🥂 What fruit can you drink? Costa Rican Cas is the Guava for Drinking, yet with a bonus of health benefits!

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  🥝 The fruit of Cas Guava (Psidium friedrichsthalianum) has unusual tart flavor with passionfruit and pineapple tones, more pronounced than common Guava🍍
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  🥝 Cas Guava used in pies, salads, fresh juices, ice-cream, jams, and as a base for the refreshing drink Fresco de Cas!🍹
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  🥝 High pectin content makes firm jellies.
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  🥝 Hydrating and low glycemic index, suitable for those mindful of sugar consumption.
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  🥝 Rich source of fiber, vitamin C, antioxidants, phosphorus, potassium, copper, vitamin A, and folic acid.
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  🥝 This small tree or bush is very fast growing and undemanding, usually pest free (unlike most Guavas that can be very bugsy).
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  🥝 Tolerates hot summers and short frosts, appreciates well-drained soils.
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  🥝 Easy to grow, drought-tolerant once established, suitable for container cultivation.
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  🥝 Seedlings start flowering and fruiting at a young age, typically 2-3 years old from seed.

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What plant has fragrant leaves and flowers? Soft and fuzzy Tropical Lilac!

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  🟣 Cornutia grandifolia, also known as African lilac, Jamaican lilac, or Tropical Lilac, is a fast-growing, large shrub with astonishing fragrant velvet leaves.
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  🟣 Tall stalks shoot out multiple lavender blue flowers, creating an outstanding display.
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  🟣 Attracting butterflies and hummingbirds, it adds life to any garden with its lively inflorescence 🦋
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  🟣 Leaves can grow very large, up to 10" wide. They are fuzzy, very soft to touch, and aromatic, emitting pleasant tobacco-like scent when rubbed.
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  🟣 Relatively cold hardy, Tropical Lilac thrives in full sun or semi-shade positions, bringing joy with its pleasant aroma and beautiful blooms.

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🐈 Why Bob got his nickname "Hamas"

It's for his urge to dig tunnels everywhere - from laundry to pillows. This terrorist secures his position and starts looking for his next target. Then he attacks other #PeopleCats from his tunnel... without declaring a war!..

Be safe and have a peaceful sleep. Good night.🌜

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🍈 How to always have lots of Guava Juice.

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  🧡 Psidium littorale, also known as Cattley Guava, is a charming small tropical fruit tree.
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  🧡 Round fruits offer a unique culinary experience with a sweet and tangy flavor, perfect for various dishes and drinks.
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  🧡 Surprisingly cold-hardy, it adds both beauty and flavor to any landscape.
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  🧡 Ideal for containers
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  🧡 A must-have for fruit lovers seeking a tropical treat.
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  🧡 One tree can bring enough fruit for making a delicious, aromatic, refreshing Guava juice for the whole family during Summer months. Just put the fruit in a blender, add some water, ice and sugar and enjoy!🥤

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🍈 How to always have lots of Guava Juice.

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  🧡 Psidium littorale, also known as Cattley Guava, is a charming small tropical fruit tree.
• 
  🧡 Round fruits offer a unique culinary experience with a sweet and tangy flavor, perfect for various dishes and drinks.
• 
  🧡 Surprisingly cold-hardy, it adds both beauty and flavor to any landscape.
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  🧡 Ideal for containers
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  🧡 A must-have for fruit lovers seeking a tropical treat.
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  🧡 One tree can bring enough fruit for making a delicious, aromatic, refreshing Guava juice for the whole family during Summer months. Just put the fruit in a blender, add some water, ice and sugar and enjoy!🥤

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🦩 Flamingo pink with fruity fragrance!

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  💕 Quisqualis Indica - Rangoon Creeper - is an extremely beautiful plant.
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  💕 Shrubby vine with pale-pink to deep crimson star shaped flowers, covering the entire plant when in full bloom.
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  💕 It's scent is unforgettable, fruity and intoxicating...
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  💕 The flowers are born in clusters and each flower has many variations of color, depending on how old the flower is.
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  💕 The flower starts out white and or pink striped and turn solid pink and finally dark pink on maturity.
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  💕 Can grow into large woody vine covering a fence or big trellis.

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🤴 What was discovered in the Pyramids: Pigeon Pea - an Ancient Superfood...

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  🫘 Cajanus cajan - Pigeon Pea - existed for more than 4800 year! It's been widely consumed in South Asia, South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Documented in India since 2,800 BC; reached Ancient Egypt around 2,200 BC.
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  🫘 Provides flavorful, nutritious, and healthy food, with potential to become widely popular like Japanese sushi 🍱
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  🫘 It is a showy perennial woody shrub or small tree, 4-8 ft tall, with soft leaves. Can be grown in container
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  🫘Pretty flowers are yellow, with purple or red streaks, pods containing oval to round seeds.
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  🫘 Many culinary uses: the tasty and healthy beans used in rice dishes, soups, stews, tempeh, tofu. Unripe pods eaten in curries, leaves and young shoots cooked as a vegetable.
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  🫘 Rich source of fiber, protein, vitamins (B, C, E, K), and minerals (calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc).
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  🫘 Medicinal value: various folk medicinal uses for sores, bladderstones, jaundice, skin irritations, bronchitis, coughs, pneumonia, toothache, dysentery, and more.
• 🫘 Everyone can grow it! The plant is super easy, tolerates poor soils, drought tolerant, improves soil quality like many other beans.

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☕️ What flower smells like warm chocolate?

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  💙 Portlandia grandiflora - Glorious Flower of Cuba is an extremely rare plant.
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  💙 Luscious perfume of bell-like flowers reminiscent of warm, creamy chocolate.
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  💙 Small compact tree, perfect for containers or small gardens.
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  💙 One of very few tropical plants that tolerate alkaline soils❗️

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

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  🟣 Garlic vine (Mansoa alliacea) is one of the most wanted flowering tropical vines.
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  🟣 When in full bloom, it looks like a cascade of blue-purple over a fence or trellis.
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  🟣 The fun part is, crushed leaves smell like garlic, which will keep away the vampires and bad luck! 🧛
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  🟣 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.
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  🟣 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.

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🐱🐶 Are these kittens or puppies?

Mango - the dog we rescued - happened to be a few weeks away from... bringing into the world these 8 cute pups!

Good night and sweet dreams about cute kittens and puppies🌜

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