Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 16 May 2024

Can Frangipani be a vine? How to bring fragrance into your garden

Chonemorpha fragrans, Frangipani vine

💮 Can Frangipani be a vine? How to bring fragrance into your garden.

Chonemorpha fragrans, or Frangipani vine, is a large woody tropical liana with clusters of large, perfume-fragrant flowers and lush green foliage. It is close related to perfumed Plumeria - Frangipani.

🌸 Chonemorpha's intoxicating scent fills the air, creating a sensory delight for all nearby.
🌸 Leaves reaching up to 12 (!) inches add to its allure.
🌸 Being a large woody vine, Frangipani vine requires sturdy support, making it a majestic addition to any garden or indoor space.
🌸 Takes both sun or shade. Full sun is essential for profuse blooming.

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Date: 15 May 2024

How can Banana be a flower? Meet the Banana Magnolia, a Fragrant Marvel

Magnolia figo - Banana Magnolia

🍌 How can Banana be a flower? Meet the Banana Magnolia, a Fragrant Marvel.

Magnolia figo, or Banana Magnolia, boasts creamy yellow, banana-shaped flowers with a sweet, fruity aroma with a hint of banana.
Glossy, deep green foliage enhances its visual charm.
Compact and evergreen, reaching only 7-10 feet, this small tree or shrub adds sophistication to any landscape.
Cold tolerant and heat tolerant. Takes sun and shade.
Great choice for both gardens and containers.

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Date: 12 May 2024

How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba?

Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator

🍇 How Blue Jaboticaba is different from regular Jaboticaba?

In fact, they are very much alike! Just different species of Myrciaria that has somewhat smaller growth habit, which makes it an excellent container fruit tree! It also is much more productive.

🔵 Blue Jaboticaba tree, Myrciaria vexator is a beautiful slow growing tree or shrub. It bears dark purple, almost bluish fruits, with thin, sweet flesh that taste somewhat like sweet grapes.
🔵 Fruits are borne in late Spring or early Fall and usually eaten fresh or used in drinks.
🔵 The plant is little known in cultivation, yet the fruits are of equal or superior quality to regular Jaboticaba that we mentioned earlier. A single bush may produce several thousand fruits!
🔵 Blue Jaboticaba can tolerate light frost when established.

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Date: 11 May 2024

What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?

Coffee tree in a cup

Coffee tree flowers

Coffee tree in a pot

Coffee tree fruit

☕️ What is the most popular and the easiest tropical fruit tree grown as a house plant?

No doubt about it - it's a Coffee tree!

🔸 Coffee is the most popular fruit tree suitable for indoors.
🔸 Coffee is shade loving plant, easy to grow, providing regular water.
🔸 Coffee grows into a beautiful dark green shrub or small tree.
🔸 The white, fragrant, star-shaped flowers are clustered and resemble gardenias to which they are related.
🔸 The whole fruit is edible, it is a small fleshy berry changing in color from green to yellow to red.
🔸 The seeds are the actual "coffee beans", they can easily be dried, roasted and ground at home.

🎁 Coffee is a perfect gift plant and a great indoor container fruit tree.

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🛒 Get your own Coffee Tree

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Date: 10 May 2024

What is Jaboticaba? I like the sound of this word!

🍇 What is Jaboticaba? I like the sound of this word! 😁

Jaboticaba (Myrciaria cauliflora) is the most popular native fruit of Brazil that famous Brazilian Vine La Vino Tinto is made of!🍷

🟣 Grape-like purple fruit with a thick skin and delicious melting pulp somewhat resembling Northern Black Currant in flavor.
🟣 Trees grow very slowly and due to small leaves and dwarfish growth habit are often used as bonsai. Some old bonsai specimens can fruit.
🟣 Larger specimens are very valuable because it takes Jaboticaba up to 7 years from seed to start fruiting.
🟣 Similar to Mamey, Jaboticaba has cauliflorous fruit - that grow on main stems or woody trunks.
🟣 Jaboticaba is relatively cold hardy, mature trees are taking down to 23 F for short periods without serious damage.

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