Acid Loving Plant Specimen Tree For Sale In Philadelphia

* The flesh is sweet and very tart. * Besides fresh consumption, the fruits may be dried, canned, soaked in baijiu (Chinese liquor), or fermented into alcoholic beverages. * An extract from fruit called myricerone blocks a receptor for the peptide, endothelin,...

But it is thinly distributed over much of its native range, and is becoming rare in many areas. * Halesia tetraptera, commonly known as the common silverbell is a species in the family Styracaceae, native to the southeastern United States.

* Leaves opening coppery-red , turning to soft green in summer and then to shades of red, orange and yellow in autumn. * It is a form of serviceberry shrub. * It is in flower in April, and the seeds ripen from June to July.

* It is one of the heaviest woods in North America. * The trees have an extensive root system and can be planted on banks etc for erosion control. * Native to eastern North America from the Gulf Coast north to Thunder Bay in Ontario and Lake St. John...

* The flesh is sweet and very tart. * Besides fresh consumption, the fruits may be dried, canned, soaked in baijiu (Chinese liquor), or fermented into alcoholic beverages. * An extract from fruit called myricerone blocks a receptor for the peptide, endothelin,...

* The tree is regarded as attractive because of its wide spreading shelving branches and flat-topped head, and is often used in ornamental plantings. * An easily grown plant, it succeeds in any soil of good or moderate fertility, ranging from acid to...

Quinquepeta; large spreading shrub or small tree; flowers of plants from seed, 5-10", may be white, pink, or purplish, usually darker on the outside, whitish inside; flowers before leafing out, and sporadically thereafter--but flowers sometimes damaged...

* Leaves shiny dark green, coloring to an often incandescent red, orange, and yellow in fall; often shrubby; a witch-hazel relative; tiny flowers with red anthers in early spring; gray bark flakes off on mature trees to reveal greens, whites, and browns;...

* White oak grows over much of eastern North America and is an important hardwood timber tree. * Normally not a very tall tree, typically 65–85 feet (19.5-25.5 m) tall at maturity, it nonetheless becomes quite massive and its lower branches are apt...

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

Tallowwood is drought and frost tender. It is one of the species whose leaves are used for food by Koalas. It has many commercial uses. * Tallowwood ( Eucalyptus microcorys ) is a native Eucalypt species common in New South Wales and Queensland , Australia...

* 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.

May be grown as a large, multi-stemmed shrub or trained as single trunk tree. In the wild, Carolina silverbell typically does not exceed 35' in height (though specimens have been found in the 80-100' range), and is frequently shrubby in habit.

This species is excellent when used in groupings, in groves, or even as a single specimen. It has a golden-yellow fall color; likes cool areas and moist acid soils. The sap usually runs freely, but the sugar content is lower than in the sugar maples.

The wood is strongly resistant to rot, is not eaten by termites, and is easily worked. * An evergreen native to China, where it is a widely used timber tree; the wood resists rot; of pyramidal habit with slightly pendulous branches; bark brown, peeling...

* A 10-year-old sapling will stand about 5 m (16 ft) tall. It weighs 47lb per cubic foot. Used commercially like Q. * The chestnut oak is readily identified by its massively-ridged dark gray-brown bark, the thickest of any eastern North American oak.

* Intermediate between the Chestnut Oak and the White Oak . * The swamp white oak is a medium-sized tree of America's north central and northeastern mixed forests. * Wildlife such as deer, ducks, and geese, as well as other animals are attracted to this...

It is also a popular Christmas tree. * The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas. Mice, voles, shrews, and chipmunks consumed an estimated 65 percent of a Douglas fir seed crop...

* Planting Density per Acre, Minimum 700 Planting Density per Acre, Maximum 1200 * The fruit has a sweet flavor. * The bark can be made into a herbal medicine for expectant mothers.

* Maple makes a handsome street tree in SE China. * The trees are evergreen, 12 to 15 m tall. * Bark smooth to wrinkled.

It was once classified as Laurocerasus caroliniana. * Prunus caroliniana, known as the Carolina Cherry Laurel, with syns. Birds consume the dry fruit. Cherry Laurel, Carolina Cherry, Laurelcherry or Wild Mock Orange, is a flowering tree native to the...

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

Within its natural area, it grows under extremely variable rainfall regimes, from less than 300 mm to several thousands, mostly due to differences in mist-capturing by the foliage.

* This species is the biggest (but not the tallest) tree in the world and can weigh up to 2000 tonnes. * An easily cultivated, fast-growing tree, it prefers a deep rich soil and a sunny sheltered position.

Officinalis differs very little from Magnolia obovata; the only difference that is consistently observed between the two being that the fruit aggregate of M. Officinalis has a rounded base, while that of M.

* Creamy white flowers, to 10" wide, very fragrant; leaves, to 2' long, grow in clusters at the branch tips--hence the common name. * Magnolia tripetala , commonly called Umbrella magnolia or simply Umbrella-tree , is a deciduous tree native to the southeastern...

* Gutta-percha, known as Du Zhong in China, is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs. Much interest has been aroused by Du Zhong's ability to reduce high blood pressure.