🍍 The most luscious Hospitality Fruit

💥 Pineapple plant (Ananas comosus) produces a delicious fruit treat and is a fascinating plant to grow.

• 🔻 King of fruits. Pineapple is often referred to as the "king of fruits" (along with Durian and Mango). It is cherished for its sweet and tangy taste, refreshing qualities, culinary uses, and health benefits, including high vitamin C content and digestive enzymes.
• 🔻 Bromelain for healthy guts: pineapples contain an enzyme called bromelain that can break down proteins and is often used as a meat tenderizer. It's great for digestion; eat 1 slice of pineapple after every meal to maintain healthy digestive system.
• 🔻 Single fruit per plant: each pineapple plant produces just one pineapple per year.
• 🔻 Growth time: It takes about 18-24 months for a pineapple to mature and be ready for harvest.
• 🔻 Symbol of Hospitality: in many cultures, pineapples are a symbol of hospitality and welcome.
• 🔻 Those are berries! A pineapple is formed from many individual single fruit (technically, berries), which fuse together around the core.
• 🔻 Cultivation. Pineapples are easy to grow. They need only a little water to thrive. Take full sun, shade, semi-shade. For faster production, fertilize with SUNSHINE boosters Ananas - Pineapple and Bromeliad Booster. Perfect container plant, can be grown indoors as a houseplant.
• 🔻 Propagation: pineapples can be grown from the crown of the fruit. If you like the variety of the fruit you just ate, just cut the top off and plant it in potting soil, it will root within a few weeks. Make sure to not overwater it. Many superior varieties are available in selection.

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🍊 Top 3 most wanted Papaya varieties

Papaya fruit is one of the superfoods as we mentioned earlier. Below are the top 3 most interesting varieties: a full size tree, a semi-dwarf and a dwarf.

1. Maradol. Vigorous full size plant with high yield. Commercially grown throughout Central Mexico, these papayas are 3 to 5 pounds in weight and the shape of an elongated melon. Soft and juicy, they have salmon pink or red flesh that is very sweet with a slightly perfumed, fruity flavor. Cut them in half lengthwise. Delicious and irresistible with a sprinkle of fresh lemon or lime juice.
2. Solo Sunset, Semi-Dwarf from Hawaii. Commercially grown primarily on Kauai, it has dark pink to reddish-orange flesh. The fruit is medium to small size, shape is somewhat round. This is the sweetest Papya variety we ever tasted!
3. Solo Waimanalo, Dwarf - oval, large size yellow fruit with dark yellow flesh. Low bearing tree makes harvesting easy. Grows wonderfully in Central Florida in both a container or in the ground. Will go from seed to fruit in just one year. Waimanalo has yellow-orange flesh.

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🍞 Breaking news: flower smells of freshly baked bread! It smells so good, you want to eat it!

• 🍔 Vallaris glabra - Bread Flower - is one of the most impressive tropical vines that is very popular in Thailand and other South-East Asia countries.
• 🍔 Moderate growth woody climber with clusters of freshly-baked-bread fragrant white flowers.
• 🍔 Easy to care and tolerates wide range of conditions. It can be trained as a compact bush and is good for container culture.
• 🍔 Attracts butterflies and hummingbirds.
• 🍔 Relatively cold hardy, mild frost doesn't do any damage to it, even large tropical leaves stay glossy, green and healthy.
• 🍔 It is very vigorous grower that can create nice privacy hedge or cover a large fence.

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⬆️ The number one seller of tropical flowering shrubs: Tropical Rose Hydrangea.

• 🌸 Dombeya seminole - Tropical Rose Hydrangea is one of the showiest landscape plants and a real showstopper
• 🌸 Known as the tropical hydrangea due to similar flowers. Flowers are pink to rose in color.
• 🌸 Blooms from fall to spring. Blooms all winter, providing much-desired color
• 🌸 Grows up to 7 feet tall and about the same in width. Can be pruned to about 5 feet tall. Does well in a container.
• 🌸 Thrives in full sun to partial shade, tolerates poor soil. Fuller shrub and more flowers with more sun.
Fairly drought-tolerant once established.
• 🌸 Serves as a nectar plant for many butterflies

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❤️ What is the most lovable flowering shrub?

Clerodendrums are one of the most favorite and rewarding flowering shrubs and vines for Southern landscape or indoor culture.

• ❤️ Free flowering, bloom year around
• ❤️ Undemanding and fast growing
• ❤️ Take sun or shade
• ❤️ Many species are fragrant
• ❤️ Attract butterflies and birds
• ❤️ Perfect for container culture, compact and manageable plants
• ❤️ Cold tolerant, quickly recover from cold damage, respond well to pruning.

📚 Clerodendrums mentioned earlier: Seaside Clerodendrum, Red Bleeding Heart, Bleeding Heart Vine, Musical Note, Glory Bower.

🎥 Clerodendrum paniculatum - Pagoda Flower

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