🍊 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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👻 Spooky! Bat Head - Devil Flower here...

• Bat Head Lily, Bat Flower, Devil Flower - or Tacca Lily - is one of the most exotic and bizarre flowers along with Amorphophallus or Clitoria.
• Curious, bat-like inflorescence both in shape and color, with wide spreading, wing-like bracts of rich maroon-black, accompanied by long trailing filaments or "whiskers".
• Perfect container plant for a greenhouse. Needs filtered light, prefers high humidity.
• Comes in different species and colors: Black, White, Green:

Tacca nivea - White Tacca
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca

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