Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Tropical Plants: Tropical Garden # 50, 1 by rjuddharrison

rjuddharrison wrote:
Thanks guys- Good to see Candela and Sunshine around again. We all seem to have an eye for similar plants. Rita and I, most assuredly do. LOL, if her and I are shopping together we bee line for the same plants!

Candela, I wonder if there are different types of African Tulip. I brought some seeds back from Costa Rica, and did get one to grow. When it got taller, it had a very long trunk and then an umbrella like canopy at the top, was cool looking. Now that it's older it seems to be filling out more tree like. I'd say it is about 6 years old, and has surprisingly survived the winters fairly well. I've always been unconvinced though that it is a tulip tree, but then I have no basis to compare it too. Time will tell I suppose.

Here are a couple of pictures. It's so tall, I get a proper picture.