Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 11 Sep 2024

What plant you need if your kid is afraid of chickens

Neea psychotrioides - Pigeon Plum, Hoja de Salat, Saltwood

🐓 What plant you need if your kid is afraid of chickens

  • 🐣 Neea psychotrioides - Pigeon Plum, Hoja de Salat, Saltwood - from Central America is rare in cultivation. This small tree or bush should get more attention from tropical plant collectors.
  • 🐣 Neea is very nice, easy growing and make those "jelly beans" like berries. The flowers are almost unnoticeable. The berries are very showy and come right after. It fruits for several months non stop.
  • 🐣 Mature fruit is edible. In its native countries, this plant is widely used medicinally.
  • 🐣 From the book "Messages from the Gods. A Guide to the useful plants of Belize": "It is used to treat babies who can not sleep, often accompanied with crying, especially when they have been frightened by chickens..." So the plant is very useful especially for those who are afraid of chickens!


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Date: 21 Aug 2024

What hibiscus has the most health benefits

Hibiscus sabdariffa (Flor de Jamaica, Karkade Sorrel, Roselle)

🌺 What hibiscus has the most health benefits



Hibiscus sabdariffa (Flor de Jamaica, Karkade Sorrel, Roselle) flowers have deep red calyces that are used worldwide to make a refreshing teas "Agua de Flor de Jamaica" and Karkade Tea, known for its tart flavor and health benefits. This is one of the most fast growing plants, bringing from seed to big bush a big flower crop within just one season.

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Date: 20 Aug 2024

Why the shamans call Ayahuasca vine of the soul

Banisteriopsis caapi - Ayahuasca

Banisteriopsis caapi - Ayahuasca

Banisteriopsis caapi - Ayahuasca

Banisteriopsis caapi - Ayahuasca

‍♀️ Why the shamans call Ayahuasca "vine of the soul"



Banisteriopsis caapi, known as Ayahuasca, is the key ingredient in the traditional Amazonian brew revered as the "vine of the soul." Used in sacred rituals for its hallucinogenic and healing properties, it cleanses the body and spirit while serving as a profound teacher in indigenous ceremonies.

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Date: 12 Aug 2024

How to grow drumsticks on a tree

Moringa oleifera - Horseradish tree

🍗 How to grow drumsticks on a tree



Our Moringa Tree is full of drumsticks!
Learn more about this useful plant - Moringa oleifera - Horseradish tree - from our previous posts:

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Date: 3 Aug 2024

How to always have your own Root Beer

How to always have your own Root Beer


  • Piper auritum - Root Beer Plant, Acuyo, False Kava-Kava - is a close relative of Piper methysticum (Kava-Kava), and Piper nigrum (Black Pepper). It is very often confused with Kava-Kava, and probably has some similar medicinal effects.

  • This herb originated from Tropical America and grows also in the South Pacific.

  • Large-leaved perennial, known for its leaves, which are used for their spicy aromatic scent and flavor, some liken to root beer, others to anise-clove. It can be used for making a root beer-flavoted drink.

  • This species is easily identified by its huge leaves which can grow over a foot long in older specimens.

  • The leaves are chopped and used for flavoring, as well as used whole, as wrappings for meats, tamales, etc.


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