Acid Loving Plant Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Chicago

* The plant is successful in natural landscape and native plant palette style, and habitat gardens and public sustainable landscape and restoration projects that are similar to its habitat conditions.

'Fire Hill' is a popular cultivar with red flowers. * Prunus tenella Batsch, Dwarf Russian Almond , is a species of deciduous shrubs in the genus Prunus , native to steppes of Eastern Europe and Western Siberia , as well as dry open sites of Caucasus...

* Amelanchier spicata has clusters of small white flowers that bloom in spring. * Amelanchier spicata, also referred to as the thicket shadbush, low juneberry, dwarf serviceberry, or low serviceberry (historically also called "pigeon berry"), is a species...

Used for small articles. * Wood - fine grained, hard, very heavy, reddish. Its pome fruits are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. * Amelanchier ovalis , commonly known as Snowy Mespilus , is a serviceberry shrub.

* Rubus leucodermis (blackcap raspberry, black raspberry, whitebark raspberry, or blue raspberry,) is a species of Rubus native to western North America, from British Columbia, Canada south to California, New Mexico and Mexico.

* The bush grows to a maximum height of 13 feet (4 m ), and the prickles are sparse to scattered along the stalks.

* A small deciduous tree with gray bark and spreading branches; 1/4" bright red fruit; native to West Virginia and southwest Virginia. It is dioecious, with male and female reproductive parts on separate plants.

But it is thinly distributed over much of its native range, and is becoming rare in many areas. * The species is found in scattered populations over much of the eastern United States, as far north as West Virginia, south to northern Florida, and west...

* The seed can be eaten raw or cooked. The roasted seed can be used as a coffee substitute. The seed is rich in carbohydrates, it can be dried, then ground and used as a flour in breads, puddings, as a thickener in soups etc.

* The species is grown as an ornamental tree for its strongly fragrant flowers. * The tree is native in the Mediterranean region, Iran and parts of central Asia. * Flowers bloom in mid spring and are pollinated mainly by bees and insects.

It was cultivated by the Aztec in pre-Columbian times, and was so valued that it was given as an annual tribute by the people to the rulers. Chia fresca is a popular regional drink, and the Mexican state of Chiapas is named after the plant.

* The dried leaves are used as a tea substitute. * In Bulgaria, where it grows in abundance, the hips are used to make a sweet wine. * The dog rose was the stylized rose of medieval European heraldry, and is still used today.

It is one of the earliest producing crookneck squash on the market that produces all summer long. * Golden Summer Crookneck is a bush type plant that yields of buttery-yellow squash with narrow curved neck that are very easy to grow.

* Passiflora edulis is a vine species of passion flower that is native to Paraguay , Brazil and northeastern Argentina ( Corrientes and Misiones provinces). An agreeable cooling taste, somewhat like an orange with a mixture of acid.

It was used for canning, juice and fresh market. * This heirloom variety was created by Rutgers University in the 1930's. It was the main commercial tomato grown in New Jersey for many years.

* The fruit is sweet and juicy with a good flavour that has a hint of apple. It usually grows to only 3-5' tall and features 5-petaled, showy, white flowers in drooping clusters which appear before the leaves emerge in early spring.

* The fruit contains about 4.9% sugars, 3.2% protein, 0.9% pectin. * The average yield from wild trees in the Himalayas is 83kg per year, though some trees yield up to 200kg. * The fruit tends to be quite large and fragrant, and when carefully wrapped...

It is native from New York to Nebraska south to Mexico and Florida. There is a local disjunct population in Mexico as well. * Rhamnus caroliniana ( syn. In Missouri, it is typically found along woodland streams, open wooded hillsides, upland ridges, thickets...

Tolerates light shade but does not fruit so well in such a position. This species is closely related to P. Established plants are drought tolerant. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Insects.

* The nuts also provide a significant food source for wildlife. * Plants can fruit in 5 - 7 years from seed and yields from mature trees are around 25 - 60 kilos per tree. * Chinese chestnuts have evolved over a long period of time in coexistence with...

* The fruit has a slightly acid, sweet aromatic flavour, they can be eaten out of hand or cooked in pies, sauces, jellies etc. * The fruits are the sweetest when soft and orange. * Loquats are unusual among fruit trees in that the flowers appear in the...

A pleasant mild flavour, with a similar texture to the leaves, they make a pleasant and pretty addition to the salad bowl. * The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish.

* Native birds such as Gila woodpeckers, purple martins, house finches, and gilded flickers live inside holes in saguaros. When the saguaro dies and its soft flesh rots, the callus remains as a so-called "saguaro boot", which was used by natives for storage.

* The fruit contains about 2.8% dry weight vitamin C. * 2" pinkish-purple flowers; scarlet hips to 1/2"; red branches; spreads into dense thickets by suckering from roots.

* White flowers in May in clusters to 4"; fruits larger than those of most Sorbus species, about 1", roundish or pear-shaped, brown or green with red tints, edible when overripe or frosted, used in beer-making; orange and dark-brown bark, used in tanning;...

* The fruit is sweet and juicy with a good flavour that has a hint of apple. It usually grows to only 3-5' tall and features 5-petaled, showy, white flowers in drooping clusters which appear before the leaves emerge in early spring.

The leaves are ovate to oblong-elliptic, 9-millimetre (0.35 in) to 30-millimetre (1.2 in) long, and 4-millimetre (0.16 in) to 16-millimetre (0.63 in) wide, with an entire margin. The bright red, acidic berries were used extensively for food throughout...