Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Texas

* A delicious slightly acid flavour, it makes an excellent dessert fruit and can be eaten in quantity. It is native to southwestern Asia , where it has been cultivated for so long that its precise natural range is unknown.

* The fragrant flowers emerge in early summer and are light pink in color. * It is a fairly good source of essential fatty acids, which is fairly unusual for a fruit. * White or pink flowers to 2 1/2"; pear-shaped 1/3-2/3" hips, shiny red or red-orange;...

It is rather small, about 8mm in diameter. They can be eaten raw or cooked. * Amelanchier spicata, also referred to as the thicket shadbush, low juneberry, dwarf serviceberry, or low serviceberry (historically also called "pigeon berry"), is a species...

They are sometimes used in the production of schnapps. * This tree is native to the Caucasus region where it is nearly threatened by habitat loss and cutting for firewood. * It is an ancester of many modern pear varieties.

It is in flower from Mar to May, and the seeds ripen from Aug to October. Large with an agreeably acid flavour, theymake good preserves and a refreshing lemonade-like drink. It is used in preserves.

* The very bold, decorative leaves and the attractive catkins produced in spring make it an excellent ornamental tree for planting in parks and large gardens. * The fruit is a nut , produced in bunches of 4-10 together; the nut is spherical, 3-5 cm long...

* Vaccinium arboreum ( Sparkleberry or Farkleberry ) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States , from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri , and south to Florida and eastern Texas .

* Plum Island, Massachusetts and Plum Island, New York are named after the Beach Plum; as are Plum Cove Beach in Lanesville, Gloucester, Massachusetts; and Beach Plum Island (State Park) in Sussex County, Delaware.

Sow stored seed in a cold frame as early in the year as possible. A dark grey to green dye can be obtained from the fruit. The seed can be rather slow, sometimes taking 18 months to germinate.

* This species is sometimes used as a rootstock. * Juglans major (literally, the larger walnut) is a walnut tree which grows to 50 ft tall (15 m) with a DBH of up to 2 feet (0.61 m) at elevations of 1000–7000 ft in Texas , Oklahoma , New Mexico , Arizona...

* Cornus sessilis is a species of dogwood known by the common names blackfruit cornel or blackfruit dogwood and miner's dogwood . * The fruit of this species is about 1 - 1.5cm long:- It is eaten raw or cooked.

* The very bold, decorative leaves and the attractive catkins produced in spring make it an excellent ornamental tree for planting in parks and large gardens. * The fruit is a nut , produced in bunches of 4-10 together; the nut is spherical, 3-5 cm long...

1 cm, subglabrous. * Shrubs to 3 m tall. Lateral branches short, thornlike; young branchlets rusty pubescent, dark brown and glabrescent when old. Petiole glabrous or initially slightly pubescent; stipules not seen; leaf blade obovate or obovate-oblong,...

* Nyssa aquatica ( Water Tupelo , Cottongum , Sourgum , Tupelo-gum , and Water-gum ) is a large, long-lived tupelo tree that grows in swamps and floodplains of the Eastern United States .

When kept in a cool place, and not shelled, the seed should store for at least 12 months. The seed ripens in mid to late autumn and will probably need to be protected from squirrels.

* Elaeagnus umbellata , also referred to as Japanese Silverberry , Umbellate Oleaster or Autumn-olive , is a species of Elaeagnus native to eastern Asia from the Himalayas east to Japan .

* Dwarf Chinkapin oak can produce acorns at 3 - 5 years. * The acorns of dwarf chinkapin oak are sweet tasting and relished by humans and many kinds of wildlife. * The dwarf chinkapin oak is a large, clonally spreading deciduous shrub or very small tree...

This particular species is known by the common names thinleaf huckleberry, tall huckleberry, big huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, and (ambiguously) as "black huckleberry".

The leaves are deciduous , rounded, 6–12 cm long and across, softly hairy on both surfaces, and with a double-serrate margin. They can also be liquidized and used as a plant milk.

* Prunus pumila, commonly called sand cherry with eastern, western, Great Lakes and Susquehana varieties, is a species of Prunus native to eastern and central North America, from New Brunswick west to Ontario and Montana, south to North Carolina, and...

* Oregon cherry or Bitter cherry ( Prunus emarginata ) is a species of Prunus native to western North America , from British Columbia south to California , and east to western Wyoming and Arizona .

* The chokecherry fruit can be used to make a tasty jam, jelly, or syrup. * Chokecherry is a suckering shrub or small tree growing to 5 m tall. * Chokecherries are very high in antioxidant pigment compounds, such as anthocyanins.

This particular species is known by the common names thinleaf huckleberry, tall huckleberry, big huckleberry, mountain huckleberry, square-twig blueberry, and (ambiguously) as "black huckleberry".

* It is a deciduous shrub or small tree that can grow to 1–8 m (3–26 ft) (rarely to 10 m, 33 ft) in height. About the size of a blackcurrant, the fruit is produced in small clusters and the best wild forms can be 15mm in diameter.

Established plants are very drought resistant. Succeeds on dry gravels and on sandy soils. * 3" leaves, blue green or gray green; reddish-yellow fruit; native to western Asia, southeast Europe.

* The fruit is sweet and juicy with a good flavour that has a hint of apple. It usually grows to only 3-5' tall and features 5-petaled, showy, white flowers in drooping clusters which appear before the leaves emerge in early spring.

When large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in a cold frame for their first winter. The fruit is rich in pectin and can be added to fruits that are low in this substance when making jams etc.