Is it a plant or an animal? It's a Tapeworm Ribbonbush!

• Homalocladium platycladum - Centipede Fern, Tapeworm Ribbonbush is Bizarreness!
• The Ribbon Bush is a terrific, leaf-less plant from the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific with long, flattened stems resembling tapeworms - hence its nickname "Tapeworm Plant".
• It's hard to capture the unusual beauty of this plant in pictures.
• This is an awesome, offbeat plant that will get people asking: "What the heck is that??".
• This plant needs very little care, makes a great houseplant, and is very hard to find.

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🍋 Tired of an ugly hedge? Replace it with Aglaia - Chinese Rice Flower, and enjoy Lemony Fragrance year around!

• 🟡 Aglaia odorata is also known as Chinese Perfume Plant, Chinese Rice Flower, or Mock Lemon.
• 🟡 The plant has an outstanding fragrance from tiny, rice-sized yellow flowers.
• 🟡 Aglaia grows into a dense bush without pruning. It is relatively slow-growing; so large plants are rare and hard to find.
• 🟡 Easy to grow bush, it is perfect for a cold tolerant tropical hedge.
• 🟡 Aglaia has many medicinal uses; contains odorine and odorinol, which have cancer chemopreventive activity.

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✋ What is the biggest Gardenia flower? Tahitian Gardenia is as big as your hand!

• 💮 Gardenia taitensis "Heaven Scent" has a double flower up to 6"in diameter!
• 💮 This hybrid is very rare and hard to find.
• 💮 The intoxicating sweet fragrant blossoms are creamy white works of art.
• 💮 Huge double flowers up to 5-6" in diameter and large glossy oval leaves.
• 💮 Perfect container plant

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👑 Fun Fact: King Anthurium

🔖 Crowning its title, Anthurium veitchii - King Anthurium - boasts leaves up to 3 feet long! Majestic houseplant! Very hard to find, rare plant.

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🔍 How to choose the right flowering trees for your landscape

• 🌷 There are so many flowering and blooming trees to choose from, where should you start? Well there are plenty of questions to ask and several answers for each.
• 🌷 Are you looking for trees that bloom in winter or are you looking for summer flowering trees? Maybe you are looking for the fastest growing shade tree. The choices are endless. Depending on your answer, there may be several trees that meet your needs.
• 🌷 One good place for beginners and even seasoned growers is to use the search features in our Top Tropicals Plant Encyclopedia. Here you can search by name, size, growth habit, light requirements, watering needs, color of bloom and cold hardiness.
• 🌷 You will be able to search for trees that attract butterflies and even those that are salt tolerant if you live near the ocean.
• 🌷 If you choose the small tree category, you will find small flowering trees and even dwarf flowering trees or bonsai starters.

🎥 Phymosia umbellata - Cranberry Malva Aparasolada

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