Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In District Of Columbia

The name derives from the Latin for turnip , r?pum or r?pa , and is first recorded in English at the end of the 14th century. * The leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * Dwarf Essex Rape is an excellent forage crop for livestock and wildlife.

Such hybrids in general have shallowly lobed or dentate, semipersistent leaves and intermediate characteristics of pubescence and fruit between parental types. Such hybrids are usually referred to as the Quercus × undulata complex because of widespread...

* Halesia tetraptera, commonly known as the common silverbell is a species in the family Styracaceae, native to the southeastern United States. * The species is found in scattered populations over much of the eastern United States, as far north as West...

* The fruit is a very dark purple pome up to about a centimeter across. * The fruit raw or cooked. Has a very pleasant flavour with a sweet and juicy succulent flesh, it makes an excellent dessert fruit and can be eaten in quantity.

* Few trees flower more elegantly-- white, bell-shaped, 3/4" blooms dangling like raindrops in rows along year-old branches; spring flowering; the limbs arch up and out to form a rounded, horizontal canopy; few pests; likes rich, acid soil; an understory...

* A quick-growing, not to say rampant vine; can be pruned as a shrub; usually grown on a trellis for commercial production of the hops used in beer making; hops are produced on female plants; native to Eurasia, has escaped in the U.S.

* Pinus albicaulis (known commonly as Whitebark pine , Pitch pine , Scrub pine , and Creeping pine ) occurs in the mountains of the Western United States and Canada , specifically the subalpine areas of the Sierra Nevada , the Cascade Range , the Pacific...

They are white and open well after sunset and close in mid-afternoon. * The image of the saguaro is indelibly linked with that of the American Southwest, especially in western films.

* About 450,000 kilos of the seeds are sold in American markets each year. The jay uses the seeds as a food resource. * The Pinon Pine ( Pinus edulis ) is a small to medium size tree , reaching 10-20 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 80 cm, rarely...

* The pecan (pronounced /p??k??n/ , /p??kaen/ , or /?pi?kaen/ ), Carya illinoinensis or illinoensis , is a species of hickory , native to south-central North America , in Mexico from Coahuila south to Jalisco and Veracruz , in the United States from southern...

* The Bur-gambel oak is a Bur oak hybrid which is vigorous, fast growing, and produces heavy crops of acorns at a young age. * Wildlife benefit: Squirrels, chipmunks, deer, birds, and turkeys eat the acorns.

* The Chir Pine ( Pinus roxburghii ) named after William Roxburgh , is a pine native to the Himalaya . It generally occurs at lower altitudes than other pines in the Himalaya, from 500-2000 m, occasionally up to 2,300 metres (7,500 ft).

* Roman soldiers were given chestnut porridge before entering battle. A somewhat astringent taste raw, it improves considerably when cooked and is delicious baked with a floury texture and a flavour rather like sweet potatoes.

* Paliurus spina-christi , commonly known as Jerusalem Thorn , Garland Thorn , Christ's Thorn , or Crown of Thorns , is a species of Paliurus native to the Mediterranean region and southwest and central Asia , from Morocco and Spain east to Iran and Tajikistan...

The baked seed makes very pleasant eating, it has a taste rather like a cross between potatoes and sweet chestnuts. * Ginkgos are very large trees, normally reaching a height of 20–35 m (66–115 feet), with some specimens in China being over 50 m (164...

This is the variety that is most commonly seen in the supermarket, sold in bunches. It's flavor is mild and is great fresh, in salads or sandwiches. If you let some go to seed, the pods are edible.

* Siberian Pine is treated as a variety or subspecies of the very similar Swiss Pine (Pinus cembra) by some botanists. * Pinus sibirica is a member of the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus, and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles')...

This bonsai plant should receive excellent air circulation always. It is widely cultivated throughout Armenia , Azerbaijan , Iran , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Turkey , India , the drier parts of southeast Asia , Indonesia , peninsular Malaysia , the Mediterranean...

Scrub jays prefer burned sites for acorn caching. With age, it develops deep furrows, ridges, and a thickness of about 8 to 9% of bole or branch diameter . * Coast live oak is a native, drought-resistant, evergreen tree, ranging in height from 19 to 82...

* A pomegranate ( Punica granatum ) is a fruit -bearing deciduous shrub or small tree. It is widely cultivated throughout Armenia , Azerbaijan , Iran , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Turkey , India , the drier parts of southeast Asia , Indonesia , peninsular...

* Elaeagnus commutata ( American Silverberry or Wolf-willow ), is a species of Elaeagnus native to western North America , from southern Alaska through British Columbia east to Manitoba , and south to Utah and across the upper Midwestern United States...

* A decidious Shrub growing to 3 m (9ft) by 5 m (16ft). It is in flower from Feb to June, and the seeds ripen in October. * A constituent of its extract has been found to be an effective and selective dopamine reuptake inhibitor.

* It is ripe in November/December and is about 15mm in diameter. The fruit contains about 20% sugars and can be used to make delicious and nourishing jams and preserves. When fully ripe it falls from the tree and so it is advisable to grow the plant in...

Because of its small volume Pyrus serrulata can be easily planted in small gardens. Established plants are drought tolerant. Tolerates light shade but does not fruit so well in such a position.

Cultivars may be grafted. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter. * Plants grow best in rich moist soils and require copious summer watering...

* The Coulter pine or big-cone pine, Pinus coulteri, is a native of the coastal mountains of Southern California and northern Baja California (Mexico). Coulter pines produce the largest cones of any pine tree species (people are actually advised to wear...

* Produces an abundance of long yellow sweet peppers from mid summer until frost.