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* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. * The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

Virginiana, its magnificent, stately form has endeared it to generations of residents and it remains popular to this day. Virginiana, which it is sometimes considered a variety of.

* A semi-double form of the species said to come more or less true from seed; yellow flowers; native to U.S. east It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in...

* Pinus engelmannii, commonly known as the Apache pine, is a tree of Northern Mexico, in the Sierra Madre Occidental with its range extending a short distance into the United States in southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona.

Ponderosa pine forests are found at low elevations offering year-round recreation, and they frequently border forest highways where esthetic values are high. Ponderosa subsp. In climax forests, ponderosa pine stands often contain many small, even-aged...

Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47. The leaves are long-stalked and uniquely divided into two leaflets about 1 1/2 inches long.

* An essential oil obtained from the plant is antiseptic. * Myrtus, with the common name myrtle, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. * Pre-soak the seed for 24 hours in warm water and then sow it in late winter in a greenhouse.

The whole plant can be used at much lower concentrations than the isolated constituents - unlikeusing the isolated ephedrine, using the whole plant rarely gives rise to side-effects.

* Native to southern Italy (including Sardinia ) and Corsica. * Shiny green leaves. * This is an excellent pioneer species for re-establishing woodlands on disused farmland, difficult sites etc.

* Plants can produce many stems and suckers, with older stems, which can reach 5 metres (16 ft) in height, having distinctive gray bark. Red stem color is more easily seen after the fruits are gone, and red color often persists into early winter.

* Used as a rootstock for P. Pyrifolia culta in Korea, it is very frost resistant. * This makes a beautiful flowering tree all on its own even though it is primarily grown as an extremely cold hardy rootstock for grafting edible pear varieties.

It is also locally used for firewood and carpentry. Perry (1991) reports that logging has greatly reduced its range, but based on my observations in 2007 around the logging town of El Salto, Durango, it is currently managed with sustainable uneven-aged...

* It prefers dry soil and plenty of sunlight. * Individual Blue Oaks over 500 years old have been recorded, although most are less than 300 years old. * It is also sometimes known as the Mountain Oak, and occasionally the Iron Oak.

The fruit is about 5mm in diameter. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. * Unlike many other species of currant, R. They make an acceptable dessert fruit and are also used in jellies, sauces and pies.

* It is a perennial plant sometimes found in acidic bogs , for example in the Portlethen Moss , Scotland. * This is one of the food plants for the caterpillars of several butterflies and moths, including the Gatekeeper and the Meadow Brown.

* Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging. * The Cercocarpus betuloides leaves are distinctive in that they have smooth edges from the base to about half way up, then are wavy or toothed to the rounded...

Their nuts are much smaller, have a strong flavor of turpentine , and have a shell that is not hard. Vera by their geographic distributions (in the wild) and their nuts. Pistacia vera often is confused with other species in the genus Pistacia that are...

The leaves have blades that are lanceolate to broadly ovate or elliptic in shape with out lobes. * The ripe seed is a favorite food of finches in winter. * Rudbeckia fulgida are perennial herbaceous plants growing up to 120 cm tall, growing from rosettes...

* Bark dark red-brown, peeling in strips. It is native to northern Burma and China, but is sometimes grown in western gardens where it has been in cultivation since 1848. * In cultivation they tend to grow on a single stem that is often leaning and bare...

* It is now commonly planted as an ornamental tree across the British Isles and some parts of western Europe. * This tree is widely grown because it is the most cold hardy of all the Eucalyptus species.

* Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic livestock and native herbivores. The water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding .

* The fruits I have eaten have been considerably larger than this. This thorny shrub is native to northern and western North America, where it grows in varied habitats from forest to scrubland.

The leaves are 5 to 6 centimeters long, glossy dark green in color and turning gold to red in the fall. * This is a small tree growing up to about 10 meters tall and 8 meters wide, rounded in form when young and spreading and flattening as it matures.

* The rarely used name of parrot tree derives from the large numbers of parrots attracted to the tree during its flowering season. * Schotia brachypetala or weeping boer-bean is a leguminous flowering tree in the family Fabaceae (bean family/pod-bearing...

* Ligustrum vulgare ( Wild Privet , also sometimes known as Common Privet or European Privet ), is a species of Ligustrum native to central and southern Europe , north Africa and southwestern Asia , from southern England and southwestern Sweden south...

Succeeds on dry gravels and on sandy soils. * 3" leaves, blue green or gray green; reddish-yellow fruit; native to western Asia, southeast Europe. * Celtis tournefortii, commonly known as the 'oriental hackberry' is a deciduous tree in the Celtis genus.

Useful for making tool handles, mallets and other small items. * The wood is heavy, hard, tough, close-grained. It has been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels and to improve blood circulation.