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Slash Pine Pinus elliottii
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Slash Pine is named after the "slashes" – swampy ground overgrown with trees and bushes – that constitute its habitat. * Deep green needles, 5"+; 6" cones; a source of pulp, timber, rosin, and turpentine; native to the southeast U.S.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination: 98%
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Species: elliottii
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Caspian Locust, Persian Honey Locust Gleditsia caspia     - Gleditsia caspica
Price : CALL

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby.
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 10
  • Purity: 99%
  • Genus: Gleditsia
  • Germination: 98%
  • Height: 30-35 feet
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Des Moines
Tamarugo Prosopis tamarugo
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

This bushy tree apparently grows without the benefit of rainfall, and obtains some water from dew . The trees grow on saline soils that do not allow for other trees. * Prosopis tamarugo , commonly known as the Tamarugo , is a species of flowering tree...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 53
  • Botanical Name: Prosopis tamarugo
  • Lot#: 9801
  • Quantity: 0.03 lb
  • Germination: 91%
  • Family: Fabaceae
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Spanish Chestnut, European Chestnut Castanea sativa
Price : CALL

* This tree responds very well to coppicing, which is still practised in Britain, and produces a good crop of tannin-rich wood every 12 to 30 years, depending on intended use and local growth rate.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Genus: Castanea
  • Species: sativa
  • Botanical Name: Castanea sativa
Iowa
Des Moines
Siberian Statice Limonium gmelinii
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

They keep their blue color well after drying. * It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions. * This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 800,000
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Common Name: Siberian Statice
  • Genus: Limonium
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Botanical Name: Limonium gmelinii
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Cedar-of-Goa, Mexican White Cedar, Mexican Cypress Cupressus lusitanica     - Cupressus lindleyi
Price : CALL

It has also been introduced to Belize , Costa Rica and Nicaragua , growing at 1200–3000 m altitude. * Often has drooping branchlets; foliage green; half-inch cones; native to Mexico and Central America.
  • Botanical Name: Cupressus lusitanica
  • Family: Cupressaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Genus: Cupressus
Iowa
Des Moines
Cedar Of Lebanon, Lebanon Cedar Cedrus libani
Price : CALL

* The Lebanon Cedar is widely planted as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, often being planted in landscape avenues, and as focal point trees in large landscapes. * A majestic sturdy tree when mature, flat topped and wide spreading with a...
  • Species: libani
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 12
  • Botanical Name: Cedrus libani
  • Seeds Per Pound: 6,810
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Family: Pinaceae
Iowa
Des Moines
Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet  Fontanesia fortunei     - Fontanesia phillyreoides fortunei
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...
  • Common Name: Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet
  • Species: fortunei
  • Quantity: 0.43 lb
  • Botanical Name: Fontanesia fortunei
  • Crop Year: 1997
  • Purity: 96%
Iowa
Des Moines
Lavafield Jackbean, Awikiwiki Canavalia pubescens
Prices start at : 19.95 USD / 1 packet

* Its natural habitats are dry forests and low shrublands. It is threatened by habitat destruction, mainly due to introduced grazing mammals. * Canavalia pubescens, commonly known as ʻawikiwiki or Lavafield Jack-bean, is a species of flowering plant...
  • Height: 20-30 feet
  • Species: pubescens
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Quantity: 0.01 lb
  • Common Name: Lavafield Jackbean, Awikiwiki
  • Botanical Name: Canavalia pubescens
Iowa
Des Moines
Choctawhatchee Sand Pine, Sand Pine Pinus clausa    Choctawhatchee
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is largely confined to very infertile , excessively well-drained, sandy habitats where competition from larger-growing species is minimized by the harsh growing conditions, as in the Florida scrub .
  • Seeds Per Pound: 47,113
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Purity: 99%
  • Location: Choctawhatchee
  • Botanical Name: Pinus clausa Choctawhatchee
  • Germination: 98%
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Blue Ash Fraxinus quadrangulata
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

Isolated populations exist in Alabama, Southern Ontario, and small sections of the Appalachian Mountains. * A blue dye is obtained from the inner bark. * The "blue" refers to a substance secreted by the inner bark when exposed to air, not to the leaves,...
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • Common Name: Blue Ash
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Collection Locale: Louisisna
  • Quantity: 0.88 lb
  • Genus: Fraxinus
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Scorpion Senna Hippocrepis emerus     - Coronilla emerus
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

The plant has a lignified stem with green branches bearing five to nine leaflets. * These shrubs are usually found in wooded and bushy areas, on sunny, warm and dry slopes and around forest edges.
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination: 98%
  • Height: 5-6 feet
  • Botanical Name: Hippocrepis emerus
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Matucana Peruvian Torch Cactus, Matucana Peruvian Torch Trichocereus peruvianus  Matucana
Prices start at : 12.95 USD / 1 packet

Besides mescaline, it also contains varying phenethylamines and other substances in minimal proportions * Today it is still used by Curanderos (medicine men) of northern Peru. * The human use of the cactus dates back thousands of years to the northern...
  • Family: Cactaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 30
  • Botanical Name: Trichocereus peruvianus Matucana
  • Common Name: Matucana Peruvian Torch Cactus, Matucana Peruvian Torch
  • Variety: Matucana
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
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Cloeziana Gum, Queensland Messmate, Gympie Messmate, Yellow Messmate, Dead Finish Eucalyptus cloeziana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The bark is soft, flaky, tessellated, light brown or yellow-brown, where smooth, greyish white or yellowish above. * The tree reaches its best development in the Gympie region, where some magnificent forest trees attain heights near 60 metres.
  • Germination: 80%
  • Collection Locale: Guatemala
  • Quantity: 0.85 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Species: cloeziana
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Mountain Mahogany, Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany Cercocarpus montanus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Montanus often remains under 1 metre (3.3 ft) in height because of browsing by elk and deer, but can reach 20 feet (6.1 m). A red to brown dye can be obtained from the root bark. It has thin and smooth bark.
  • Common Name: Mountain Mahogany, Alderleaf Mountain Mahogany
  • Genus: Cercocarpus
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 35,865
  • Collection Locale: ID
  • Species: montanus
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Japanese Black Pine Pinus thunbergii    China - Pinus thunbergiana    China
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Thick, slightly twisted bright green 3-4 1/2" needles. * It is one of the classic bonsai subjects. * Extremely salt tolerant, good for seaside planting and holding beach sand in place.
  • Height: 120 feet
  • Purity: 99%
  • Location: China
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
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Pistachio, Pistachio Nut Pistacia vera
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

Their nuts are much smaller, have a strong flavor of turpentine , and have a shell that is not hard. Pistacia vera often is confused with other species in the genus Pistacia that are also known as pistachio.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 908
  • Collection Locale: India
  • Botanical Name: Pistacia vera
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Pistachio, Pistachio Nut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
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Gas Plant, Dittany, Gasplant, Burningbush Dictamnus albus     - Dictamnus fraxinella
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* This essential oil is emitted from the plant in hot weather and, on a still day, can be ignited and will burn for a second or two without harming the plant, thus giving the plant its common name.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 50
  • Quantity: 0.92 lb
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Family: Rutaceae
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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Colorado Columbine, Colorado Blue Columbine, Rocky Mountain Columbine Aquilegia caerulea     - Aquilegia coerulea
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado. * It is also an ornamental plant in gardens, with numerous cultivars selected for different flower colors. * Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana...
  • Family: RANUNCULACEAE
  • Common Name: Colorado Columbine, Colorado Blue Columbine, Rocky Mountain Columbine
  • Botanical Name: Aquilegia caerulea
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Quantity: 2.1 lb
  • Lot#: 090160
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Ponderosa Pine, Southwestern Ponderosa Pine, Western Yellow Pine Pinus ponderosa  brachyptera
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Ponderosa subsp. The 'South Rockies' group includes populations formerly assigned to Pinus brachyptera Engelmann (1848) from Arizona and New Mexico. * An infusion of the dried buds has been used as an eye wash.
  • Variety: brachyptera
  • Quantity: 1.18 lb
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 10,896
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 41
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Netleaf Hackberry, Netleaf Sugar Hackberry, Texas Sugarberry, Sugar Hackberry Celtis laevigata  reticulata   - Celtis reticulata
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The leaves are eaten by a number of insects, particularly certain moth caterpillars. * Celtis reticulata is cultivated by plant nurseries and available as an ornamental plant for: native plant, drought tolerant, natural landscape, and habitat gardens;...
  • Lot#: 100418
  • Quantity: 1.74 lb
  • Purity: 99%
  • Variety: reticulata
  • Genus: Celtis
  • Species: laevigata
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Blue Ash Fraxinus quadrangulata
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

Isolated populations exist in Alabama, Southern Ontario, and small sections of the Appalachian Mountains. * A blue dye is obtained from the inner bark. * The "blue" refers to a substance secreted by the inner bark when exposed to air, not to the leaves,...
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Germination: 91%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 25
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • Purity: 99%
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Choctawhatchee Sand Pine, Sand Pine Pinus clausa    Choctawhatchee
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is largely confined to very infertile , excessively well-drained, sandy habitats where competition from larger-growing species is minimized by the harsh growing conditions, as in the Florida scrub .
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 20
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Germination: 98%
  • Species: clausa
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Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, Intermountain Bristlecone Pine, Western Bristlecone Pine, Ancient Bristlecone Pine, Methuselah Pine Pinus longaeva     - Pinus aristata longaeva   , Pinus aristata  longaeva
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

It is a very hard to secure item. The species is one of three closely related trees known as bristlecone pines and is sometimes known as the Intermountain or Western bristlecone pine .
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Botanical Name: Pinus longaeva
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Common Name: Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, Intermountain Bristlecone Pine, Western Bristlecone Pine, Ancient Bristlecone Pine, Methuselah Pine
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 21
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Jojoba, Pignut, Goat Nut, Deer Nut, Wild Hazel, Quinine Nut, Coffeeberry, Grey Box Bush Simmondsia chinensis
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

The nuts are eaten by squirrels , rabbits , other rodents , and larger birds. Only Bailey's Pocket Mouse , however, is known to be able to digest the wax found inside the jojoba nut.
  • Quantity: 22.97 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 685
  • Genus: Simmondsia
  • Collection Locale: Arizonia
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Crop Year: 2018
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Gasplant, Gas Plant, Dittany Dictamnus albus  caucasicus
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* A form with reddish-purple flowers, otherwise similar to the species, which see.
  • Common Name: Gasplant, Gas Plant, Dittany
  • Collection Locale: Poland
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Germination: 98%
  • Quantity: 0.02 lb
  • Botanical Name: Dictamnus albus caucasicus
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Cuyamaca Cypress Cupressus arizonica  stephensonii   - Cupressus stephensonii
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is an IUCN Red List Critically endangered species, and a California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants listed Seriously endangered species. * The Cuyamaca Cypress exists only in the headwaters area of King Creek in the Cuyamaca...
  • Germination: 28%
  • Purity: 99%
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Family: Cupressaceae
  • Genus: Cupressus
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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