Acid Loving Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Madison

* 1/2-1" yellow-green trumpet-shaped flowers backed by white, pink, or rose sepals, "beautiful for flower effect" (Dirr); dark green simple 4-8" leaves; likes moist acid soil; native to southeast U.S. * In earlier days, malaria and other fevers were treated...

* A beautiful very vigorous variety well know for its extreme cold hardiness.

Succeeds in open woodland or along the woodland edge. Plants are very cold-hardy, tolerating temperatures down to about -30°c. Mountain-laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania .

* It is native to eastern U.S. and much used in Europe. * The fruit, which are pomes, are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. * The fruit is rich in iron and copper. * The fruit has a sweet flavor.

Requires a lime-free soil. Likes plenty of moisture and a rich loamy slightly acid soil. Plants can be grown in containers in pond margins but are then best kept in drier conditions over winter.

"Infrageneric and Sectional Relationships in the Genus Rhododendron (Ericaceae) Inferred from ITS Sequence Data" (PDF) . [5] [ full citation needed ] Azaleas make up two subgenera of Rhododendron .

* A beautiful very vigorous variety well know for its extreme cold hardiness.

* A most unusual bayberry, a small tree with narrow 5" leaves and 1" deep reddish-purple berries, which are edible and are used to make a drink. * Besides fresh consumption, the fruits may be dried, canned, soaked in baijiu (Chinese liquor), or fermented...

The cones are cylindric-conic, 4-8 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales. The shoots are orange-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence.

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.

It is valuable for checking soil erosion on watersheds. One report says that it is unclear whether this was for medicinal purposes or for the intoxicated state it could produce. * Arctostaphylos uva-ursi is a small procumbent woody groundcover shrub 5–30...

It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel. * Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added. * Cliftonia monophylla ( Buck-wheat tree , Buckwheat tree , Titi ) is a tree native to the United States...

* Rhododendron atlanticum ( Dwarf azalea or Coastal azalea ), is a species of Rhododendron native to coastal areas of the eastern United States , from New Jersey south to Georgia .

It blooms from April to May, with trusses of 6–12 flowers, campanulate, white to pink, and fragrant. * Fragrant white or pink flowers to 3" across; 8" evergreen leaves; parent of many hybrids; native to eastern China.

* This is the commercial cranberry we eat during the holidays; an attractive plant in its own right, making a low, dense groundcover, with narrow 3/4" shiny dark green leaves, turning reddish purple in fall; pretty little pinkish flowers in May and June;...

Not needing much sun, the plant has a wide variety of forest homes; it is often seen sprouting out of old coast redwood stumps or dense brambles of other forest growths. During the summer the plant produces round, edible black berries up to a centimeter...

This species occasionally hybridizes with other pine species such as Loblolly Pine ( P. Echinata ), and Pond Pine ( P. Turpentine has a wide range of uses including as a solvent for waxes etc, for making varnish, medicinal etc.

It grows in forests near the coast on moderate to fertile soils in a protected, sunny position. It is one of the species whose leaves are used for food by Koalas. * Tallowwood is so named owing to the greasy feel of the wood when cut.

* Requires an acid humus-rich soil, succeeding in part shade or in full sun in cooler areas. * Sheep laurel is a very poisonous narcotic plant the leaves of which were at one time used by some native North American Indian tribes in order to commit suicide.

It is a dense, bushy, suckering shrub that typically grows 2-6' (less frequently to 10') tall. Oblong to elliptic green leaves. Shrub, (usually closer to 6 ft.) with picturesque, horizontal branching above.

* The plant is also part of a North American formula called essiac which is a popular treatment for cancer. Like other members of the genus, it is mildly laxative and holds out potential as a long term treatment for chronic disease, in particular that...

Rhododendron ponticum subsp. Baeticum (Boiss. & Reut.) Hand.-Mazz. The leaves are evergreen , 6-18 cm long and 2-5 cm broad. Description It is a dense, suckering shrub or small tree growing to 5 m tall, rarely 8 m.

* Ilex opaca is a medium-sized broadleaved evergreen tree growing to 10-20 m tall, exceptionally up to 30 m tall, with a trunk diameter typically up to 50 cm, exceptionally 120 cm.

* The species has been introduced to other areas of Europe, and also to the Americas, New Zealand and Australia, where it is often considered a weed and is a serious problem invasive species in some areas (notably the western United States, Chile and...

* Vaccinium arboreum ( Sparkleberry or Farkleberry ) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States , from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri , and south to Florida and eastern Texas .

The leaves can be poisonous. The leaves are 9-19 cm (3-8 in ) long and 2-4 cm (0.75-1.5 in) broad. The flowers are 2.5-3 cm (1 in) diameter, white, pink or pale purple, often with small greenish-yellow spots.

It is a member of the Theaceae family or tea family. * The parent of many camellia cultivars; shiny leathery dark green leaves; flowers red, white, or pink, often produced in great quantity, in winter or spring; handsome gray trunk; wants a rich, acid...