Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 22 Aug 2024

What flower looks plastic

Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, flower

Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, flower

Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, fruit with seeds

Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, fruit with seeds

Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, fruit

Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple, fruit

What flower looks plastic... or ceramic?



🔥 #Fun_Facts: Clusia lanceolata - Porcelain Flower or Cerra Cipapau Apple is a delightful small tree native to America with flowers looking just like they are made of porcelain! Gorgeous pink flowers with mauve throats look almost artificial. The tree happily blooms in shade, and the fruit resembles a small apple and is enjoyed by birds and wildlife. Very undemanding plant.

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Date: 21 Aug 2024

Fun Fact: Long Leaf Anthurium

Anthurium vittariifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium

Anthurium vittariifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium

Anthurium vittariifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium

Anthurium vittariifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium

Anthurium vittariifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium

Anthurium vittariifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium

🔍 Fun Fact: Long Leaf Anthurium



💎 Anthurium vittariifolium - Long Leaf Anthurium. This rare rainforest gem flaunts leaves that can stretch up to 6 feet long, creating a stunning cascading effect when grown in hanging baskets. Plus, it surprises with bright pink, showy fruits that add a vibrant splash of color to its dramatic foliage!

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Date: 13 Aug 2024

What happens when you cross Cream and Lavender?

runfelsia isola - Lavender Lady of the Night

💜 What happens when you cross Cream and Lavender?

The flowers of this rare hybrid that we mentioned earlier, Brunfelsia isola, or Lavender Lady of the Night, are a "marble" twist of cream and purple, changing hue unpredictably. They are deliciously fragrant at night.

Brunfelsia isola is an unusual cross between B. americana and B. grandiflora. What a genetical surprise!

Brunfelsia isola has the benefit of fragrant cream-colored brunfelsia and light purple color from the other parent. 👫

💎 A gem for a rare plant collection of #Nature_Wonders!

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Date: 31 Jul 2024

Is it a plant or an animal? Its a Centipede Fern!

Homalocladium platycladum - Centipede Fern

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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Date: 30 Jul 2024

How many buttons in this ballistic mattress???

Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant

🐾 How many buttons in this ballistic mattress???



🔘 Dorstenia bahiensis - Mattress Button Plant: this plant is a real Nature's Wonder! The fun part is the "mattress" where the seed "buttons" grow.

🚀 The plant has strange looking receptacles. At maturity, seeds shoot ballistically from the mature flower/fruit heads, and they germinate readily whenever the land on soil or other moist substrate.

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