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What plant is a vine, a cactus, a tasty fruit, and a pretty flower at the same time? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What plant is a vine, a cactus, a tasty fruit, and a pretty flower at the same time?

Perescia aculeata - Barbados Gooseberry

🐰 What plant is a vine, a cactus, a tasty fruit, and a pretty flower at the same time? Barbados Gooseberry!

Perescia aculeata - Barbados Gooseberry is in full bloom all Fall through Winter, these flowers are so pretty!

📚 Learn more about this fruiting Cactus vine with pretty flowers and tasty fruit:
What is Barbados Gooseberry?

🛒 Plant Barbados Gooseberry

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What fruit smells like roses? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What fruit smells like roses?

What fruit smells like roses? What fruit smells like roses? What fruit smells like roses?
😏 What fruit smells like roses? Rose apple!

  • 🌹 If you liked the Java Plum (Jambolan) from our earlier post, its close relative is even more exciting, because the fruit smells like roses!

  • 🌹 Syzygium jambos - Rose Apple - is a fragrant delight fruit! Also known as Malabar Plum or Pomme Rosa, the Rose Apple produces crisp, juicy fruits with a distinct rose scent, highly prized for jellies and confections.

  • 🌹 This easy-to-grow plant is moderately cold-hardy and can tolerate poor soils.

  • 🌹 Rose Apple trees are versatile – they make attractive, wide-spreading shade trees and can also thrive as compact, bushy fruiting plants in containers. Whether in the ground or a pot, this charming tree brings beauty and fragrance to any space!


🛒 Order Rose Apple

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What fruit smells like roses? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What fruit smells like roses?

Syzygium jambos - Rose Apple, fruit on a tree

Syzygium jambos - Rose Apple, fruit on a tree

Syzygium jambos - Rose Apple, fruit on a plate

Syzygium jambos - Rose Apple, fruit on a plate

Syzygium jambos - Rose Apple, flowers

Syzygium jambos - Rose Apple, flowers

😏 What fruit smells like roses? Rose apple!
  • 🌹 If you liked the Java Plum (Jambolan) from our earlier post, its close relative is even more exciting, because the fruit smells like roses!
  • 🌹 Syzygium jambos - Rose Apple - is a fragrant delight fruit! Also known as Malabar Plum or Pomme Rosa, the Rose Apple produces crisp, juicy fruits with a distinct rose scent, highly prized for jellies and confections.
  • 🌹 This easy-to-grow plant is moderately cold-hardy and can tolerate poor soils.
  • 🌹 Rose Apple trees are versatile – they make attractive, wide-spreading shade trees and can also thrive as compact, bushy fruiting plants in containers. Whether in the ground or a pot, this charming tree brings beauty and fragrance to any space!


🛒 Order Rose Apple

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How to get a large, bushy, exotic fruit tree in no time. A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

How to get a large, bushy, exotic fruit tree in no time

🌳 How to get a large, bushy, exotic fruit tree in no time

*️⃣Meet the Divine Berry - Syzygium cumini - Jambolan, Java Plum

*️⃣Jambolan boasts fragrant white flowers in clusters at stem tips and produces purplish-black berries with sweet or mildly tangy flavors.

*️⃣These versatile fruits can be enjoyed raw or turned into tarts, sauces, and jams.

*️⃣Beyond its culinary use, Jambolan plays a role in folk medicine, with seeds, leaves, and bark used in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine.

*️⃣According to Hindu tradition, Rama survived on this fruit during his 14-year exile, earning it the title "fruit of the gods." Hindu mythology even describes Lord Krishna’s skin as the color of Jambul. The leaves are commonly used to decorate marriage pendals in India.

*️⃣This fast-growing, bushy tree isn't just for fruit lovers – it also makes a beautiful ornamental, forming dense privacy screens. The tree grows super fast - becoming a large, bushy screen in just two seasons, making it perfect for privacy or creating a dense ornamental barrier.

🎥 The tree on the video is only 3 years old!

🛒 Plant your own Jambolan

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