Acid Loving Plant Seeds For Sale In New Haven

* An extract from fruit called myricerone blocks a receptor for the peptide, endothelin, an important mediator of blood vessel constriction, indicating potential for drug development.

* Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added. It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel. * The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong.

* Fragrant white or slightly pink flowers with a yellow blotch, to 2 1/2"; 4" deciduous leaves, yellow and scarlet in fall; native to the Pacific Coast, and said to fare poorly on the East Coast.

* Amelanchier spicata has clusters of small white flowers that bloom in spring. * The fruit is rich in iron and copper. It is rather small, about 8mm in diameter. * Amelanchier spicata, also referred to as the thicket shadbush, low juneberry, dwarf serviceberry,...

* It is a deciduous shrub growing to 4-metre (13 ft) tall with bright green shoots with an angular cross-section. Dried berries were stewed and made into sauces, or mixed with salmon roe and oil to eat at winter feasts.

* It is a deciduous shrub growing to 4-metre (13 ft) tall with bright green shoots with an angular cross-section. Dried berries were stewed and made into sauces, or mixed with salmon roe and oil to eat at winter feasts.

Flower buds are susceptible to damage from early spring frosts. * A shrub grown for its pale yellow, fragrant flowers in spring before leaves emerge; part or full sun; leaves dark green, gold or yellow-green in fall; Japan native.

The shoots are orange-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence. 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 showy part of the floral display, however, is the white, pink or rose sepals that become petal-like and reminiscent of poinsettias. Flowers are yellowish-green and tubular with five, reflexed lobes.

* Leaves are dark green and leathery. * Fairly dense and bushy, especially when young. * Native to primarily North and South Carolina, but also found in Virginia and Georgia. Japonica which has pendulous flower clusters.

* The shiny, alternately arranged leaves are 2 to 3 centimeters long and about a centimeter wide with finely serrated edges. Not needing much sun, the plant has a wide variety of forest homes; it is often seen sprouting out of old coast redwood stumps...

* Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added. It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel. * The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong.

It can be dried, ground into a powder then used in making cakes etc. * The fully ripe fruit is pleasantly acid with a flavour resembling green apples. This shrub reaches between one and two meters in height.

It has many commercial uses. * The wood is strong, hard, durable,and takes a good polish. It grows in forests near the coast on moderate to fertile soils in a protected, sunny position.

* Fragrant white or slightly pink flowers with a yellow blotch, to 2 1/2"; 4" deciduous leaves, yellow and scarlet in fall; native to the Pacific Coast, and said to fare poorly on the East Coast.

* Tolerates a wide range of soils, but prefers moist, humusy, nutrient-rich, neutral to slightly acidic loams. * Fruits are sour and usually not consumed raw by humans, but may be cooked for use in the preparation of wine, jelly and pies.

The leaves are 1.5-7 cm long and 1-3 cm broad, with an entire or finely serrated margin and an acute apex, and a 0.5–2 cm petiole. The fruit is a red drupe 6–7 mm diameter containing three to five pits

It was introduced to New Zealand from Scotland as a type of hedge, but became a major blight to farmers as the climate suited its growth better than its native habitat and many of its natural predators were absent.

Bulgaria east to Georgia. Spain, Portugal. Rhododendron ponticum subsp. The flowers are 3.5-5 cm diameter, violet-purple, often with small greenish-yellow spots or streaks. The leaves are evergreen , 6-18 cm long and 2-5 cm broad.

Racemosa grows in dependably moist, fairly heavy soil. Extracts from these plant materials are thought to possess analgesic, sedative, and anti-inflammatory properties. * Actaea racemosa (black cohosh, black bugbane, black snakeroot, fairy candle; syn.

It is native to the southeastern United States and as far north as the Great Lakes . Plants are often found in very acid soils in the wild. * Native to SE United States * Requires a light porous sandy soil in full sun.

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

* It has attractive small, deep crimson-pink flowers that occur early summer. * A very ornamental and variable plant. * Requires an acid humus-rich soil, succeeding in part shade or in full sun in cooler areas.

* The fruits look like berries but are drupes . * Cornus canadensis is a slow growing perennial herbaceous subshrub growing 10–20 cm tall, forming a carpet-like mat. * A prostrate deciduous groundcover with dark green leaves in summer, red in fall;...

* Landscape use: naturalizing borders with other ericaceous plants facer plants with taller plants shady bank stabilization * Fall Foliage: reddish, bronze winter color * An infusion of the leaves and stems has been used to bathe itchy skin.

* In 2006, production of wild blueberries in Quebec has reached 70 million pounds. * This plant grows best in wooded or open areas with well-drained acidic soils. * This is the earliest commercially grown blueberry to ripen * The Lowbush Blueberry is...

As plants take several years to flower in the wild, it is very sensitive to too-frequent burns and has been eliminated in some areas where this occurs. * Banksia ericifolia responds to fire by seeding, the parent plant being killed.