Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant Heat Tolerant For Sale In Seattle

* The germinating seed produces an underground 'earth nut' which has a coconut-like flavour. * Sometimes grown as a pot plant in colder areas. * Starchy and delicious, it has the texture of a waxy boiled potato with the flavour of chestnuts.

* Carya floridana (syn. * The kernel is sweet, though the shell is thick. * Although it can grow to the height of 25 meters, many specimens are seen as shrubs 3–5 m tall with many small trunks.

* The Paper Mulberry ( Broussonetia papyrifera , syn. * Grows like mad; tolerant of cities and poor soil; tends to sucker; sometimes used as a street tree; 8" leaves yellow-green in fall; red fruit.

* A delicious slightly acid flavour, it makes an excellent dessert fruit and can be eaten in quantity. * 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...

* The Chir Pine ( Pinus roxburghii ) named after William Roxburgh , is a pine native to the Himalaya . The other Himalayan pines are Blue Pine , Bhutan White Pine , Chinese White Pine , Chilgoza Pine and Sikang Pine .

It was first grown commercially in New Zealand, where it has been superseded by Actinidia deliciosa, or Kiwifruit. * Vine; source of the kiwi fruit of supermarkets; originally from China; commercial crop in Southeast

* A green dye can be obtained from the leaves. The scientific name describes the flower clusters, known as umbels, that are rounded, with equal stalks like an umbrella. * The wild plums of this species are gathered for making jellies and jams.

It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. An edible oil is obtained from the seed. Avellana, the common hazel nut. * An impressive, handsome tree of pyramidal form; usually short trunked and low-branching; dark green, sometimes...

All parts of the plant contain latex in articulated laticifers. * Papaya skin, pulp and seeds contain a variety of phytochemicals, including carotenoids and polyphenols, as well as benzyl isothiocyanates and benzyl glucosinates, with skin and pulp levels...

* Trees are probably much hardier when grown in areas with hot summers. Wild collected seed will produce smaller harder shelled nuts. In the wild, trees grow best in areas where summer temperatures average 24 - 30°c and the humidity is high.

This characteristic enables the saguaro to survive during periods of drought. When the saguaro dies and its soft flesh rots, the callus remains as a so-called "saguaro boot", which was used by natives for storage.

Has some nice ornamental features (shiny dark green summer foliage, flower panicles in late summer, fruiting clusters in fall and excellent fall foliage color), but is probably too weedy and aggressive for shrub borders or foundations.

* It prefers dry soil and plenty of sunlight. * 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.

Sow the seed as soon as the soil temperatures are bove 40 degrees F. They are grown and consumed throughout the world. The young plants can also be eaten as a slightly spicy tasting micro-green.

* They are commonly served raw and peeled. * The fruit contains about 4.9% sugars, 3.2% protein, 0.9% pectin. * The fruit tends to be quite large and fragrant, and when carefully wrapped (it has a tendency to bruise because of its juiciness), it can last...

* It is a spreading shrub or small tree, reaching 2–8 m in height at maturity. * When baked it becomes even sweeter and develops a floury texture, it makes an excellent potato or cereal substitute.

The pomegranate tree needs a number of years in the ground for the trunk to become thick because the trunk will not thicken in a bonsai pot. It is widely cultivated throughout Armenia , Azerbaijan , Iran , Afghanistan , Pakistan , Turkey , India , the...

This characteristic enables the saguaro to survive during periods of drought. When the saguaro dies and its soft flesh rots, the callus remains as a so-called "saguaro boot", which was used by natives for storage.

There is a local disjunct population in Mexico as well. Frangula caroliniana ), the Carolina Buckthorn , is an upright shrub or small tree native to the Southeastern United States .

* Carya floridana (syn. * The kernel is sweet, though the shell is thick. * Although it can grow to the height of 25 meters, many specimens are seen as shrubs 3–5 m tall with many small trunks.

* Coffea arabica is a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the mountains of Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula , hence its name, and also from the southwestern highlands of Ethiopia and southeastern Sudan .

* Synonymous with Halesia tetraptera (tetraptera meaning four-winged). Prefers moist, acidic, organically rich soils in part shade. * Few trees flower more elegantly-- white, bell-shaped, 3/4" blooms dangling like raindrops in rows along year-old branches;...

Numerous cultivars with flowers in shades of white, pink and red have been selected. It is hardy to zone 5 and is not frost tender. * A decidious Shrub growing to 3 m (9ft) by 5 m (16ft).

* Mature serrano pepper plants reach a height of between one and a half and five feet tall. The Mexican states of Veracruz, Sinaloa, Nayarit, and Tamaulipas produce about 180,000 tons of Serranos each year.

Vera by their geographic distributions (in the wild) and their nuts. These species can be distinguished from P. Their nuts are much smaller, have a strong flavor of turpentine , and have a shell that is not hard.

This species is used for similar purposes in southern China. The fruit is antitussive, aphrodisiac, hepatic, astringent, cardiotonic, cholagogue, expectorant, hypotensive, lenitive, nervine, pectoral, sedative, stimulant and tonic.

* A resinous gum obtained from the bark has been used in folk medicine to treat digestive disorders. The upper branches of the tree tend to droop. The tree's pinnately compound leaves measure 8-25 cm long x 4-9 cm wide and are made up of 19-41 alternate...