Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 14 Sep 2024

How to make sour taste sweet and what causes the miracle?

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum

🍋 🎂 How to make sour taste sweet and what causes the miracle?

  • 🍭Miracle Fruit, Synsepalum dulcificum - is one of the strangest tropical fruit that makes sour taste sweet!
  • 🍭 The miracle is that if lemon or other sour food is eaten after the miracle fruit, the sour tastes sweet, as if sugar has been added. That kind of magical experience is unforgettable!
  • 🍭 A natural chemical in the fruit masks the tongue sour taste buds so that lemons taste like lemonade or lemon pie, or lemon candy! The sweet sensation lasts for half an hour to a few hours.
  • 🍭 Miracle fruit berries are valued as a food supplement for chemo-therapy patients to improve the taste of food.
  • 🍭 This small, evergreen shrub grows very slowly to a height of 4-6 ft in container, and 6-10 ft in natural habitat. A 10 years old plant might be easily only 4-5 feet tall. It forms an oval to pyramidal shaped bush or small tree.
  • 🍭 Miracle fruit is a small compact bush, and can be a rewarding indoor plant. It can be grown in a 1-3 gal pot and produce most of the year. Seed to fruit in 2 to 3 years. Flower to fruit in 30 to 45 days.


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Date: 14 Sep 2024

What is the most aromatic medicinal herb

Lippia alba - Poleo, Pitiona

Lippia alba - Poleo, Pitiona

What is the most aromatic medicinal herb
  • 💮 Lippia alba - Poleo, Pitiona: this medicinal plant related to Lantana is widely cultivated in Mexico as an ornamental for its aromatic foliage and pretty white flowers.
  • 💮 The essential oil composition is unique to each plant!
  • 💮 The leaves are used for flavoring foods, such as mole sauces from Oaxaca, Mexico.
  • 💮 The plant is used medicinally for its somatic, sedative, antidepressant, and analgesic properties.
  • 💮 Leaves and roots are used to make tea or syrup for cough relief and are said to relieve symptoms from anxiety to flatulence and hypertension.


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Date: 9 Sep 2024

Why Strawberry Tree is called Cotton Candy

Strawberry Tree, Cotton Candy (Muntingia calabura)

🍭 Why Strawberry Tree is called Cotton Candy

  • 🍓The Strawberry Tree, also known as Cotton Candy (Muntingia calabura), is a fruit lover's dream!
  • 🍓 Its pretty white flowers resemble those of a strawberry plant, giving it its name. The fruits are super sweet, with no acidity, earning it the "Cotton Candy" nickname.
  • 🍓 This fast-growing tree is incredibly rewarding, producing two crops a day from spring to fall!
  • 🍓 It’s easy to grow, drought-tolerant, and fruits right away even in containers - just watch out for frost if you're outside the tropics.


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What fruit tree will produce right away?

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Date: 8 Sep 2024

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:

Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)

Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#10. Peanut Butter Tree (Bunchosia argentea)



Peanut Butter Tree, earns its name from its fleshy fruits that boast a delightful peanut butter flavor. Compact in size, small tree reaching only 10-15 ft or kept as a bush, it's a perfect choice for limited spaces. Can thrive indoors, starting to fruit within just 2-3 years from seed.

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Date: 6 Sep 2024

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:

Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)

Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)

Top 10 fast-fruiting trees:
#9. Blackberry Jam Fruit (Randia formosa)


🖤 Blackberry Jam Fruit, Jasmin de Rosa is a curious small evergreen tree or bush that combines features of a fragrant flower and delicious dessert fruit which tastes like fresh Blackberry jam. Fragrant white flowers are similar to Gardenia.

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