Drought Tolerant Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Gresham

The fruit is up to 18mm long, it has a thin pulp and contains 1 - 3 rounded seeds. * The fruit can be used as a pickle like olives. * Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native...

It makes a valuable fuel and is occasionally used in the manufacture of small articles for domestic and industrial use. The bark is often mixed with alder and wild plum root barks when making the dye.

* Common in thickets and in thin secondary forests in lowlands and low mountains of central and southern Japan. The red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds.

Leaves usually solitary at axils on current year's growth, clustered on older branchlets; leaf blade linear-lanceolate, broadly lanceolate, or oblong-oblanceolate, 4–6.5 × 1–2.3 cm, glabrous on both surfaces, base attenuate, apex acute, rarely obtuse.

* Ruscus aculeatus is a low evergreen Eurasian shrub, with flat shoots known as cladodes that give the appearance of stiff, spine-tipped leaves. Suggested mechanisms to explain this include stimulation of venous alpha 1 and 2 adrenoreceptors and decreased...

The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood, but does not extend past 50°N (Soper and Heimburger...

* The bark is smooth and light grey, often becoming somewhat rougher with light tan fissures as the tree ages. * In flower from Jul to August, and the seeds ripen from Sep to November.

* Taraxacum officinale grows from generally unbranched taproots and produces one to more than ten stems that are typically 5 to 40 cm tall but sometimes up to 70 cm tall. This will make them less bitter, but they will also contain less vitamins and minerals.

Prick out the seedlings into individual pots as soon as they are large enough to handle and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter. It is the type genus of the family Myrtaceae.

* The flower heads are from ¾ to 3 inches (2 to 7.6 cm) wide with pale rose-purple or nearly white colored petals. Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens.

* An attractive plant with small pink flowers; can be grown as an annual in cold areas; native to the tropics. * Aqueous extracts of the roots of the plant have shown significant neutralizing effects in the lethality of the venom of the monocled cobra...

* Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late summer; in rich soil the plants grow too fast and need staking; may make a big clump of...

* In late summer, its legumes (seed pods) mature black, 2-3 cm long, 8 mm broad and 2-3 mm thick; they burst open, often with an audible crack, forcibly throwing seed from the parent plant.

The whole leaf can be used in weaving. It also has numerous sharp needle-like spines produced on the leaf stems; these protect the stem growing point from browsing animals. * A strong fibre obtained from the leaves is used for cordage and brushes.

Ponderosa, as detailed on that page. * Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine. * For now, this small-coned form of P.

* Taraxacum officinale grows from generally unbranched taproots and produces one to more than ten stems that are typically 5 to 40 cm tall but sometimes up to 70 cm tall. This will make them less bitter, but they will also contain less vitamins and minerals.

* All parts of the plant are rich in saponins - when crushed and mixed with water they produce a good lather which is an effective and gentle soap. The flowers are a very good source, when used as a body soap they leave behind a pleasant perfume on the...

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

It has very soft serrated leaves that can grow up to 4 inches wide. * Leonotis nepetifolia is known in Trinidad as shandilay and the leaves are brewed as a tea for fever, coughs, womb prolapse and malaria.

* A blue ink and a dye is obtained from the petals mixed with alum-water. Does best in sun, requires light, well drained soil, tolerates poor soil. The dried petals are used in pot-pourri in order to add colour.

* When the bark or leaves are cut they secrete a reddish resin, one of several sources of substances known as dragon's blood. * Being a monocotyledon, it does not display any annual or growth rings so the age of the tree can only be estimated by the number...

* One member of this species, known as Methuselah , is thought to be the oldest living non-clonal organism on Earth . The species is one of three closely related trees known as bristlecone pines and is sometimes known as the Intermountain or Western bristlecone...

* It has bright yellow latex, and though poisonous to grazing animals, is rarely eaten, but has been used medicinally by many people including those in its native area, the Natives of the western US and parts of Mexico.

The seed cones are globose to oblong, 15-33 mm long, with 6 or 8 (rarely 4 or 10) scales, green at first, maturing gray or gray-brown about 20–24 months after pollination. * Trees are very drought tolerant and are planted on slopes in its native range...

A yellow-orange dye is obtained from the flowers. The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs. * A low shrub with dark green evergreen leaves, shiny on the undersides; 2-3" flowers, bright yellow, throughout summer; easy to grow--tolerates dry soil;...

A yellow to gold dye is obtained from the leaves, buds and stems combined. An infusion of the plant repels insects, it is also disinfectant and so is used for washing walls, floors etc.

* The Lebanon Cedar is the national emblem of Lebanon, and is displayed on the Lebanese flag and coat of arms. The most prominent landscaping feature in London's historic Highgate Cemetery is its "Circle of Lebanon", where a Lebanon Cedar stands in the...