Garden Blog - Top Tropicals
What is Nescafe Coffee made from?
Mucuna pruriens - Nescafe, Purple Jade Vine
💜 Earlier we mentioned Green Jade Vine and Yellow Jade Vine. This one is purple!
- Mucuna pruriens - Nescafe, Purple Jade Vine has unusual royal purple flowers. The dark violet blooms appear closely pushed together in grape like clusters, up to 1 ft long and 6" in diameter.
- The seeds known as mucuna beans or Nescafe and used as a coffee substitute.
- It has been used for generations in India as a medicinal plant.
- Very vigorous woody tree creeper - during warmer weather this vine can grow 2 feet a day!
- Related to red Jade vine (Mucuna bennettii).
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1000 times sweeter than sugar! How to eat sweets without sugar
Lippia dulcis - Aztec Sweet Herb, Sweetleaf
Lippia dulcis - Aztec Sweet Herb, Sweetleaf
Lippia dulcis - Aztec Sweet Herb, Sweetleaf
🌱 Lippia dulcis - Aztec Sweet Herb, Sweetleaf - is the answer for sugar-free diet. And it's perfectly tasty, and sweeter than Stevia!
- 🍭 This is a Mexican herb with an incredibly sweet leaf.
- 🍭 Leaves can be eaten from the plant like candy or tossed into fruit salads for an unusual addition.
- 🍭 Medicinal tea: it is used since the time of the Aztecs for coughs and colds.
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How to grow Noni tree for fruit?
💊 The medicinal Noni tree (see our earlier post) is one of the most suitable fruit trees for potting culture. A 1-3 gallon size plant will flower and fruit for you within a year.
Noni's special features:
✅ flowers and fruits at young age, nearly year around.
✅ tolerates shade and grows large ornamental leaves in filtered light.
✅ suitable for indoor culture
✅ medicinal properties are endless and cannot be under-appreciated.
✅ This plant can be grown in any climate indoors, and will produce fruit for you under minimal care. Just provide warm frost-free conditions, as this tropical tree is very cold sensitive.
- easy in cultivation, drought and water tolerant, not susceptible to insects.
📚 Learn more: Morinda citrifolia - Noni. Life Sustaining Plant
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How to grow Noni tree for fruit?
Morinda citrifolia - Noni fruit
Morinda citrifolia - Noni fruit tree
Morinda citrifolia - Noni tree
Morinda citrifolia - Noni fruit
💊 The medicinal Noni tree (see our earlier post) is one of the most suitable fruit trees for potting culture. A 1-3 gallon size plant will flower and fruit for you within a year.
Noni's special features:
- ✅ flowers and fruits at young age, nearly year around.
- ✅ tolerates shade and grows large ornamental leaves in filtered light.
- ✅ suitable for indoor culture
- ✅ medicinal properties are endless and cannot be under-appreciated.
- ✅ This plant can be grown in any climate indoors, and will produce fruit for you under minimal care. Just provide warm frost-free conditions, as this tropical tree is very cold sensitive.
- easy in cultivation, drought and water tolerant, not susceptible to insects.
📚 Learn more: Morinda citrifolia - Noni. Life Sustaining Plant
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Shocking content: flowers with ladys parts used for making tea
Clitoria ternatea - Butterfly Pea Blue
Clitoria ternatea - Butterfly Pea Lavender
Clitoria ternatea - Butterfly Pea White double flower
Clitoria ternatea - Butterfly Pea Blue
Clitoria ternatea - Butterfly Pea Blue Double flower
Clitoria ternatea - Butterfly Pea White
Clitoria ternatea - Butterfly Pea Blue Tea
Now that you've met the Sausage Tree, it's time to introduce you to Clitoria...
- 💙 Clitoria ternatea - also called Butterfly Pea, has distinctive, delicate blooms resembling certain anatomical features... These curious flowers have the shape of
clitoris - hence the name of the plant. - 💙 Nature's Wink: the Clitoria vine boasts these beautiful sexy flowers in vibrant shades of blue, white, or purple. They’re an absolute showstopper!
- 💙 Herbal Benefits: beyond its looks, the clitoria flower is known for its traditional uses as a herbal tea, including stress relief and cognitive support. The flowers also used in salads. The plant is both pretty and practical!
- 💙 Blue Tea is a caffeine-free herbal tea, or Tisane - a beverage made from a decoction or infusion of the Clitoria flower. This stunning blue tea changes color with a squeeze of lemon 🍋 - science and beauty in your cup!⛾
- 💙 In Thailand and Vietnam the Blue Tea is mixed with honey and lemon for a drink served after dinner, or as a refreshment at hotels and spas; a preparation called Nam Dok Anchan in Thai.
- 💙 Pollinator's Paradise: Bees, butterflies, and other pollinators can't resist Clitoria's allure 🐝
- 💙 Easy to grow: Clitoria vine is a gardener’s dream. It is very delicate, fine vine that is both fast growing and easy to control. It can cover a small fence, trellis in a few months. It is also great for containers - this vine will grow just the way you want it.
📚 Learn more about Clitoria and its Tea Infusion
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