Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Scottsdale

The seed is an important local food source, and is considered to be a great delicacy. Used like pistachio nuts. The Pine nuts are reported to be an aphrodisiac. It often occurs in association with Blue Pine ( Pinus wallichiana ) and Deodar Cedar ( Cedrus...

* The fruit is eaten raw or dried for later use. A pleasant sub-acid taste, somewhat resembling dried apples. The woody fruit is up to 30mm in diameter. * Paliurus spina-christi , commonly known as Jerusalem Thorn , Garland Thorn , Christ's Thorn , or...

* The fruit is a very dark purple pome up to about a centimeter across. * It is named after David Douglas , who collected seed from the plant during his botanical explorations. * The fruit can also be used for making pies, preserves etc, and can be dried...

It has a wide range of medicinal applications. Sotolon is the chemical responsible for fenugreek's distinctive sweet smell. * One of its constituent alkaloids, called 'trigonelline', has shown potential for use in cancer therapy.

* Carolina buckthorn is a deciduous shrub or small tree that typically grows to 10-15' (infrequently to 30') tall. Frangula caroliniana ), the Carolina Buckthorn , is an upright shrub or small tree native to the Southeastern United States .

In the wild, trees grow best in areas where summer temperatures average 24 - 30°c and the humidity is high. * Trees are probably much hardier when grown in areas with hot summers.

* The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. It typically grows on dry to moist sandy and gravel soils in steppes, meadows or woodland edges. Good when added to soups they also make an excellent jelly.

They are white and open well after sunset and close in mid-afternoon. Each fruit contains around 2,000 seeds plus sweet fleshy connective tissue. * The image of the saguaro is indelibly linked with that of the American Southwest, especially in western...

* Synonymous with Halesia tetraptera (tetraptera meaning four-winged). In the wild, Carolina silverbell typically does not exceed 35' in height (though specimens have been found in the 80-100' range), and is frequently shrubby in habit.

* It will yield normal sized cucumbers but not take up as much room in the garden. * This variety is perfect for growing in containers or restricted spaces.

* Juniperus communis subsp. A tea made from the berries has a spicy gin-like flavour. Common Juniper has needle-like leaves in whorls of three; the leaves are green, with a single white stomatal band on the inner surface.

A sugar can be extracted from the seed. * This tree responds very well to coppicing, which is still practised in Britain, and produces a good crop of tannin-rich wood every 12 to 30 years, depending on intended use and local growth rate.

It can be eaten out of hand. * When growing in the wild the azerole bears plentiful crops of haw fruits, which are similar to the haws of the European common hawthorn, but plumper.

Tall, occasionally reaching tree size in Texas. Plant forms a trunk when grown in standing water. * An understorey shrub of broad-leaved, mainly deciduous woodlands in low-lying river terrace areas and other sites where water at the roots is readily available.

It is native to eastern North America from Ontario to Texas to Florida , and it is widely used in horticulture . * 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...

* Golden currant is a 3-6 ft., deciduous shrub with light-green, three-lobed leaves and spicy-scented racemes of yellow flowers, turning orange with age, on long, wand-like stems. * Ribes aureum Pursh (syn.

* The Blue Oak ( Quercus douglasii ) is an oak in the white oak section of the genus, Quercus sect. * The name Blue Oak derives from the dark blue-green tint of its leaves, which are deciduous, 4–10 cm long, and entire or shallowly lobed.

The seed is the part of the plant used medicinally. The best edible roots should be produced from a May/June sowing, whilst sowing the seed in the spring as well as the summer should ensure a supply of edible leaves all year round.

The fruit can also be made into preserves, pies, drinks etc or be dried and used like raisins. Sweet and juicy with a pleasant flavour, it makes good raw eating. In English it is known as salal , shallon , or in Britain simply Gaultheria .

* The fruit itself has the texture of a lush tropical fruit and has a delicate pleasant flavour. * The Strawberry Tree grows to 5-10 m tall, rarely up to 15 m, with a trunk diameter of up to 80 cm.

* Plants can be grown as a hedge in exposed positions, tolerating maritime exposure. Noxious weed in California. It is fairly fast-growing and very tolerant of pruning, but is rather open in habit and does not form a dense screen.

* A twining vine grown for its clusters of red fruit in fall; 4" shiny leaves; 1/2" white or pink fragrant flowers in small clusters; need both sexes to produce fruit; native to China.

* Of crooked, wide-spreading habit; berries eaten raw and used in jam and wine; dark red, purple, or black fruit, at 1" the largest of the genus; probably native to Asia. * A delicious slightly acid flavour, it makes an excellent dessert fruit and can...

A sugar can be extracted from the seed. * This tree responds very well to coppicing, which is still practised in Britain, and produces a good crop of tannin-rich wood every 12 to 30 years, depending on intended use and local growth rate.

This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height. * Arctostaphylos viscida is a species of manzanita known by the common names whiteleaf manzanita and sticky manzanita .

* The fruits are the sweetest when soft and orange. * Loquats are unusual among fruit trees in that the flowers appear in the autumn or early winter, and the fruits are ripe in late winter or early spring.

* The plants can be grown as a hedge and windbreak. A red dye is obtained from the fruit. Because it has a wide-ranging root system, forms thickets and is wind tolerant, it is sometimes planted for erosion control.