Foster a tropical look with the big, bold, pendulous flowers and lush foliage of the angel’s trumpet plant. This is an excellent shrub to plant in spots that get saturated with pool deck runoff.

Some plants crave a long bird bill. One tropical plant can even recognize which kind of hummingbird is slurping its nectar by the shape of its bill, scientists report online March 2 in the ...

The Bat Flower is an unusual and captivating plant known for its dark, bat-like flowers. Native to the tropical regions of ...

There’s a Reason Those Tropical Plants Look Good Enough to Eat Some of the most visually appealing ones are also delicious. Here’s how to choose — and grow — the best ones.

Additional copy by Medgina Saint-Elien. Hoya. Hoyas, also known as porcelain flowers or wax plants, are related to milkweed and are generally low-maintenance, fragrant tropical flowers that grow ...

Some tropical plants pick the best hummingbirds to pollinate flowers. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2015 / 03 / 150303095842.htm ...

Based on the climate map in A. B. Graf's "Tropica," no portion of the continental United States is considered tropical, although extreme South Florida and it's Keys come close.

Plenty of tropical plants do nicely here as summertime in-ground, landscape plants. They think they're at home. Yet we limit our use of tropicals to houseplants or, at best, in summer pots ...

The flowers are pollinated by midges, and only 5 per cent of flowers receive enough pollen to produce the pods. However a good fruiting tree can produce up to 40 pods.