A lovely ornamental shrub to about 2 m tall that produces dark green leaves with undulate margins and masses of waxy, whitish, star-shaped flowers followed by small, bright red fruits that are edible and somewhat sweet but a bit bland. It is native to humid forests in the central and eastern Himalay..
A medium-sized tree native to Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo, where it grows in rainforests to 1000 m (3300 ft.). The delicious, large, orange fruits have tangy sweet, white arils around the seeds...
This attractive, evergreen shrub with colorful flowers and fruits is a real treat for the eyes. Just don't get too close, as it is heavily armed with sharp tips on its leathery leaves. Bonellia macrocarpa subsp. panamensis, or better known as Jacquinia panamensis, is robust and undemanding and adapt..
This beautiful, evergreen shrub to 8 m tall with clusters of orange red flowers followed by greenish to orange fruits is a real treat for the eyes. Just don't get too close, as it is heavily armed with sharp tips on its leathery leaves. Bonellia macrocarpa subsp. pungens, or better known as Jacquini..
A thorny, evergreen shrub to 2 m tall with white gardenia-like flowers with same scent, followed by edible, red, excellent fruit, that tastes like tart strawberry and is great for jam. Carissa macrocarpa is native to eastern and southern Africa and is an attractive and widely cultivated ornamental i..
With a new red leaf just as spectacular as the regular C. macrocarpa, the most notable difference in this much sought-after form is its pale yellow colored crownshaft. It has thus been called the Yellow or Blonde Flame Thrower. The seeds are easily told apart from regular Chambeyronia macrocarpa by ..
A striking form of Chambeyronia macrocarpa that has a dark green crownshaft and trunk intensively streaked with bright yellow to a most amazing and beautiful effect that is somewhat reminiscent of the skin of a watermelon. This form originates in a remote mountain valley in central New Caledonia. Wi..
Famous for the incredible color of the newly opened leaf, this exciting and comparatively new-to-cultivation palm is easy to look after, performs well as an interior palm, and adds a special something to the garden with its bright red, new leaves. Germination of the large seeds is quite fast and eas..
A beautiful, broad-crowned cypress to more than 25 m tall, native only to the Monterey area on the central California coast. It is a popular ornamental in temperate climates around the world and does particularly well in coastal conditions, holding up remarkably well to wind and salt spray. In culti..
A large cycad, native to low elevation, swampy rainforests on the Malay Peninsula, that forms a trunk to 12 m (40 ft.) tall, holding a spreading crown of numerous, flat, glossy green leaves to 3 m (10 ft.) long with broad leaflets. It is a vigorous grower and best suited to the tropics...
The island of New Caledonia is loaded with strange and curious persimmons. This species bears fuchsia-pink, egg shaped fruits which make it look like an easter-egg tree. Although the fruit is probably not attractive to the human palate, it stands alone for its decorative potential. The foliage is gl..
An evergreen, medium to large tree with buttress roots, smallish, simple leaves, small, white flowers followed by cherry-sized, purplish black fruits. The fruits are edible, have a sweet and sour flavor and a very high content of antioxidants (anthocyanins). They are consumed fresh, made into jellie..
A small to medium tree to about 15 m tall, native to forests from Bangladesh to Indochina. It has very large, dark green leaves and pale bark. The enormous, lavender colored flowers are borne in panicles and slowly turn pale over several days. The durable, reddish wood of Lagerstroemia macrocarpa is..
One of the rarest palms in the world, this species has attained almost mythical status among palm enthusiasts. It is practically unknown in cultivation and only a handful of trees remain in its native habitat in northern New Caledonia. Seeds have been said to be impossible to collect; however, we ha..
This large, woody vine bears clusters of beautiful, parrot-beak-shaped, purple and yellowish green flowers on the lower reaches of its stem, followed by large pods with 6 to 15 large, disk shaped seeds. It is native to a variety of montane or riverine forest habitats throughout much of tropical Asia..
An attractive, small palm that grows in rainforests at mid-elevations on the Malay Peninsula. It sports a slender, canelike stem and a small, spreading crown of finely pinnate leaves. A rarely seen ornamental for the understorey in the humid tropical garden...
A large, vigorous vine, originally native to tropical South America and closely related or perhaps synonymous with Passiflora quadrangularis. It differs from the latter in its purplish blue flowers, small, unwinged seeds, and is said to be less demanding and more cool tolerant. In cultivation it doe..
A large tree in the Annonaceae native to tropical rainforests from the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra and Java. The wood is used for a variety of purposes...
A small to medium-sized shrub in the Fabaceae with feathery foliage and very attractive bright lemon-yellow flowers, native to central Chile. Easily grown from seeds, which should be scarified and soaked before sowing. Suitable for temperate climates in USDA Zones 8 and above...
A medium-sized palm from southeastern Brazil with a slender trunk to 8 m (27 ft.) tall, topped by a crown of beautiful, elegantly arching, feathery leaves with beautiful curly leaflets. Syagrus macrocarpa is a highly ornamental palm, as easy and rewarding to grow as the Queen Palm, and has enormous ..
This medium-sized, evergreen tree from tropical lowland and submontane forests from Sumatra to the Philippines produces large leaves and scented whitish flowers followed by fairly large, orange fruits. It makes a beautiful ornamental and is popular in Malaysia as an aphrodisiac...
A beautiful, small, dry deciduous tree native to scrub and woodlands and coastal dune forest in southeastern South Africa that sports coppery-colored, papery, flaking bark and large, pinnate leaves. I...
An artificial first generation (F1) hybrid on a female Trachycarpus wagnerianus, hand-pollinated with pollen of the rare Trachycarpus ukhrulensis that has been flowering for the first time in Europe. ...
An artificial first generation (F1) hybrid between the extremely fast growing Trachycarpus sp. 'Nova' and the fabulous Trachycarpus princeps. The resulting palms will be tall, very fast growing plants...