(Chulta, Elephant Apple)

Everything about the chulta is big and elephant-like: the leaves, flowers, fruits and overall tree habit. It's a beauty to behold in any season. This large, evergreen tropical tree is native to forest riverbanks across tropical Asia: India and Sri Lanka to southern China and Indonesia. It develops a handsome, rounded but spreading canopy. Bark becomes reddish brown.

The leaves are simply beautiful. Each is papery, glossy dark green and the size of a man's foot. Undersides are downy and parallel...

(Longan)

Casting dense shade from its glossy, dark green leaves, longan produces clusters of sweet, spicy, edible fruits with shiny, dark seeds inside called “dragon’s eyes”. The tan fruits are often compared to lychees in taste and appearance. This tree naturally inhabits the forests of southern Asia, from India eastward to China. When mature, it becomes quite tall and develops a broad, spreading canopy. The dense, richly colored wood of longan is also valuable and typically used for furniture making and...

(African Daisy, Cape-marigold, Star-of-the-veldt)

A pretty South African daisy that bursts with flowers in white, yellow, orange or pink, cape-marigold is a fantastic bedding annual that prospers in dry sun and warmth. An upright tender perennial that often grow as an annual flower, the blossoms usually have a purple-brown center disc.

The fragrant foliage is mid-green in color and are lance-like with coarse teeth. In the warmth of summer, so long as the soil is not overly wet, each plant produces many daisies that will attract butterflies and...

(Cape-marigold, Sunshine™ Orange African Daisy)

A pretty South African daisy that bursts with flowers in white, yellow, orange or pink, cape-marigold is a fantastic bedding annual that prospers in dry sun and warmth. An upright tender perennial that often grow as an annual flower, the blossoms usually have a purple-brown center disc.

The fragrant foliage is mid-green in color and are lance-like with coarse teeth. In the warmth of summer, so long as the soil is not overly wet, each plant produces many daisies that will attract butterflies and...

(Sunshine™ African Daisy, Sunshine™ Cape-marigold)

A pretty South African daisy that bursts with flowers in white, yellow, orange or pink, cape-marigold is a fantastic bedding annual that prospers in dry sun and warmth. An upright tender perennial that often grow as an annual flower, the blossoms usually have a purple-brown center disc.

The fragrant foliage is mid-green in color and are lance-like with coarse teeth. In the warmth of summer, so long as the soil is not overly wet, each plant produces many daisies that will attract butterflies and...

(Cycad, Virgin Palm)

Virgin palm is a very slow-growing cycad with stiff, fern-like leaves radiating outward from a central, trunk-like stem. A native of southeastern Mexico, this cone-bearing plant is not a real palm, but is more ancient: growing around the time of the dinosaurs. Its fronds are covered with stiff, haired or smooth bluish green or dark green leaflets held perpendicularly to the leaf stem, which is lighter green. As the plant gets older and grows a clump of taller trunk-stems, the leaf fronds are held...

(Gum Palm, Spiny Dioon)

The gum palm is a slow growing cycad with stiff, fern-like leaves radiating outwards from a central, trunk-like stem. A native of southern Mexico, this cone-bearing plant is not a real palm, but is more ancient: recorded in fossilized rock along with dinosaur bones. Its fronds are covered with smooth, stiff, dark green leaflets held almost perpendicular to the leaf stem, and have occasional little spines. The fronds are held upright but gracefully curve or droop to make a lovely silhouette. Male...

(Purple Sweet Potato, Purple Yam, Ubi, Uhi, Water Yam, White Yam, Winged Yam)

Of all the cultivated yams, this is one of the most extensively grown. The water yam is a large, vigorous tender perennial vine that produces starchy, edible, bulbous tubers that may be white or purple fleshed. It is a major crop in the tropics and has become naturalized in many parts of the world, including the southern United States. This species is thought to have originated from Eastern Asia. Hundreds of cultivated varieties exist that vary in tuber consistency, color and size.

Water yam...

(Yellow Yam)

This is the popular yellow-fleshed yam eaten at American Thanksgiving celebrations and coveted in the deep South. Yams are large, firm tubers with brown inedible skin and firm sweet yellowish-orange flesh that softens when cooked. The drought-tolerant yellow yam is an African species and one of the most important food crops grown on the continent. Only seven yam species are major food crops and of them this is the number one seller followed by the white yam (D. cayennensis ssp. rotundata)...

(White Yam)

This is the white-fleshed yam is the second most widely grown yam in the world. Yams are large, firm tubers with brown inedible skin and firm sweet white flesh that softens when cooked. At one time the two African species, Dioscorea cayennensis and Dioscorea rotundata, were considered separate, but most taxonomists now accept the yellow yam is a subspecies of D. cayennensis. Only seven species are major food crops and this is the number two seller.

A highly diverse...