Durian fruit — or left­overs from “The Inva­sion of the Body Snatchers” ?

You will not believe the fruit trees you can find at Mimosa Nurs­ery in East Los Ange­les! The trop­i­cal fruit nurs­ery, founded in 1982, is on 3 acres near the “Bermuda Tri­an­gle” junc­tion of the Santa Ana and Long Beach free­ways. The owner and founder, Gilbert Guyenne (Nguyen Dung Tien), cre­ated the first exotic trop­i­cal nurs­ery in the United States. Start­ing out with plants pri­mar­ily from Viet­nam, Mr. Guyenne’s stock has expanded to include the rare and exotic trop­i­cal plants of China, Cam­bo­dia, Thai­land, India, Mex­ico and the Mid­dle East. They also sup­ply many local nurs­eries and the pres­ti­gious Hunt­ing­ton Botan­i­cal Gardens.

This nurs­ery is truly a des­ti­na­tion, like vis­it­ing a lit­tle slice of an exotic land.

In addi­tion to dozens of exotic fruit trees you will see and hear birds whistling in their bam­boo cages and water lilies float­ing in their ponds.

Until I started this project I never imag­ined a place like this existed in Los Ange­les. Before you go be sure to get good direc­tions, because 2 major free­ways (Santa Ana and Long Beach) con­verge nearby. On the web­site they have a very long list of fruit trees they try to have on hand. Get more infor­ma­tion includ­ing the phone num­ber at www​.Mimos​ala​.com.

Red Pep­per plant