container plant and indoor plant favorite.
💮 All varieties of Sambac are equally fragrant. To get more flowers, just use Sunshine Pikake plant booster and enjoy the perfume all day long!
💮 At Top Tropicals, we grow every known variety of Jasminum sambac in cultivation:
Arabian Nights - compact slow growing shrub with small delicate flowers
Belle of India - compact vine with long elegant petals, shade lover
💮 What is your favorite variety of Jasmine Sambac?
💮 Jasminum Sambac is hands-down the queen of fragrant flowers. The scent is heavenly - so much so that it's the key to jasmine perfume and the secret behind authentic jasmine tea.
💮 Jasmine sambac comes in all shapes and sizes - from neat little shrubs to big, vigorous bushes and even climbing vines. Every variety shows off a different flower form. It’s happy in sun or shade, perfect for pots, and loved as an indoor plant.
💮 At TopTropicals we love them all, but these three are our favorites:
- Belle of India - with elegant long petals
- Arabian Nights - vigorous yet compact, always covered in blooms
- Little Duke - same big carnation-like flowers as Grand Duke, but in a smaller, tidy package
👉 At Top Tropicals, we grow every known variety of Jasminum sambac in cultivation:
❓ Which one would you choose for your garden?
✔️ Arabian Nights - compact slow growing shrub with small delicate flowers ✔️ Belle of India - compact vine with long elegant petals, shade lover ✔️ Grand Duke of Tuscany - the most popular, vigorous bush with carnation-like flowers ✔️ Grand Duke Supreme - bigger, more vigorous version of Grand Duke with larger flowers ✔️ Gundu Malli - new hybrid between Arabian Nights and Grand Duke ✔️ Little Duke - more compact version of the Grand Duke ✔️ Maid of Orleans - vigorous full sun climber, great for hedges and fences ✔️ Mali Chat - very delicate, rare variety, with miniature 3-tier flowers, not easy to establish, shade lover ✔️ Mysore Mulli - vigorous vining shrub for sunny or semi-shade locations
👉 To get more flowers, just use Sunshine Pikake plant booster and enjoy the perfume all day long!
