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Rare gardenia from Africa with blooms sporadically year round. Covered with flowers when in bloom. Strong fragrance, unusually shaped leaves. Rare gardenia with star-like tubular flowers. It is a slow growing, round shrub and has large leaves of unusual diamond shape and delicate to touch unlike most of gardenias with waxy leaves. The plant blooms sporadically several times a year - year round. Fragrance is very strong and sweet. One day the whole plant is covered with blooms that stay a few days and then drop all together. A must for rare plant collection.

Red Cassia, Ceylon Senna. Graceful tree with spreading, drooping branches appearing to be overweighted by its wealth of clustering red blossoms. Has alternate pinnate leaves in pairs with colored margins which further enhance the appearance.

Jamaica Caper Tree, Mustard Tree. Jamaica caper produces large quantities of flowers with white petals and many purple stamens, which extend beyond the petals. Fruit are slender, rust-colored pods which split open to expose orange-red seeds. The dense, strong Jamaica caper is very wind resistant and extremely salt tolerant.

Verawood. Beautiful large specimen tree with bright golden-yellow to orange flowers. Drought tolerant once established. Needs good drainage, but tolerates poor soils. Great shade tree.

Red Kapok tree is a remarkable tree with spectacular display of bright red flowers, which bloom during the spring season. The flowers are large, showy, and have a sweet fragrance, making them popular with birds and insects. The tree's blossoms are also used in traditional medicine for their medicinal properties.

Dwarf Golden Tabebuia. A sparse crowned small to medium tree with large heads of golden yellow flowers. Good choice for a small garden or potting culture.

Panama red Passion fruit. A hybrid passionfruit that is vigorous and more tropical than others. The large fruit has attractive red skin and crops very heavily from Autumn through to Spring. Delicious fruit, flavor is appealing, musky, guava-like, acid. Great for drinks. Vigorous fast growing vine that is relatively cold tolerant.
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The variety was named after its creator Gary Zill, one of the greatest mango selectionists (Florida).
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Miracle Fruit - unique fruit makes sour taste sweet.
It is one of the strangest tropical fruits. 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. 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.
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Colvilles glory. Specimen tree with very conspicuous cylindrical or cone shaped clusters of bright orange flowers that are bright red in bud.

A rare exotic fruit tree from southern Africa, Spanish Tamarind, or Wild Medlar, is a hidden gem for fruit lovers and collectors. It produces small, round fruits with a sweet-tart flavor, enjoyed fresh, dried, or cooked into jams, sauces, or even fermented beverages. This plant isn't just tasty - it's packed with health benefits. The fruit is rich in vitamin C, fiber, and essential minerals. Traditionally used as natural medicine, the leaves and bark are brewed for fever, colds, and digestive issues. Bark and foliage yield natural dyes in yellow, green, and purple. The tree is easy to grow in warm climates (Zones 9-11) and can handle poor soil, dry weather and even cold snaps. What makes this even more impressive? The tree has beautiful, lush velvet leaves - soft to the touch and tropical in appearance - yet surprisingly hardy for such large, tender-looking foliage. Give it full sun, some water, and it'll reward you with 20-40 fruits per season. Hard to find and easy to grow, Spanish Tamarind is a perfect addition to your food forest or tropical collection.

The 'Silas Woods' is an outstanding variety of Sapodilla. The tree has dwarf growth habit (under 20 ft in the ground) and adapts well to a container. This variety is highly productive. Trees are producing year round, the branches often require support as they get very heavy loaded with fruits.
Perfect fruit tree for small yards and container culture!
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The best variety for potting culture - the most profuse producer, flowering and fruiting nearly year round providing bright light and warmth. Although the fruit are smaller than other varieties and average 4-5" size.

Hiptage. A woody climbing shrub with clusters of pink to white and yellow fragrant flowers and 3-winged, helicopter-like fruits. Flowers have very interesting shape and look like a decorative accessory, with fluffy-toothed edges. The fragrance is very strong and pleasant, resembles fruity perfume. Used medicinally in India. Blooms profusely from January through March!

Monkey Ear, Ear Pod Tree, Elephant Ear Tree. Looking for a cool looking tree that grows faster than your to-do list? This large, feathery beauty is one of the quirkiest members of the subtropics.
This fast-growing, cold-hardy giant provides ample shade in no time, making it perfect for anyone seeking instant relaxation under a canopy. But here's the real kicker - the tree's pods curl up to resemble ears! These unique legume pods aren't just fun to look at, they're also great for crafts and decorations. Nature's art project, anyone?
So, if you're looking for a curious tree with personality (and maybe a bit of ear charm), the Monkey Ear Tree is ready to impress. Grow it, shade it, and get crafty with its ear-shaped pods!

Dwarf Hawaiian Papaya with orange pulp, very sweet and aromatic. The trees grow only 5-6 ft high, or even smaller in containers. It starts fruiting when 3-4 ft tall. Solo Papayas are self pollinating. The delicious fruit of the papaya is good for you as a dessert or as a digestive aid (it contains the enzyme papain, which is essential to digestion).
Papaya does not take shipping well, but recovers easily (do not overwater!).
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With its fragrant white flowers of a beautiful shape and very dark green waxy leaves, elongated and pointed, this plant is an amazing addition to a rare fragrant plant collection.
Slow growing, and low growing bush which makes it very valuable for landscape understory. It can be trimmed and maintained in small size 3-4 ft; however if you let it go it will grow into very attractive, dense and bushy specimen up to 5-6 ft tall. Great specimen, accent plant, and container plant.
This rare species of Tabernaemontana is often confused with T. divaricata (commonly known as Pinwheel Jasmine) and T. orientalis (Banana Bush). However this Australian relative of Pinwheen Jasmine plant has its own distinctive features, and flowers look more like T. africana, although smaller size (1" in diameter).
Learn more: How to establish Tabernaemontana and get more fragrant blooms

Collectable variety of Canna Lily with bright red flowers and burgundy leaves. Each stem will produce blooms year round when mature. Adds instant color in mixed containers or landscapes. Perennial growing up to 6-7 ft, with long narrow leaves and showy red flowers. Tolerates flooding, grows well along waterline. Used in seed jewelry. This species is also used for necklaces and rosaries in India.

Synonym: Lonchocarpus capassa. Apple Leaf, Rain Tree, Mupandapanda. Medium-sized rare exotic tree from Tanzania and Namibia. Purple to mauve flowers in pendulous sprays are sweetly scented. Lush foliage looks very tropical. Relatively hardy tree, tolerates poor soils, grows well in sandy soils.

Jasminum sambac Mali Chat (Malichat) - The rarest variety of Jasmine - with triple, garland-like flowers. Collectible item.
This variety is high demand and very slow growing. You can buy it in person locally at our garden center at Ft Myers, Florida.. See the size of actual plants for sale.

This is a very small version of the favorite aromatic Guava - Nana. It grows only up to 5-6 ft tall with a short trunk and branching, bushy habit. Perfect for those who have limited space. It can be grown in a pot and fruits heavily. Providing warm conditions, the tree can bear fruit almost year around. The fruit is round, about 2", pretty good size for a dwarf tree. The flesh is sweet, aromatic, and varies from white to yellow to pink.
The leaves can be either smaller or regular size, in both cases the tree has a dwarf habit.

Dutchmans Pipe, Bejuco de Santiago. Pale green pitcher-shaped flowers striped tan with a long tail. Deeply lobed glossy leaves with light veins. It is quite adaptable and can be grown in subtropical areas, does well in low light conditions and can be grown indoors.

Yellow Pitaya Thai Gold, sometimes called Hawaiian Golden. A rare yellow-skinned variety with white flesh, known for its sweet flavor with a hint of tartness. Sweet but milder, sometimes described as bland: opinions vary on its flavor - some find it bland, others like it. Referred to in some gardening forums as possibly a local Hawaiian selection.
Pitaya is a highly prized, vining, fruit bearing cactus is terrestrial/epiphytic plant which is extremely unusual. It's fleshy stems reach up to 30ft. long, climbing onto walls or over trees using aerial roots. Magnificent flowers, stunningly beautiful fruit with an intense color, curious shape, and a delicious taste. The night blooming white flowers can be up to 14 inches in length. The fruit is eaten chilled and cut in half so the flesh may be spooned out. The juice is used in frozen drinks. It is a must have for any collector or gardener with the flair for the unusual.

Fast-growing, has creamy white flowers with long tubes, which are extremely fragrant after dark. In some places it is known as Lady of the Night, though a number of other scented plants have also been given this name. Perfect houseplant for bright window.

This large fragrant lily is a very versatile and hardy plant. It makes a great feature plant for the home garden, especially when large. It can be grown in a wide range of conditions from full sun to half shade or more. Also flowers well in containers.