Acid Loving Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Nebraska

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 is sweet and juicy with a good flavour that has a hint of apple.

* Indigenous peoples of North America found the plant and its fruit very useful. * The bark or leaves of the plant were brewed for a bitter cold remedy, made as tea or smoked. The bright red, acidic berries were used extensively for food throughout the...

* The chestnut oak is readily identified by its massively-ridged dark gray-brown bark, the thickest of any eastern North American oak. * A 10-year-old sapling will stand about 5 m (16 ft) tall.

The leaves and stems of the huckleberry are resistant to low-intensity fires, and if burned away they will resprout vigorously from rhizomes buried under the soil. It occurs in both pine and spruce dominated forests and in open meadow ecosystems.

Very sweet and much appreciated, tasting somewhat like a hazel nut. Prefers a sheltered semi-shaded position and a light deep moist soil. * A very ornamental shrub. * Requires a lime-free soil.

* It is a good bird plant with 3/8" purple-black fruit that they love to eat. * Planting Density per Acre, Minimum 700 Planting Density per Acre, Maximum 1200 * It is native to eastern U.S. and much used in Europe.

This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height. The stems may be smooth or fuzzy, and are often glandular. * Arctostaphylos viscida is a species of manzanita known by the common names whiteleaf manzanita and sticky manzanita .

This shrub reaches between one and two meters in height. It can be dried, ground into a powder then used in making cakes etc. It is low to the ground with some of the lower branches rooting in the soil and others extending more outward than upward.

They are found in acidic bogs throughout the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere . * 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...

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. * The shiny, alternately arranged leaves are 2 to 3 centimeters long and about a...

* A lovely, useful plant with white or gray bark, shiny dark green leaves, translucent quarter-inch scarlet fruit in large quantities; takes well to pruning, adaptable regarding soil; "very picturesquefruit is truly beautiful" (Dirr); native from...

* Cyrilla racemiflora , the sole species in the genus Cyrilla , is a flowering plant in the family Cyrillaceae , native to warm temperate to tropical regions of the Americas , from the southeastern United States (coastal areas from southeastern Texas...

* This plant grows best in wooded or open areas with well-drained acidic soils. * In some areas it produces natural blueberry barrens, where it is practically the only species covering large areas.

* Quercus acutissima lives in deciduous forests at altitudes of up to 2,200 metres (7,200 ft) in South Asia and South East Asia. * The acorns are eaten by jays, pigeons, and squirrels .

* For those people with sensitive taste buds, this is a fruit that can be enjoyed when eaten in moderate quantities. 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.

This shrub reaches between one and two meters in height. It can be dried, ground into a powder then used in making cakes etc. It is low to the ground with some of the lower branches rooting in the soil and others extending more outward than upward.

It is valuable for checking soil erosion on watersheds. * The dried leaves have been used for smoking as an alternative to tobacco. One report says that it is unclear whether this was for medicinal purposes or for the intoxicated state it could produce.

* Sakaki is one of the common trees in the second layer of the evergreen oak forests. * Sakaki ( Cleyera japonica ) is a flowering evergreen tree or shrub native to warm areas of Japan , Korea and mainland China .

The glandular leaves are up to 8 centimeters long and are divided shallowly into a few dully toothed lobes. The inflorescence is a dense raceme of up to 20 flowers hanging pendent or held erect on the branches.

On moist, rich soils. * Loosely tufted perennial, short lived bunchgrass. Adapted to cool climates as a cool seasons turfgrass. Stays green a long time. A tall, tufted grass similar to tall fescue (Festuca arundinacea).

It is valuable for checking soil erosion on watersheds. * The dried leaves have been used for smoking as an alternative to tobacco. One report says that it is unclear whether this was for medicinal purposes or for the intoxicated state it could produce.

* The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop. * This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China.

* For those people with sensitive taste buds, this is a fruit that can be enjoyed when eaten in moderate quantities. 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.

It is one of about 150 species in the evergreen tree genus Persea. These trees are capable of producing fruit that is a small, blue or black drupe. Redbay is a perennial, with a non-herbaceous stem that is lignified.

It also occurs south into northern Baja California in Mexico . The dark-green leaves are usually small, 2.5-7 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, thick and often spiny-toothed, particularly on young trees.

As a popular ornamental used in landscaping its notable features include the red stems in fall (autumn) through late winter, the brightest winter bark of any cornus. It is a large suckering shrub that can be grown as a small tree.

* Cornus capitata is a species of dogwood known by the common names Bentham's cornel , Himalayan flowering dogwood , and evergreen dogwood . The fruit can also be used in preserves.