Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 30 Nov 2025

Sugar apple spoon mash: quick-n-fun exotic recipes

Sugar apple spoon mash recipe

Sugar apple spoon mash recipe

Annona squamosa - Sugar Apple, fruit

Annona squamosa - Sugar Apple, fruit

🍴 Sugar apple spoon mash: quick-n-fun exotic recipes



🟢Scoop out ripe Sugar Apple flesh and mash lightly with a fork, removing seeds as you go.
🟢Stir in a splash of chilled coconut milk.
🟢Serve it half-frozen like a tropical slush, eaten straight from the bowl.

Sugar Apple Spoon Mash

Ingredients

  • 1 ripe Sugar Apple (Annona squamosa)
  • 2 to 3 tbsp chilled coconut milk

Instructions

  1. Scoop out the ripe Sugar Apple flesh and remove all seeds.
  2. Mash the pulp lightly with a fork.
  3. Stir in the chilled coconut milk.
  4. Serve immediately or half-freeze for a tropical slush.

🛒 Grow Sugar Apples - in containers or in the ground

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Sugar Apple Plant Facts

Botanical name: Annona squamosa
Also known as: Sugar Apple, Custard Apple, Sweetsop-Anon, Sweetsop, Atis, Sitafal, Seetha Payam, Araticum, Sharifa
USDA Zone: 9 - 11
Highligths Small tree 10-20 ftSemi-shadeFull sunWatering: Moderate. Water when top soil feels dryEdible plantDeciduous plantFragrant plant
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Why everyone wants the Sugar Apple?
Annona squamosa - Sugar Apple - in Plant Encyclopedia
Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: Annona - Sugar Apple, Custard Apple
What does Sugar Apple look like and how does it taste?
This is why Atemoya is better than any other Annonas
What's inside this bumpy Annona fruit? Delicious Health benefits

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Date: 2 Dec 2025

Little tree that makes lemon candy

Garcinia edulis - Lemon Drop Mangosteen, Madrono

🍋 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

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Does it really taste like Lemon drops?

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Date: 18 Dec 2025

How to have fruit year around from Everbearing Mulberry

🍇 How to have fruit year around from Everbearing Mulberry



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💗 Dwarf Everbearing and Dwarf Issai - Compact, container-friendly varieties perfect for small spaces. These dwarf trees (6-10 ft tall) are disease and drought resistant, with multiple crops year-round, even from the first year! Ideal for patios and small yards..

🛒 Plant hardy Mulberry year around

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Paper Mulberry Plant Facts

Botanical name: Broussonetia papyrifera, Morus papyrifera
Also known as: Paper Mulberry
USDA Zone: 6 - 9
Highligths Large shrub 5-10 ft tallSemi-shadeWatering: Moderate. Water when top soil feels dryRed, crimson, vinous flowersOrnamental foliageSubtropical plant. Mature plant cold hardy at least to 30s F for a short time
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· Mulberry trees in Plant Encyclopedia
· What are the best Mulberry varieties
· Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #7. Mulberry
· How Mulberry fruit helps with diabetes

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Date: 11 Jan 2026

Did you know why its an Akee time, too?

Cat Bob with his Ackee fruit (Blighia sapida)

Cat Bob with his Ackee fruit (Blighia sapida)

🍊 Did you know why it's an Akee time, too?



Akee (Ackee) starts fruiting late Summer through Fall, but we still have some fruit on the trees through the Winter!

🐈📸 Cat Bob with his Ackee fruit at TopTropicals PeopleCats.Garden

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Date: 29 Nov 2016

December Fest on Dec 10, mark your calendars!

Topic: Edible landscape. 10:00am - 2:00pm. Agenda:

Class @ 11:00am by Robert Riefer. How to keep pests off of maturing fruit.
Class @12:00pm Super foods by Zoe Merring. Benefits of Soursop, barbados cherry, goji, moringa. Benefits and recipes.

Discounts on all edibles
Prize giveaways at 12:00pm and 2:00pm (must be present to win)

20% off After-Cyber-Monday sale! Now that everybody is done with shopping for monitors and speakers, it is time to get some happy stuff! 20% off on all fruit trees, 1 day only! Enjoy your shopping and get the plants you always wanted at a low price!