⚜️ What is the best perfume tree for container culture? Dwarf Chanel No 5 Tree!

Cananga fruticosa - Dwarf Ylang-Ylang, or Chanel No5 Tree - is the most desired and sought after perfume plants.

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  🔅 Elegant pendant flowers are a piece of art.
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  🔅 Easy to grow, stays compact and in nice tree-like shape. Flowers smell as great as full size Ylang Ylang tree.
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  🔅 Needs warm and humid conditions for a full aroma.
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  🔅 Perfect container plant🪴and a house plant, but keep in mind it requires bright light for profuse flowering.

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🍦 Did you know that ice cream actually grows on a tree?

🫛 Ice Cream Bean Tree (Inga edulis) - fast growing shade tree with wonderful fruit that kids love! 👯‍♀️

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  ✳️ Bean pods up to 3 ft long contain sweet, juicy, white pulp that has a soft cotton wool texture and tastes of vanilla ice-cream.
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  ✳️ The fruit has fantastic health benefits. It contains up to 25% sugar, 10% protein, 5% fiber, vitamins C, A and E, and minerals such as phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and zinc. The protein content is two times higher than that of a banana!
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  ✳️ A mature tree will produce around 100 fruits in a season. Seedlings start fruiting within 3-4 years.
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  ✳️ Fast growing, umbrella-shaped tree, 20 ft tall and almost as wide, provides plenty of shade. This is our favorite tree when we need to create shade quickly.

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🍈 Do you know what is the largest tree-borne fruit in the world?

Answer: Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is the biggest and one of the most fascinating fruit in the world.

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🐈 Cat of the Day - Philemon. Always open for more opportunities: never know where you can find a fortune!

📸 😺 👇 Share your cats in comments!

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🌸 What orchids can be grown in the ground?

Orchids have a mystique that seems to set them apart from most other flowers... they are elegant and almost unreal in their perfection... But not every gardener has luck growing traditional orchids.

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  ⚜️ Terrestrial orchids (a.k.a. ground orchids) grow in regular garden soil instead of in the air on tree branches!
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  ⚜️ Ground orchids come in many colors and shapes.
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  ⚜️ Ground orchids will be happy to bloom in sun or shade and are very easy to grow!

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🦋 What is the best butterfly and hummingbird attractor? That's the one, called Butterfly Bush.

Odontonema callistachyum - Butterfly Bush, is an easy to grow medium size shrub. It is very fast growing and will bloom for you in both shade or full sun.

🌞 Here in Florida it starts blooming in late Winter and keeps going throughout the year.

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🍟 How to make exotic fries from beautiful Cassava Tree (Yuca Root, Tapioca).

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  ▪️ Cassava (Manihot esculenta), also called Yuca Root, Manihot, Tapioca - is an exotic tropical root vegetable plant. The fries are more delicious than any fries you every tried!
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  ▪️ Besides culinary value, it is simply a stunning little tree! Don't be shy to harvest the roots - this plant is easy to regrow from cuttings, so you can have your crops year round.

❗️Don't confuse Yuca Root (Cassava) with Yucca Plant from the Agave family - a no-go in the culinary world - you definitely don't want to cook that up for dinner!

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🍲 Cassava Fries Recipe

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🥘 What is number one tree-grown vegetable? Akee is a curious Jamaican fruit that is actually a vegetable growing on a tree! The fruit makes a delicious nutritious meal tasting like eggs and potatoes 🥚🥔

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  🔺This showy fruit is a close relative of Lychee, Longan, and Rambutan.
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  🔺 Akee tree is easy to grow, undemanding, fast growing, and fruits right away. Sometimes it fruits twice a year!
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  🔺 Akee fruit must be picked after the fruit has opened naturally so the flesh is fully exposed to light.
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  🔺 The white arils are best parboiled for a few min and then lightly fried in butter. Then they are really delicious!

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🎥 YouTube Recipe: How to cook perfect Akee?

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🌿 When you need an easy plant for a shady spot, Calathea zebrina is a winner!

Calathea zebrina - Zebra Plant - is an absolute winner for your shade garden. It's very easy to establish, fast growing and always happy - as long as you water it💧

✅ Great plant for beginners, Zebra Plant won't disappoint you!

It's a large and vigorous Calathea, beautiful velvety leaves have dark green stripes, like Zebra stripes 🦓

The underside of the leaves is purple and not always visible right away because leaves grow horizontally.

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🌟 What is the most bizarre flower? Starfish Flower (Stapelia gigantea), Carrion plant, or Zulu Giant.

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  ✴️ Large, up to 12" wide flowers in shape of Star Fish.
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  ✴️ Another name Carrion refers to its unique scent, similar to rotting meat. Oddly enough, pollinating flies can't resist it
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  ✴️ The plant looks like a cactus, but it's really not, belonging to Milkweed family.
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  ✴️ Makes a stunning container plant and a conversation piece!

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