Biennial Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Sunnyvale

* A strong tincture of the fresh seed is used externally to kill lice and nits in the head and pubic hair.It is also effective against aphids and thrips. * The roots grow into the soil up to a depth of 50 centimetres (20 in), so the plant can survive...

* Native to Europe, naturalized in North America, tends to be very weedy. This plant is native to Europe, but is now widespread throughout most of the United States as a common weed.

A pleasant mild flavour, with a similar texture to the leaves, they make a pleasant and pretty addition to the salad bowl. * The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish.

A pleasant mild flavour, with a similar texture to the leaves, they make a pleasant and pretty addition to the salad bowl. * The flowers can be added to salads or used as a garnish.

* Celery is used around the world as a vegetable for the crisp petiole (leaf stalk). It is an aromatic bitter tonic herb that reduces blood pressure, relieves indigestion, stimulates the uterus and is anti-inflammatory.

The fresh leaves are highly nutritious and can be considered a natural vitamin and mineral supplement in their own right. * Parsley ( Petroselinum ) is a bright green biennial herb , often used as spice .

It is commonly cultivated in Japan where it gives its name to a particular construction technique, burdock piling. It is used to treat conditions caused by an 'overload' of toxins, such as throat and other infections, boils, rashes and other skin problems.

To produce seed for future years the bulbs need to be left in place and mulched heavily over winter and allowed to grow until the second summer when they will produce flowers and seed.

* Scabiosa ochroleuca, commonly called cream scabious, is a species of scabiosa with creamy yellow flower heads. It is native to Europe and western Asia.

Silymarin is a complex mixture of polyphenolic molecules, including seven closely related flavonolignans (silybin A, silybin B, isosilybin A, isosilybin B, silychristin, isosilychristin, silydianin) and one flavonoid (taxifolin).

It should be used with extreme caution and only under the supervision of a qualified practitioner since all parts of the plant are very poisonous and the difference between a medicinal dose and a toxic dose is very small.

It also contains antioxidants and both soluble and insoluble dietary fiber. * The parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is a root vegetable closely related to the carrot. It was introduced into the United States in the nineteenth century.

* Ginseng is characterized by the presence of ginsenosides. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Panax ginseng for lack of stamina.

It is best treated as a biennial in the garden. * A very ornamental plant, its flowers are very attractive to butterflies and moths. * Plants self-sow freely when grown in a suitable position.

* This is the main botanical ingredient in Absinthe, an alcoholic spirit that has a long and interesting history. The active ingredient Thujone is said to create a clear headed intoxication and is also reputed to be dangerous in excess.

* Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not . This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens.

It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants in the Nicotiana genus, and its leaves are commercially grown in many countries to be processed into tobacco.

* Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland habitats, as well as in fields, woodland margins,...

* The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter the genetic make-up of plants in an attempt to find new, improved varieties. * Contrary to what the name suggests, neither a crocus nor the source of saffron; foliage...

* Penthorum sedoides is 10 to 80 centimeters tall. * Penthorum sedoides is widely distributed in the United States and Canada. * Penthorum sedoides (known by the common name ditch stonecrop), is a perennial forb native to the eastern United States which...

* Beet seed can take two weeks to germinate so an old trick is to sow radish seeds in the same row. * The tops are loaded with vitamin A and the roots with Vitamin C. * Beets are low in calories (about 45 kcal per 100 g), have zero cholesterol and a minute...

* Anemone chinensis is a basionym of the currently known Pulsatilla chinensis and is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. * Bai Tou Weng is thought to clear toxicity and to lower fever.

About 35 kilos of oil can be extracted from 1 hectare of the plant (yielding 2,500 kilos of flowers and 25,000 kilos of herbage). * The French marigold ( Tagetes patula ) is a species in the daisy family ( Asteraceae ).

* Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest. When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root.

It is native from southern Europe east across southern Asia to Japan . Peruviana (Cape Gooseberry), easily identifiable by the larger, bright orange to red papery covering over its fruit, which resemble Chinese lanterns .

* Many 3" nodding blue, red, purple, or white nodding flowers on a branching stem; forms basal rosette of 20" leaves; monocarpic--blooms and dies; native to eastern Himalayas, western China.

* Modern research has shown that it contains the substance 'taxol' in its shoots and bark. * It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree, growing 10-15 m tall and with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter, rarely more.