Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 17 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are candles!

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote fruit

Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, Guahalote flower

Why cucumbers grow on a tree? Because they are "candles"! 🕯

🕯 This bizarre tree is a conversation piece and every plant collector should have one!
🕯 Parmentiera edulis - Candle Tree, or Guahalote - is a highly ornamental tree with interesting leaves, pretty cream flowers and...ready?
🕯One foot long fruits resembling a greenish-yellow cucumbers or candles that hang off the tree!
🕯Juicy fruit is edible and has a sweet flavor similar to sugar cane. Eaten raw or cooked; used to make pickles or preserves
🕯The fruit is a remedy for colds; roots used as a diuretic.
🕯Easy to grow and not fussy about conditions. Cold tolerant to light frost.

🎥 10 Plants That Will Make You Happy. Plant #2: Candle Tree.

🛒Get your own Candle Tree

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Date: 16 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What tropical fruit tree is cold hardy and easy to grow? Its Golden Loquat the Symbol of Prosperity, and it tastes like

Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) fruit

Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) trees in pots

Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) tree

Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) compot

Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica) fruit

What tropical fruit tree is cold hardy and easy to grow? It's Golden Loquat – the Symbol of Prosperity, and it tastes like apricots!

🍑 Loquat tree (Eriobotrya japonica) is fast-growing, drought-tolerant, cold-tolerant, compact tropical fruit tree.
🍑 Heavy producer. Fruits are juicy, aromatic, and resemble apricots. Ripen from early Spring to early Summer.
🍑 Ideal for small gardens, beginner fruit tree growers.
🍑 High in sugar, acids, vitamins B and C, minerals, and pectin.
🍑 Eaten fresh, used in fruit salads, jams, jellies, chutneys, pies, tarts, and wine

🍑 Grown in Japan for over 1,000 years. In China, represents gold and wealth, often included in auspicious displays or offerings for prosperity💰

📚 Learn more about Loquats
'>🎥 YouTube video about Loquat
📁 Overlooked fruit: tasty Loquat recipes (PDF)

🛒Start your fruit garden with Loquats

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Date: 15 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own

🐲 What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. 🌵

🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
🔴 Can be grown in container with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!

📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?

🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders #Dragon_Fruit

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Date: 15 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya trees on trellis

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya on trellis

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya red fruit

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya purple fruit

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya Yellow Parlora

Hylocereus and Selenicereus Dragon Fruit or Pitaya flower

🐲 What does a dragon taste like? Does Dragon Fruit come from a monster cactus? Learn why you need to grow your own. 🌵

🔴 You may have tried a Dragon fruit from the store l, but do you know how it grows? On a cactus tree!
🔴 Names: varieties of Hylocereus and Selenicereus - these fruit bearing cactus plants are also called Dragon Fruit or Pitaya.
🔴 Commercially grown fruit sold in a grocery store may be tasteless. You need to grow your own good variety to have tasty, sweet, flavorful fruit!
🔴 Dragon fruit comes in many varieties. Colors of flesh differ: white, pink, dark red and even purple. The outside of the fruit can be red/pink or yellow.
🔴 In commercial groves, Pitayas grow like cactus trees, over a strong support - big "umbrella frames" ☂️
🔴 It is an easy plant, with low water needs, takes both sun and semi-shade.
🔴 Our favorite variety is Yellow Dragon Fruit Palora, (Selenicereus megalanthus). It is the sweetest and has the most flavor of all. We shared some recipes earlier.
🔴 Can be grown in container with a wooden trellis. And the flower is beautiful, too!

📚 Learn more about Dragon Fruit
🍹 Recipe: What to do with a Dragon fruit?

🛒Grow your own Tasty Dragon Fruits

#Food_Forest #Recipes #Nature_Wonders

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Date: 11 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

18 most popular herbs: where to use each herb?

Basil

Catnip

Rosemary

Balm

Cilantro

Sage

Tarragon

Lemon grass

Mint

Thyme

18 most popular herbs: where to use each herb? 🍲

🌿 Arugula - Green salads, pasta sauce
🌿 Balm - Iced drinks, salads, poultry stuffing
🌿 Basil - Tomato salad, any past dish? home-made pesto, garnish
🌿 Catnip - Sauces and stews, for tea
🌿 Chervil - Soups, green salads, as a garnish
🌿 Chives - Cream cheese, potato salad, green salads, sauces
🌿 Cilantro - Stews, rice, salads, salsa
🌿 Dill - Fish dishes, pickles, potato salad
🌿 Lemon grass - Oriental stir-fry, for tea
🌿 Marjoram - Italian dishes, stews, soups
🌿 Mint - Add to potatoes, peas, cucumber, carrots, mint sauce, mint tea
🌿 Oregano - Italian and Greek dishes, green salad
🌿 Parsley - Butters, pasta dishes, as garnish
🌿 Rosemary - BBQ, roast lamb/chicken, fish, fried/baked potatoes
🌿 Sage - Stuffing, add to poultry, mix with cream cheese
🌿 Sorrel - Soup, serve with fish, pastries
🌿 Tarragon - Fish, chicken, sauces
🌿 Thyme - Stocks and stews, add to pasta

📸 Basil, Catnip, Rosemary, Oregano, Cilantro, Sage, Terragon, Lemon grass, Mint, Thyme

🛒 Shop tropical herbs and spices

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Date: 5 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Do you know why this plant is caged?

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - Manihot esculenta cv. Variegata

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - Manihot esculenta

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - Manihot esculenta cv. Variegata

🌐 Do you know why this plant is caged? Because it's so tasty!

🐇🐿 Yes indeed, we protect it from all kinds of visitors: deer, bunnies, squirrels, raccoons...

Because it's our favorite food and don't want to share! 🙄

Yuca Root, Cassava, Tapioca - variegated form Manihot esculenta cv. Variegata makes not only a great meal but a beautiful ornamental, as we mentioned earlier. Besides culinary value, it is simply a stunning little tree!

Plant several plants in your garden and you will never run out of healthy food. Try this vegetable and you will never want French fries!🍟

‼️ Don't be shy to harvest the roots - this plant is easy to regrow from cuttings, so you can have your crops year round.

📚 Learn more about Yuca Root

🍲 Cassava Fries Recipe

🛒 Order Cassava plant online

#Food_Forest #Recipes

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Date: 26 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Tamarind

Tamarind fruit - Tamarinus indica

Tamarind flowers - Tamarinus indica

📖 Fun Fact: Tamarind is used as a souring agent in many cuisines around the world, adding a tangy flavor to dishes. How to use Tamarind in cooking?

🍲 Tamarind Chutney Recipe

Ingredients:

· 1 cup tamarind pulp
· 1 cup water
· 3/4 cup brown sugar or jaggery
· 1 tsp each of ground cumin, ginger, and coriander
· 1/2 tsp red chili powder
· Salt to taste

Instructions:

· Simmer tamarind pulp and water.
· Strain, return to heat, and add sugar.
· Stir in spices and salt.
· Simmer until thickened.
· Cool and store in the refrigerator.

🛒Grow your own Tamarind Tree

#Edible_Forest #Fun_Facts #Recipes

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Date: 25 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why this Akee taste of deliciousness always follows me?

Akee fruit, Ackee

Why this Akee taste of deliciousness always follows me? Definitely the favorite fruit (it's actually a vegetable).

Can't wait for the next crop this year 😼

📖 Fun Fact: Ackee is the national fruit of Jamaica and is a key ingredient in the traditional Jamaican dish, ackee and saltfish. However, it must be properly ripened and cooked due to its toxic properties when unripe.

‼️ Check out our previous post about Akee.

📚 More about Akee

🎥 YouTube Recipe: How to cook perfect Akee?

🛒 Grow your own Akee tree

#Food_Forest #Nature_Wonders #Recipes #Fun_Facts

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Date: 21 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to make exotic fries from beautiful Cassava Tree (Yuca Root, Tapioca)

Cassava Tree (Yuca Root, Tapioca) - Manihot esculenta

🍟 How to make exotic fries from beautiful Cassava Tree (Yuca Root, Tapioca).

▪️ Cassava (Manihot esculenta), also called Yuca Root, Manihot, Tapioca - is an exotic tropical root vegetable plant. The fries are more delicious than any fries you every tried!
▪️ Besides culinary value, it is simply a stunning little tree! Don't be shy to harvest the roots - this plant is easy to regrow from cuttings, so you can have your crops year round.

❗️Don't confuse Yuca Root (Cassava) with Yucca Plant from the Agave family - a no-go in the culinary world - you definitely don't want to cook that up for dinner!

📚 Learn more about Yuca Root

🍲 Cassava Fries Recipe

🛒 Order Cassava plant online

#Food_Forest #Recipes

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Date: 21 Apr 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is number one tree-grown vegetable?

What is number one tree-grown vegetable? Akee is a curious Jamaican fruit that is actually a vegetable growing on a tree! The fruit makes a delicious nutritious meal tasting like eggs and potatoes

🔺This showy fruit is a close relative of Lychee, Longan, and Rambutan.
🔺 Akee tree is easy to grow, undemanding, fast growing, and fruits right away. Sometimes it fruits twice a year!
🔺 Akee fruit must be picked after the fruit has opened naturally so the flesh is fully exposed to light.
🔺 The white arils are best parboiled for a few min and then lightly fried in butter. Then they are really delicious!

📚 More about Akee

🎥 YouTube Recipe: How to cook perfect Akee?

🛒 Order Akee tree online

#Food_Forest #Nature_Wonders #Recipes

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