Crop Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Visalia

The young shoots in spring can be cut down to the root and boiled and buttered. The medicinal parts of the plant are the ripe seeds. The extract consists of about 65–80% silymarin (a flavonolignan complex) and 20–35% fatty acids, including linoleic...

* Woodland strawberry fruit is strongly flavored, and is still collected and grown for domestic use and on a small scale commercially for the use of gourmets and as an ingredient for commercial jam, sauces, liqueurs, cosmetics and alternative medicine.

* The leaves are available from early spring until late in the autumn. * The leaves have a mild flavour, somewhat like a cross between garlic and chives, they are delicious in salads.

The gelled seeds can also be prepared as a gruel or pudding. The sprouted seeds are eaten in salads, sandwiches, soups, stews etc. Due to their mucilaginous property they are often sprouted on clay or other porous materials.

Sweet and pleasantly flavoured. In Peru, maca is prepared and consumed in various ways, although traditionally it always is cooked. After 260 to 280 days, it is formed to the harvestable hypocotyl.

* This plant is an anti-infective herb that lowers fevers and reduces pain. * This species of bugbane is an upright perennial that features ferny, deeply-cut, deep green, 2-3 ternate leaves on branched stems which form a foliage clump typically growing...

Foetida heave sparse to dense glandular stems. With long flattened ± patent scales. Actaea frigida Wall. The eastern border of the species range is not quite clear, as the correlation between morphological characters and chromosome numbers are still...

This will force the plant to produce side branches that will produce fruit much sooner and more flowers and more fruits. The fresh fruit has a light green smooth skin and a white flesh.

* In massage therapy, the essential oil of bay laurel is reputed to alleviate arthritis and rheumatism, while in aromatherapy, it is used to treat earaches and high blood pressure.

* 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. * The name "naked lady" comes from the fact that the flowers emerge from the ground long...

* Native to India , Myanmar , Bangladesh , Sri Lanka , Malaysia and Pakistan , growing in tropical and semi-tropical regions. * In East Africa it is also known as Muarubaini ( Swahili ), which means the tree of the 40 , as it is said to treat 40 different...

It is an extremely useful medicine for those with weak and under-active digestion. Vincent van Gogh and Ernest Hemingway were Absinthe drinkers. A warm compress has been used to ease sprains and strained muscles.

* The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The leaves are used as an insect repellent.

* Plants form impenetrably dense clumps and when planted close together in drifts make an excellent ground cover. If soil fertility is low, a large portion of the total production occurs in the spring, but if the soil is highly fertile, production is...

* A perennial herb with 8" leaves covered with prickly hairs; flowers to 1/2", yellowish white, pink, or purplish, in summer, in nodding clusters; rather coarse; likes rich, moist, limestone soils; native to Europe, where it is used medicinally; a weed...

* Grown as a garden flower due to its unique flower shape. Care should be taken however, because all parts of the plant are poisonous.

* Originally from southern Mexico (particularly Chiapas and Veracruz), Central America, and northern South America, the papaya is now cultivated in most tropical countries. All parts of the plant contain latex in articulated laticifers.

* Annona muricata is tolerant of poor soil and prefers lowland areas between the altitudes of 0 metres (0 ft) to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft). * An extract from the leaves has been reportedly successful in lowering elevated blood pressure by its decreasing...

* It has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to promote health, general body vigour and also to prolong life. * Ginseng has a history of herbal use going back over 5,000 years.

Lupulus contains myrcene, humulene, xanthohumol, myrcenol, linalool, tannins, and resin. * The dried flowering heads of female plants are used as a flavouring and preservative in beer.

* The young leaves and flower buds can be eaten raw or cooked. A cucumber flavour they can be added to salads or used as a potherb. The fresh or dried leaves are used as a tea substitute.

* A variable species found in dry soil and full sun from Europe to China; stems to 3' with purple bracts and very attractive purple, pink, or white flowers in July and August; likes calcaric soils; spreads via suckers; aromatic leaves; widely used in...

* Nice shiny dark green leaves to 3"; large shrub, small tree; quarter-inch bright red fruit in fall; best of the hardy evergreen hollies, Dirr says; may not do well in hot regions; native to Japan and China.

Bark infusion is used as a gargle for sore throat, to induce circulation, to check diarrhea, and for eye drops. Stem bark shows potential antitumor activity. Bark used to relieve indigestion and as a tonic and alterative.

It has a wide range of medicinal applications. * It is believed fenugreek was brought into cultivation in the Near East. * One of its constituent alkaloids, called 'trigonelline', has shown potential for use in cancer therapy.

* All parts of the plant contain nicotine, this has been extracted and used as an insecticide. The dried leaves can also be used, they remain effective for 6 months after drying. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of...

* American president Thomas Jefferson cultivated mache at his home, Monticello, in Virginia in the early 1800s. * Corn Salad is a gourmet green that has been used in Europe for centuries.