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It is also a popular Christmas tree. * The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas. * It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings.

Tolerates heavy clay soils. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in a cold frame for at least their first winter. * The stem bark is made into a lotion for cancer.

* Inner bark - raw or dried, ground into a powder and then used as a thickening in soups etc or mixed with cereals when making bread. These tips are also an ingredient of 'spruce beer'

N and W Guangdong, NE and SE Guangxi, Guizhou, S and W Hunan, S Jiangxi, SE Yunnan [N Vietnam]. * This species is grown as an ornamental and used for timber. * Native to evergreen broad-leaved forests; 500-1700 m.

* This beautiful tropical flowering tree from the Carribean will do well in protected locations in zone 9 and anywhere in zones 10 and 11.

* Trees to 25 m tall; bark dark brown, smooth. * The wood is hard, close grained, and fine textured, and is used for construction and making agricultural tools and furniture. * Broad-leaved forests on sunny mountain slopes; 200-2900 m.

* The flowers are large, 15-25 cm diameter, with six to nine creamy-white petals and a large red style, which later develops into a red fruit 10 cm long, containing several red seeds .

It is used to make oil presses, spokes, tool handles etc. * This is an interesting small tree that can be grown as far north as zone 7. In forests or among bushes on mountain slope, ravines by streams and woodland slopes at elevations of 800 - 1400 metres.

The spongy reddish-brown bark is ridged and furrowed and it is native to the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. It is also a very long-lived tree in the wild, specimens have been found that are 3500 years old.

* Bark smooth, grey, finely flaky on young trees, becoming grey-brown, scaly, and fissured on old trees * Branchlets smooth, shallowly grooved, slightly pubescent in the grooves; reddish brown, purplish or 'mahogany'.

* Trees to 25 m tall; bark dark brown, smooth. * The wood is hard, close grained, and fine textured, and is used for construction and making agricultural tools and furniture. * Broad-leaved forests on sunny mountain slopes; 200-2900 m.

* Patula Pine , Pinus patula (Mexican weeping pine, pino lloron in Spanish)( patula Latin = spreading ) is a tree native to Mexico . It grows from 24° to 18° North latitude and 1800 to 2700 m above sea level.

* The fruit is high in saponins and is used as a soap for washing fabrics and thebody. It is used for cabinet making. * Chinese relative of G. It is in flower in April, and the seeds ripen in October.

Tolerates heavy clay soils. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in a cold frame for at least their first winter. * The stem bark is made into a lotion for cancer.

* Conical when young, branches broadening with age to become a picturesque wide pyramid with age; slow growing; green or blue-green needles, 1 1/2"; "a choice, extremely graceful small conifer...a perfect tree for the small place...artistic growth habit"...

* Plants can fruit in 5 - 7 years from seed and yields from mature trees are around 25 - 60 kilos per tree. * The nuts also provide a significant food source for wildlife. The skin (or pellicle) of the seed is easily peeled.

* Calocedrus decurrens ( California Incense-cedar ; syn. The bark has been made into baskets. * The boughs and twigs have been used to make brooms. The roots have been used as overlay twine warps and overlay twine weft bases in making baskets.

It can also be used as a tall hedge. * First described in the genus Cupressus as Cupressus nootkatensis in 1824, it was transferred to Chamaecyparis in 1841 on the basis of its foliage being in flattened sprays, as in other Chamaecyparis, but unlike most...

It grows between 1300-3250 m. * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico. * Smooth-bark Mexican Pine ( Pinus pseudostrobus ), ( Chamite and Pacingo ) distinctive names in Spanish, tree endemic to Mexico , 8 to 25 m tall, dense and round top, the bark...

* it is a very beneficial treatment for a variety of skin complaints, wounds, sores, burns, boils etc and is used in the form of liniment plasters, poultices, herbal steam baths and inhalers.

These trees will not prove as winter hardy as the Colorado sources, but are highly recommended in zones 6 and 7. Thus it can be used for making tubs for storing food items. * It is popular as an ornamental landscaping tree and as a Christmas Tree.

* An attractive shrub or small tree with a short trunk; 2" needles; contorted branches reaching nearly to the ground; of broadly conical form; dark green, much planted in Europe; "an excellent garden tree" (Wyman); native to coastal North America from...

* The Limber Pine ( Pinus flexilis ; family Pinaceae ) is a species of pine tree that occurs in the mountains of the Western United States and Canada , specifically the subalpine areas of the Rocky Mountains from southwest Alberta south to the Mexican...

* It is a medium-sized evergreen coniferous tree growing to 30 m tall with a trunk up to 1.2 m diameter and a narrow conic to columnar crown. * Twigs slender, firm, yellowish gray-brown turning gray, ridged and grooved with minute pubescence in the grooves,...

It is native to central China where its bark is used in a tonic. It is considered to be an excellent tonic for the kidneys and liver, and is thought to act specifically on the lower part of the body.

* Cupressus goveniana is a species of cypress endemic to coastal California in the United States , where it is found in small, scattered populations, not in large forests. * Rough gray bark, bright green leaves; native to Monterey County, California

* This is one of the apple varieties thta does bext under low chill conditions. * Used as a rootstock for the cultivated apples. * The fruit can be eaten raw, cooked in pies, cakes etc or fermented into cider.