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What does the Strawberry Tree look like? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

What does the Strawberry Tree look like?

Strawberry Tree flowering

🍓 What does the Strawberry Tree look like?
  • 🔴 Strawberry Tree, (Muntingia calabura) also known as Cotton Candy Fruit, is a super fast-growing tree with a beautiful, dense, umbrella-like canopy.
  • 🔴 Despite the name, its fruit doesn't taste like strawberries - but rather like cotton candy! Sweet, melt-in-your-mouth flavor with no acidity, making it a favorite among both kids and adults.
  • 🔴 The tree gets its name from its pretty white flowers, which resemble those of a strawberry plant.


📚 Lean more from previous posts:
What is better - Strawberry or Strawberry Tree Fruit?
Why Strawberry Tree is called Cotton Candy
What fruit tree will produce right away?

🛒 Grow Sweetness – Plant the Tree Kids Love!

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Top 3 Fastest-Growing Red-Leaf Bananas Add Bold Color to Your Garden! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Top 3 Fastest-Growing Red-Leaf Bananas Add Bold Color to Your Garden!

Banana Red Leaf, Musa x sumatrana, and Blood Leaf, Musa x sumatrana Zebrina Rojo, and Bordelon, Red Striped

🚩 Top 3 Fastest-Growing Red-Leaf Bananas – Add Bold Color to Your Garden!

💅 Looking for instant tropical flair? These red-leaf bananas are among the fastest-growing and most eye-catching ornamentals you can grow. Perfect for pots, patios, or planting in the ground - they grow fast, look exotic, and bring bold color to your space. Best of all, they're low maintenance and cold-tolerant!
  • 🔥 Banana Red Leaf, Musa x sumatrana - Stunning maroon undersides and variegated green-and-red leaves. Compact in containers (3–5 ft) or dramatic in the ground (up to 8 ft). A true showpiece.
  • 🔥 Blood Leaf, Musa x sumatrana Zebrina Rojo - Rich burgundy splashes across green foliage, with small red fruit. Loves containers and adapts well to cooler zones.
  • 🔥 Bordelon, Red Striped - Hardy and tall (10–15 ft!), with striking red-striped foliage. A Louisiana native that flowers and fruits if protected in winter.


📚 More about ornamental Bananas:

🛒 Grow fast, grow bold – these sell out quickly!

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The Most Fragrant Medicinal Herb You'll Ever Grow! A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

The Most Fragrant Medicinal Herb Youll Ever Grow!

Lippia alba - Poleo, Pitiona

❤️‍ The Most Fragrant Medicinal Herb You'll Ever Grow!
  • 🌱 Just brushing past it releases a wave of spicy, citrusy fragrance - Lippia alba, also known as Poleo or Pitiona, is an herb garden must-have. Fast-growing, drought-tough, flood-friendly, and practically indestructible - it thrives where other plants fail!
  • 🌱 HELTH BENEFITS OF POLEO - LIPPIA ALBA

  • 🌿 Crush a leaf - instantly uplifting aroma! Close relative of popular Lantana but with much better scent.
  • 🌿 Grows into a lush, dense groundcover with dainty pink blooms
  • 🌿 Used in traditional Oaxacan cooking - especially mole sauces
  • 🌿 Leaves and roots make teas and syrups for cough, anxiety, digestion, and more
  • 🌿 Known for sedative, antidepressant, and analgesic effects
  • 🌿 Each plant has a unique essential oil profile!


🌱 Whether you’re into healing herbs, culinary magic, or just want the best-smelling plant in your garden - this is it.

🛒 Bring Home Nature’s Most Fragrant Medicine!

📚 Learn more:
What is the most aromatic medicinal herb

#Food_Forest #Remedies #Discover #Hedges_with_benefits

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Is This a Plant or a Coral? A Top Tropicals Garden Blog post.

Is This a Plant or a Coral?

🔥 Is This a Plant or a Coral?

  • 🟠 Medinilla scortechinii - Orange Coral Spike - these flowers look like they came straight from a coral reef! Orange Coral Spike is a rare gem that's hard to find and easy to love.

  • 🟠 Bright orange stems burst into star-shaped blooms that mimic glowing underwater branches - but they're blooming in your garden or home instead. Exotic, rare, and totally unforgettable.

  • 🟠 Compact and easy to grow - stays under 2 ft tall.

  • 🟠 Glossy dark leaves highlight the vibrant orange panicles.

  • 🟠 Grows in light shade or filtered sun

  • 🟠 Great in pots, hanging baskets, or as an epiphytic accent

  • 🟠 Perfect for collectors of unusual tropical plants

  • 🟠 Add a pop of orange to your garden or indoor jungle – this coral spike doesn’t stay in stock for long!


🛒 Buy Your Coral Bloom Beauty

📚 More from previous post:
A splash of tropical flair

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