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JunglePlants JungleSeeds&Gardens - Specialists in Exotic Seeds & Plants |
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Tropical Fruit (Delivery May to October)
If any of you have a passion for growing tropical fruit, then this section should be of real interest to you. We hope to expand the number of varieties available here so please keep an eye on updates. |
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Annona montana 2 Litre Plant £24.95 JP2566 |
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A small cool tolerant, deciduous tree with bright green glossy leaves growing to 15ft when planted but much smaller to 6ft if container grown and lightly pruned. Custard apples make excellent container specimens even grown from seed when they can come into fruit bearing age after just 2-3 years. The trees produce a small knobbly fruit with soft, creamy white flesh often having a minty or custardy flavour. Often called the sugar apple it is extremely popular throughout the tropics. This hardier mountain form with very fragrant fruit will take temperatures down to frost level once mature and therefore easier to over winter under frost free greenhouse or conservatory. |
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Carica Papaya Babaco 1 Litre Plant £16.25 JP2085 |
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Rare cool tolerant
Mountain Papaya - Grow your own Papaya Fruits on a dwarf 3ft to 6ft
tree! |
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Carica Pubescens 1 Litre Plant £16.25 JP2616 |
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The cool tolerant parent of the Babaco hybrid this tough mountain Papaya will tolerate short spells down to frost level but best grown in warm humid conditions. We think that like the Babaco it will be easier to overwinter than normal Papaya in a heated glasshouse. The fruit is smaller and although it can be eaten raw is best cooked or made into jam. A small branching tree not reaching more than 6ft in pots even after a few years so ideal as a pot grown conservatory plant. |
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Coffea arabica
Sold Out! 1 Litre Plant £14.85 JP1383 |
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Such a well known commodity! But did you know that the plants make interesting house or conservatory shrubs with dark, glossy green leaves, small white scented flower clusters followed by bright red coffee beans. Don’t get too excited though about grinding your own coffee from the seed - unless it is dried and cured correctly, it tastes awful! |
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Eugenia uniflora 1 Litre Plant £27.00 JP2340 |
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The Surinam cherry rarely grown outside of the Americas is a bush or small tree to 25ft in height that can be kept to a manageable size when pot grown . It has adapted to both subtropical and tropical climates and is hardy to -3°C when full grown and possible a good candidate for a sunny winter cool conservatory. Plants like full sun and are drought tolerant, needing only moderate rainfall. Fruits develop and ripen in just 3 weeks from flowering on young trees and eaten fresh with sugar or used in preserves. |
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Psidium guajava 1 Litre Plant £19.95 JP2567 |
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These plants have been raised by seed from a large hybrid guajava with tennis ball sized green fruits. Guava's grow best in full sun with tropical or semi tropical conditions. For this you will need a heated glasshouse. Flowers will self-pollinate and fruit develops in a few months from young 2 year old trees. Guava's can be eaten fresh but more often are used to flavor drinks, desserts, sauces, preserves, and many other food products. |
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Sweet Potato Beauregard Improved n£ Ipomoea batatas 1 Litre Plants £9.95 JP2614 |
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We are now offering
potted plants of sweet potatoes for you to over winter in a heated glass
house in the same way that you would look after one of the ornamental
types like Ipomoea blackie. We supply full instructions for you to take
as many cuttings (slips) from this plant as you want in early spring,
that can be grown on in pots to obtain larger plants before planting out
early June. As long as you keep the plant above 15C in winter it will
keep growing as an herbaceous perennial. |
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Sweet Potato Georgia Jet n£ Ipomoea batatas 1 Litre Plants £9.95 JP2615 |
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Ipomoea batatas
Beauregard Improved - 1 litre plants |
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Sweet Potato Ipomoea batatas 'Tainung 65' or 'T65 n£ Ipomoea batatas 1 Litre Plants £9.95 JP2613 |
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We are now offering
potted plants of sweet potatoes for you to over winter in a heated glass
house in the same way that you would look after one of the ornamental
types like Ipomoea blackie. We supply full instructions for you to take
as many cuttings (slips) from this plant as you want in early spring,
that can be grown on in pots to obtain larger plants before planting out
early June. As long as you keep the plant above 15C in winter it will
keep growing as an herbaceous perennial. |
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Symbol Code To Grow --- Easy n, Moderate n and Challenging n May be ok for a dry Conservatory ♣ Backlog for Fresh Seed --- u New Seeds not in Catalogue ---« Hardiness --- ] (To -5°C) ]] (To -10°C) ]]] (To -15°C) Growing Symbols --- £ Sunny position £ Shady position S Lots of Water |
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