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Date: 3 Jun 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Craving a Mojito? Beat the Summer heat with Mojito Elephant Ears!

Colocasia sculenta Mojito

Mojito

Colocasia sculenta Mojito

🍹 Craving a Mojito? Beat the Summer heat with Mojito Elephant Ears!

Colocasia sculenta Mojito, a spectacular variety of Elephant Ears, is a must for a rare plant collection:

🐘 Striking variegation: bold, mottled leaves in shades of green and dark purple, reminiscent of a refreshing mojito!
🐘 Large, impressive leaves: massive, heart-shaped leaves that create a dramatic and tropical look.
🐘Versatile: thrives in both sun and partial shade, making it adaptable to various garden locations.
🐘 Water-loving: ideal for bog gardens, ponds, or as a stunning addition to water features.
🐘 Container friendly: perfect for pots and containers, allowing you to bring its tropical charm to patios and balconies.
🐘 Fast growing: quickly establishes, providing lush foliage and rapid visual impact.
🐘 Low maintenance: minimal care once planted, making it a great choice for both beginner and experienced gardeners.
🐘 Heat and cold tolerant: performs well in warm climates. During cool winters, leaves may die back and regrow in Spring.
🐘 Edible tubers: produces edible corms (roots) that are a staple in many cuisines, adding a functional aspect to its beauty.
🐘 Unique garden accent: an eye-catching focal point or accent plant.

🛒 Get some Mojito for your garden

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Date: 31 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Black-black-black plant! Its totally black, thats right

Black ZZ Plant, Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

♣️ Black-black-black plant! It's totally black, that's right.

▪️ Meet the elusive Black ZZ Plant, where the leaves of this dragon truly live up to its name with their mesmerizing black hue.

Zamioculcas x Black Dragon

▪️Indoor plant enthusiasts may be familiar with its green counterpart, but this rare black variety is a collector's dream come true! You can see both green and black varieties on one of the photos.
▪️The Black ZZ Plant is a succulent marvel, boasting dark glossy foliage thanks to its high chlorophyll concentration - a rarity in the plant kingdom.
▪️With its exceptional ability to store water, the ZZ Plant can endure long periods without watering, earning its title as one of the most drought-tolerant plants on the planet.
▪️Sometimes referred to as the Aroid Palm, this ancient relic shares a unique characteristic with Gonatopus: its leaflets can detach, root, and form bulblets, a trait unseen in other aroids outside the Zamioculcadeae family.
▪️Witness the magic as juvenile leaves emerge green and transform into striking black as they mature, adding a touch of mystery and elegance to any indoor oasis.

🛒 Get the Black ZZ and surprise your friends

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Date: 31 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?

Kopsia fruticosa - Pink Gardenia

👁 What is this shocking pink gardenia? Does it exist?

🌸 Kopsia fruticosa: fondly known as the "Pink Gardenia", this gem is one of nature's most exquisite and elusive treasures.
🌸 Its flowers are a marvel, transitioning from delicate light pink to deep hues with crimson centers, emitting a subtle fragrance.
🌸 Imagine our surprise when we stumbled upon this enchanting plant labeled as a Pink Gardenia during our expedition in Thailand!
🌸 Intrigued, we delved deeper into its botanical identity. While technically not a Gardenia, this beauty is a close relative of Plumeria and Adenium we mentioned earlier, as well as Tabernaemontana (also often confused with Gardenia). All these beauties belong to the esteemed plant family Apocynaceae.
🌸 It's no wonder this plant has captured our hearts; its beauty is simply irresistible, leaving us wanting more.
🌸 With its compact growth habit, it's perfect for containers or in-ground planting, adding a touch of elegance to any garden space.

🛒 Treat yourself with a Pink Gardenia!

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Date: 30 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection

Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant

Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant flowers

Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant

Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant leaves

Jatropha podagrica - Gout Plant caudex

🪸 Attention grabber: swollen trunk, giant leaves, and flowers just like corals! A must for bonsai collection.

♥️ Jatropha podagrica: commonly known as the Gout Plant, this plant is a true attention grabber and a must-have in any container garden, as well as in succulent or bonsai plant collection.
♥️ Features a distinctive bottle-like caudex and surprisingly large tropical leaves up to 10-12 inches in diameter. Just like you saw in Adeniums.
♥️ Thrives in the shade, where its leaves grow even larger.
♥️ Perfect for natural bonsai and makes an excellent potted plant or conversation piece in a small garden.
♥️ Grows only 2-3 feet high, with a knobby, swollen stem and eye-catching, coral-like red flowers in large terminal clusters.
♥️ Prefers partial sun and well-drained soil, and is very drought-tolerant.
♥️ Easy to care for, adding exotic flair and intrigue to any plant collection.

🛒 Shop Gout plant

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Date: 24 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Three top tropical trees - from the legends of Caribbean

Yellow Poinciana, Jacaranda, and Royal Poinciana paintings

Yellow Poinciana

Jacaranda

Royal Poinciana

💛💜♥️ Three top tropical trees - from the legends of Caribbean. Yellow Poinciana, Jacaranda, and Royal Poinciana: three happy colors of the Tropics.

While traveling through the vibrant and diverse Caribbean, we acquired three exquisite local paintings rendered on jacaranda wood plates and a calabash. These pieces of art celebrate the three most spectacular and revered flowering trees of the Tropics:

Yellow Poinciana, with its bright golden blossoms, associated with joy and sunlight, symbolizing the warmth of the Caribbean spirit💛
Jacaranda, known for its striking lavender-blue flowers, is a symbol of wisdom and rebirth, blooming in a breathtaking display that signals the change of seasons 💜
Royal Poinciana, that we mentioned earlier, with its fiery red and orange flowers, is a symbol of passion and energy, referred to as the "Flamboyant" tree due to its bold and dramatic appearance ♥️

🛒 Shop flowering trees

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Date: 23 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

🗂 Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

Follow these tags to find your interests:

🦋 #Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.

#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.

🧯 #Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.

🥭 #Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.
Including: #Avocado, #Mango, #Papaya, #Guava, #Jackfruit, #Loquat

📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.

🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.

♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?

🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.

👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...

🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).

🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.

✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.

🥗 #Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.

💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.

☁️ #Shade_Garden - Plants suitable for low light conditions.

🌼 #Trees - Spectacular flowering tropical trees.

🏆 #Win - Contests, Sweepstakes, and other specials.

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Date: 23 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

🗂 Index of TopTropicals Telegram Channel

Follow these tags to find your interests:

🦋 #Butterfly_Plants - Butterfly attracting plants.

#Container_Garden - Plants suitable for container garden and indoor culture.

🧯 #Fertilizers - All the truth about fertilizers, plant food supplements, and our recommendations for different types of plants.

🥭 #Food_Forest - Fruit trees, Spice plants, and Edibles.
Including: #Avocado, #Mango, #Papaya, #Guava, #Jackfruit

📖 #Fun_Facts - interesting plant facts and legends.

🌳 #Hedges_with_benefits - Practical approach to your landscape and how to properly select showy and useful plants for your yard.

♍️ #Horoscope - Plant Horoscopes and Cat Horoscopes. Did you know that cats also have their Zodiac signs?

🛠 #How_to - Q&A about growing plants, tropical garden lifehacks.

👀 #Nature_Wonders - Unusual, amusing, outrageous, bizarre plants...

🐈 #PeopleCats - our Favorite PeopleCats (and some PeopleDogs, too).

🌸 #Perfume_Plants - Fragrant plants and perfume trees.

✍️ #Quotes - Interesting quotes.

🥗 #Recipes - Exotic recipes for tropical fruit and edibles.

💊 #Remedies - Medicinal plants.

☁️ #Shade_Garden - Plants suitable for low light conditions.

🌼 #Trees - Spectacular flowering tropical trees.

🏆 #Win - Contests, Sweepstakes, and other specials.

Join and share with friends👇
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Date: 23 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Now you have seen everything: multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant!

Adenium

🌸 Now you have seen everything: multi-grafted Adenium with different colors of flowers on the same plant!

🛒 Shop Adenium colors and hybrids

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Date: 22 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

Why did she say its a dog poo? Its a beauty from Argentina!

Caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis

💩 💃 Why did she say it's a dog poo? It's a beauty from Argentina!

🌸 This remarkable caudiciform Morning Glory - Ipomoea platensis - is native to arid regions of Argentina.
🌸 This is a showy flowering vine growing from a large caudex! The caudex can be of some weird shapes and forms. Some old lady once said "it's a dog poo plant!"
🌸 Similar to Desert roses (Adeniums), it grows caudex for water storage to survive extended drought periods.
🌸 Caudex grows over 2 ft! Vines reach over 12 ft, covered with beautiful bell-shaped pink flowers.
🌸 Can be kept as a bonsai in a pot, easy to control as a container specimen with trellis or pruning.
🌸 Although it doesn't mind dry conditions, the plant benefits from regular watering and good drainage, then it grows fast.
🌸 This is one of our favorite plants, easy to grow, makes a great conversation piece. It is a perfect for bonsai

🛒 Order Caudiciform Morning Glory

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Date: 18 May 2024 Top Tropicals Telegram channel & chat

How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea)

👾 How to get rid of a bad luck with the Garlic Vine?

🟣 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is one of the most wanted flowering tropical vines.
🟣 When in full bloom, it looks like a cascade of blue-purple over a fence or trellis.
🟣 The fun part is, crushed leaves smell like garlic, which will keep away the vampires and bad luck! 🧛
🟣 Deep lavender flowers with white throat fading to a paler lavender within a few days, and you can see all three colors on the plant at the same time.
🟣 Garlic vine has moderate growth rate and can stay compact in a pot as a specimen, and even can be grown as a house plant.

📚 Garlic vine: how to get rid of bad luck

🎥 Video: Garlic vine keeps away the vampires.

🛒 Get rid of bad luck by getting the Garlic Vine

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