💔 When is the season for the Bleeding Hearts

❣️ Bleeding Heart Vine (Clerodendrum thomsoniae) is named for its red and white flowers that look like dangling hearts.

❣️ Native to tropical West Africa, this climber thrives in bright light and can be grown as a houseplant or trained on a trellis.

❣️ It shows off its most spectacular blooms in winter, but with enough light, it'll happily flower year-round.

📚 More about Clerodendrums in previous posts:

💋What is the most spectacular Clerodendrum
💋How to grow Clerodendrums
💋Fireworks of Winter
💋Fragrant Cashmere Bouquet
💋Fountain Clerodendrum
💋What is better - Blue or Pink
💋Why is it called Blue Butterfly
💋Clerodendrum paniculatum
💋Seaside Clerodendrum
💋Pink Bleeding Heart
💋Why is it called Musical Notes
💋Bleeding Heart Vine
💋Cashmere Bouquet

🛒Get your own Bleeding Heart

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What is the miracle behind the Miracle fruit?

🍭 Miracle Fruit, synsepalum dulcificum is a small, red berry that can temporarily make sour foods taste sweet. The berry contains a protein called miraculin, which binds to taste buds and alters the way sour foods are perceived. Sour turns into sweet!

🍭 Native to West Africa, this fruit has been used for centuries as a natural sweetener and is often enjoyed at "flavor-tripping" parties.

🍭 It's also used by chemotherapy patients to help improve their sense of taste, as it can make bitter or metallic-tasting foods more palatable.

📚 Learn more from earlier posts:

How to make sour taste sweet and what causes the miracle?
Everyday Miracle - Grow the Dream!

🛒 Plant your own Miracle Fruit

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😎 What is the secret of Mamey's popularity

🍊 Pouteria sapota, or Mamey Sapote - is a large tropical fruit with a thick, rough skin and sweet, creamy orange flesh with sweet and pumpkin-like flavor.

🍊 It's eaten fresh, blended into smoothies, or used in desserts like ice cream and shakes.

🍊 National fruit of Cuba, native to the Caribbean and Central America, Mamey has been cultivated for centuries and is valued for its rich flavor and high nutritional content.

Flowers emerge in clusters in the axils of fallen leaves along the branches, followed by the showy fruit. This is called cauliflory - when plants flower and fruit from their main stems or woody trunks. Other examples of cauliflory are Cucumber tree and Jaboticaba.

📚 More from previous post:
Why exotic Mamey is so much wanted

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☕️ Did you know which two trees are behind the creation of Eggnog?

☕️ Eggnog is made from milk, cream, sugar, beaten eggs, and two spices: Nutmeg and Cinnamon. Both nutmeg and cinnamon come from spice trees:

Nutmeg is made from the seed of the Nutmeg tree (Myristica fragrans).

🔥Cinnamon comes from the bark of the Cinnamon tree (Cinnamomum verum or Cinnamomum cassia).

These spices add the classic, warming flavors that make eggnog so popular during the holiday season.

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😂 What is the most popular Christmas plant?

Every one knows Christmas Orchid Cactus - Schlumbergera. But this rare variety is exceptional - it is called New Deal.
This remarkable Christmas cactus hybrid has spectacular, large-flowers and blooms twice a season.

New Deal is completely lost to the trade today, but we have it at Top Tropicals for the first time after it was originally offered for purchase at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden over 90 years ago while having a special rare plant sale on the day of the famous presidential election on November 8, 1932 when F.D.R. was historically voted in as the next American president.

The plants we are offering are all 3rd generation vegetative propagation from an original specimen (still alive btw). Its name New Deal - is identical to President Franklin D. Roosevel main campaign slogan

Not only is New Deal an exceptionally obscure, heirloom cultivar especially easy to grow under average house plant conditions,

It reliably produces almost an overabundance of brilliant violet-pink and white flowers which are easily an inch larger than any other variety.

💕 Do you have Christmas cactus at home? What colors? Share your pictures!

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"New Deal" - a remarkable Christmas cactus

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