TopTropicals Plant Catalog

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Valued as an ornamental plant, due to its colorful and attractive flowers. The leaves are alternate, rough, hairy, heart-shaped or 3-5 lobed with serrated margins. Flowers are Hibiscus-like.

Cultivated for aromatic oil from seeds. Young leaves, shoots, and unripe seedpods are cooked as a vegetable.

The Canary Tree is a small evergreen tree, with yellow flowers and an orange center. It forms a nice small canopy, perfect for small gardens and container culture. Keep soil evenly moist. When under watered, leaves will look wilted. Do not over water. Use well-drained soil. It has a long winter span, and blooms are attractive to bees and butterflies.

Mostly used as an indoor houseplant, the flowering maple is a good alternative for those in climates that aren't suitable for maples to grow naturally. The trunk is somewhat woody, with two to three inch leaves which are quite similar to maple leaves. So far, rarely used as bonsai, but they are readily available and have 2 inch bell-shaped flowers which bloom year-round to recommend them. Shape is usually maintained through pruning, however wiring should work as long as care was taken to protect the branches. These plants do fine in ordinary potting soil.

Evergreen vine-like shrub. Blooms from late summer until frost; the plants are laden with very cool yellow-red lanterns which are carefully placed between the thumb-size green leaves.