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Cedar-of-Goa, Mexican White Cedar, Mexican Cypress Cupressus lusitanica     - Cupressus lindleyi
Price : CALL

* Often has drooping branchlets; foliage green; half-inch cones; native to Mexico and Central America. It has also been introduced to Belize , Costa Rica and Nicaragua , growing at 1200–3000 m altitude.
  • Genus: Cupressus
  • Species: lusitanica
  • Botanical Name: Cupressus lusitanica
  • Common Name: Cedar-of-Goa, Mexican White Cedar, Mexican Cypress
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Washoe Pine Pinus washoensis
Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

* Pinus washoensis may be synonymous with P. Ponderosa subsp. * 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.
  • Botanical Name: Pinus washoensis
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
  • Height: 180 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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Piute Cypress Cupressus nevadensis
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

The foliage grows in sparse, very fragrant, sprays varying from dull gray-green to glaucous blue-green in color. Polkinghorn and to visit the grove she described (Abrams 1919). * This cypress was discovered in 1907 by Mrs.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 21
  • Seeds Per Pound: 38,590
  • Common Name: Piute Cypress
  • Purity: 99%
  • Collection Locale: CA S. Sierras 3600'
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
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Holly-leaved Mirabelia, Wedge-leaved Mirabelia Mirbelia dilatata
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

It is endemic to Australia, occurring in every mainland state except South Australia. * Mirbelia is a plant genus belonging to the Fabaceae family.
  • Family: Leguminosae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 326,880
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Quantity: 0.02 lb
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 350
  • Common Name: Holly-leaved Mirabelia, Wedge-leaved Mirabelia
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Common Rue Ruta graveolens
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens , especially because of its bluish leaves, and also sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions. The plant contains flavonoids (notably rutin) that reduce capillary fragility, which...
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Seeds Per Pound: 238,947
  • Quantity: 2.32 lb
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 256
  • Common Name: Common Rue
  • Germination: 98%
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Arizona White Oak Quercus arizonica
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* It usually occurs as a native shrub or a medium sized tree. * One of the largest southwestern oaks, this handsome tree reaches its greatest size in canyons and other moist sites.
  • Species: arizonica
  • Family: Fagaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Common Name: Arizona White Oak
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Forget-Me-not, Chinese Hound\'s Tongue Cynoglossum amabile   Firmament
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* Annual or biennial; parent is dwarfish, dark blue flowers throughout summer; does well in hot, dry sun. This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens. * Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese...
  • Species: amabile
  • Quantity: 5.7 lb
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Genus: Cynoglossum
  • Botanical Name: Cynoglossum amabile Firmament
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Common Rue Ruta graveolens
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant in gardens , especially because of its bluish leaves, and also sometimes for its tolerance of hot and dry soil conditions. The plant contains flavonoids (notably rutin) that reduce capillary fragility, which...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Botanical Name: Ruta graveolens
  • Height: 18-24 inches
  • Family: Rutaceae
  • Common Name: Common Rue
  • Germination: 98%
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Myrtle Oak Quercus myrtifolia
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Quercus myrtifolia is an evergreen tree that can reach 12 meters (40 feet) tall or shrub in drier sites. * Small oak accent for dry sunny landscape areas. Foliage is considered to be evergreen (leaves persist on the tree until new growth commences in...
  • Botanical Name: Quercus myrtifolia
  • Height: 15-20 feet
  • Genus: Quercus
  • Common Name: Myrtle Oak
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Chinese Honeylocust, Soap Bean, Soap Pod Gleditsia sinensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Gleditsia sinensis has been used in China for at least 2000 years as a detergent. The thorns of Gleditsia sinensis LAM. * It is one of the alleged "50 fundamental herbs" used in traditional Chinese medicine.
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination: 98%
  • Common Name: Chinese Honeylocust, Soap Bean, Soap Pod
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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Mourning Cypress Chamaecyparis funebris
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Cupressus funebris is a medium-sized coniferous tree growing to 20-35 m tall, with a trunk up to 2 m diameter. * Cones can remain closed on the tree for a number of years, opening after the heat of a forest fire to scatter their seeds which then germinate...
  • Common Name: Mourning Cypress
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 54
  • Germination: 83%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Quantity: 0.05 lb
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Pampas Grass, Uruguayan Pampas Grass Cortaderia selloana
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

It also seeds prolifically, with each plant able to produce over one million seeds during its lifetime. The most commonly repeated version states that in the UK and Ireland a patch of pampas grass is planted somewhere in the front garden to act as a signal...
  • Purity: 99%
  • Collection Locale: New Zealand
  • Common Name: Pampas Grass, Uruguayan Pampas Grass
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Germination: 83%
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Western Yellow Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Pinus ponderosa scopulorum
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Branches usually drooping, smaller in all its parts, of more columnar habit. * Ponderosa pine was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes, who valued it especially for its antiseptic and vulnerary properties, using it to...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Height: 120 feet
  • Subspecies: scopulorum
  • Common Name: Western Yellow Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine
  • Germination: 71%
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Sonoran Scrub Oak Quercus turbinella
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It is most common in chaparral habitat in central Arizona , through the transition zone of the Mogollon Rim – White Mountains , but also southeast Arizona in the Madrean Sky Island mountain ranges of sky islands .
  • Species: turbinella
  • Family: Fagaceae
  • Botanical Name: Quercus turbinella
  • Common Name: Sonoran Scrub Oak
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Blue Spruce Picea pungens  glauca  NM Santa Fe
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range. * This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds.
  • Variety: glauca
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Seeds Per Pound: 97,610
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Quantity: 3.23 lb
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Scorpion Senna Hippocrepis emerus     - Coronilla emerus
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Hippocrepis emerus reaches on average 50–150 centimetres (20–59 in) of height, with a maximum of 200 centimetres (79 in). They can be found at an altitude of 0–1,850 metres (0–6,070 ft).
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Germination: 98%
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Collection Locale: Italy
  • Genus: Hippocrepis
  • Quantity: 0.22 lb
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Rose Moss Portulaca grandiflora
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is a small, but fast-growing annual plant growing to 30 cm tall, though usually less. It has many common names, including rose moss, eleven o'clock, Mexican rose, moss rose, sun rose, rock rose, and moss-rose purslane.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 4,083,970
  • Genus: Portulaca
  • Common Name: Rose Moss
  • Quantity: 0.41 lb
  • Crop Year: 2012
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Pink Pampas Grass Cortaderia selloana   Rosea
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* Noxious weed in California. * Parent has an abundance of pinkish plumes. * This is an outstanding ornamental that can be used as an effective screen or accent plant.
  • Height: 5-7 feet
  • Cultivar: Rosea
  • Species: selloana
  • Botanical Name: Cortaderia selloana Rosea
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
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Oleander Nerium oleander     - Nerium indicum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Odorum , but the character is not constant and it is no longer regarded as a separate taxon. The fruit is a long narrow capsule 5–23 cm (2.0–9.1 in) long, which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds .In the past, scented plants were...
  • Germination: 50%
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Common Name: Oleander
  • Quantity: 4.02 lb
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Genus: Nerium
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Washoe Pine Pinus washoensis
Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

* Pinus washoensis may be synonymous with P. Ponderosa subsp. * 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.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Germination: 71%
  • Purity: 99%
  • Family: Pinaceae
California
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Niagara Big Bluestem Andropogon gerardii   Niagara
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) . * Big bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and moisture. * Seed germination appears to be dependent on about a 2-week period of moistened seed at a time...
  • Common Name: Niagara Big Bluestem
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 4-6 feet
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Cultivar: Niagara
  • Germination: 91%
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Oriental Hornbeam Carpinus orientalis
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

* In recent years, this species has been extensively used in Bonsai. * Carpinus orientalis (Oriental Hornbeam) is a hornbeam native from southeastern Europe to northern Iran and occurs usually on hot dry sites at lower altitudes in comparison to the European...
  • Species: orientalis
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 30 feet
  • Family: BETULACEAE
  • Quantity: 0.15 lb
  • Genus: Carpinus
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Columbine, Granny\'s Bonnet Aquilegia oxysepala
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

(Gansu, Guizhou, Hebei, Hubei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Mong) all in China. * Native to forest margins, grassy slopes; 400--2700 m.
  • Family: RANUNCULACEAE
  • Germination: 91%
  • Genus: Aquilegia
  • Species: oxysepala
  • Botanical Name: Aquilegia oxysepala
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
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Statice, Wavyleaf Sea Lavender Limonium sinuatum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Excellent as a fresh cut flower and for dried arrangements. * Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status) is noted for producing clusters of papery, funnel-shaped flowers in summer.
  • Height: 18 inches
  • Genus: Limonium
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Family: Plumbaginaceae
  • Botanical Name: Limonium sinuatum
  • Common Name: Statice, Wavyleaf Sea Lavender
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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...
  • Germination: 91%
  • Crop Year: 1997
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 104
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Genus: Fontanesia
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Jack Tree Sinojackia rehderiana
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant species is endemic to Southeast China in forest thicket habitats at 500–800 metres (1,600–2,600 ft) of elevation. Populations are found in northern Guangdong, southern Hunan, and Jiangxi provinces.
  • Collection Locale: Georgia
  • Height: 15-20ft
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 13
  • Quantity: 0.26 lb
  • Purity: 98%
  • Family: Styracaceae
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Montpellier Maple ACER monspessulanum
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is a medium-sized deciduous tree or densely-branched shrub that grows to a height of 10-15 m Montpellier Maple is a rare maple variety popular with bonsai enthusiasts for its distinctive appearance.
  • Common Name: Montpellier Maple
  • Quantity: 3.59 lb
  • Purity: 95%
  • Collection Locale: Slovenia
  • Species: monspessulanum
  • Height: 30-50 feet
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