💐 The shrub that smells like a royal bouquet and grows like a weed?
💐Clerodendrum bungei - Glory Bower, Cashmere bouquet, fills the air with sweet perfume and bursts of pink blooms that butterflies love. Its dark leaves add contrast, and it grows fast - maybe too fast - so plant it in a pot or tucked-away spot unless you want a fragrant takeover!
🐾 Meet Macaron, our desert drifter from Nevada who now claims a corner of TopTropicals Arizona office.
🐾 Unlike your average snuggly cat, Macaron refuses the luxury of a bed - he prefers the cold hard floor or a tangle of electronic wires (maybe he's solar-powered?)
🐾 Macaron doesn’t hang out with the other cats, doesn’t play, doesn’t cuddle. He’s a true lone ranger. Some say he's antisocial... we say he's just mysterious!
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Bat Flower, Devil Flower
What is the rarest Tacca?
💚 Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Bat Flower, Devil Flower - is the rarest Tacca of them all!
💚 Move over Black and White - this is the green bat flower, and it's in a class of its own!
💚 Tacca leontopetaloides is a collector's dream and is rare in cultivation. With eerie greenish-purple flower clusters perched on tall stalks and long, trailing whisker-like bracts, this plant looks like something out of a botanical fairytale.
💚 Unlike its fussy cousins, the Green Bat Flower is surprisingly easy to grow. It thrives in shady or semi-shaded spots, comes back reliably each spring, and doesn’t mind a bit of neglect. Its glossy, deeply divided leaves die back in fall and return with vigor as the weather warms up. A well-draining pot, occasional feeding, and moderate watering are all it asks for.
💚 Native to Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, it's more than just a pretty face - this plant has traditional medicinal uses too. But let's be honest: most collectors grow it for the jaw-dropping display.
💚 Very few collectors have this variety - don't miss your chance to be one of them!