Acid Loving Plant Specimen Tree For Sale In Colorado Springs

* The fruit, which are pomes, are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked. * The bark can be made into a herbal medicine for expectant mothers. * The fruit has a sweet flavor. * The fruit is rich in iron and copper.

* A shrub or tree, resembling S. Pseudocamellia, which see, but with longer leaves, smaller flowers (in June and July), and petals that are reddish at the base; needs acid soil; native to Japan.

* It was the first magnolia to be scientifically described, and is the type species of the genus Magnolia ; as Magnolia is also the type genus of all flowering plants , this species can be seen to typify all flowering plants.

* In the far west of its range, it hybridizes readily with the closely related lodgepole pine ( P. * The cone for the Jack pine tree is usually 5 cm and curved at the tip. * The Jack Pine ( Pinus banksiana ) is a North American pine with its native range...

* A decidious Tree growing to 20 m (65ft 7in) at a fast rate. It is in flower in March, and the seeds ripen in June. It is commonly found in flood plains and/or swamps . * Betula nigra ( River Birch ; also occasionally called Water Birch ) is a species...

A relative of the evergreen Camellias of Asia, other common names include summer dogwood and Mountain Stewartia. The flowers are camellia-like, 6-12 cm diameter, with five white petals and numerous white, yellow or purple stamens; they appear in early...

The height of this tree is 20–35 m. * Light blue-green or bright to dark green needles, 3-5"; of irregular, picturesque habit, with crooked leaning branches; bark orange-red or orangish; much used for bonsai and in the landscape for its appealing form;...

* A Southeast U.S. native, small understory tree with a broad, rounded crown or a large shrub. May be grown as a large, multi-stemmed shrub or trained as single trunk tree. Unripe fruits are sometimes pickled.The fruit is about 4cm in diameter.

* The Strawberry Tree grows to 5-10 m tall, rarely up to 15 m, with a trunk diameter of up to 80 cm. When fully ripe it falls from the tree and so it is advisable to grow the plant in short grass in order to cushion the fall of the fruit.

* Tolerates acid and infertile soils and waterlogged soils. * Larch are commonly found in swamps, bogs, and other low-land areas. The Bonsai will produce cones but they are small, so they seem in proportion to the tree.

It is native from Massachusetts to Delaware and west to Wisconsin and Arkansas. * It is naturally a wetland tree, and develops a shallow, fibrous root system, unlike many oaks , which have a strong, deep taproot when young.

* White oak grows over much of eastern North America and is an important hardwood timber tree. * White oak is the Illinois State Tree. * It is not unusual for a white oak tree to be as wide as it is tall.

* Chinese pine is a conical tree that will grow to 50-70' tall in its native habitat, but is usually seen much smaller in cultivation. Needles (to 6” long) in bundles of two are an attractive dark green.

* Needles to 10", cones to 3 1/2"; native to Yunnan, China. It is found only in China ( Yunnan ). * Yunnan Pine ( Pinus yunnanensis ) is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.

This species occasionally hybridizes with other pine species such as Loblolly Pine ( P. * The resins are obtained by tapping the trunk, or by destructive distillation of the wood. This is used by violinists on their bows and also in making sealing wax,...

* Wood - close-grained, heavy, hard, rather tough, strong, durable in contact with the soil. Used commercially like Q. It weighs 47lb per cubic foot. Alba, it is used for furniture, cabinet making, interior finishes, fence posts and fuel.

* One of the smaller firs, preferring cooler climates.

* Prefers a good deep fertile loam which can be on the stiff side. * A fairly fast-growing tree, it is cultivated for its timber in C. * Trees may live up to 500 years according to the USDA , and a living example of 326 years was noted in 2001 by Orwig...

* Wyman calls this "a fine, narrow tree"; 1/2" needles, light green; cones to 4"; conical in outline, with ascending branches, lacking the tiered quality of some spruces; native to Japan.

The species is named after Scottish botanist Robert Fortune, who discovered the tree in 1844. * Keteleeria fortunei is a coniferous evergreen tree native to Hong Kong and China. * An evergreen native to southeastern China with needlelike foliage; pyramidal...

* Antiphlogistic. It is used to make oil presses, spokes, tool handles etc. * This is an interesting small tree that can be grown as far north as zone 7. It has a tropical appearance with exfoliating bark reminiscent of Eucalyptus.

Best reserved for specimen use but also quite good in groupings of threes or fives. It likes deep rich soil and part shade, but is very adaptable. It forms a narrow column, has dark green foliage, 2" cones which are blue black when young.

Its early flowering nature gives it the name of the Hope for Spring Flower. The plant was discovered and introduced to the Western hemisphere more than 70 years ago. Fresh flower buds can be prepared by mixing with vinegar and ginger.

Rich-green foliage. The showy part of the floral display, however, is the white, pink or rose sepals that become petal-like and reminiscent of poinsettias. Large, coarse, rich-green leaves are concentrated at branch ends.

* A decidious Tree growing to 20 m (65ft 7in) at a fast rate. It is in flower in March, and the seeds ripen in June. It is commonly found in flood plains and/or swamps . * Betula nigra ( River Birch ; also occasionally called Water Birch ) is a species...

It is also a popular Christmas tree. * Douglas fir seeds are an extremely important food for small mammals. * It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings. * The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and...

It is a close relative of Pinus luchuensis of Japan and Pinus hwangshanensis of mainland China, sometimes considered as a subspecies of the former.Sometimes Pinus hwangshanensis from the mainland China are also referred to as P.