Evergreen Plant Seeds For Sale In Chicago

* Very young leaf buds are cooked as a vegetable. * Easily grown in a rich strong loam enriched with leafmold and sand. It also has numerous sharp needle-like spines produced on the leaf stems; these protect the stem growing point from browsing animals.

* The Interior Live Oak ( Quercus wislizeni ) is an evergeen oak , highly variable and often shrubby, found in areas of California in the United States . The dark-green leaves are usually small, 2.5-7 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, thick and often spiny-toothed,...

* Wyman calls this "a fine, narrow tree"; 1/2" needles, light green; cones to 4"; conical in outline, with ascending branches, lacking the tiered quality of some spruces; native to Japan.

Common names in English include lilyturf, big blue lilyturf, border grass, and monkey grass. Hardy to at least -15°c. * Seedlings grown from our seed will not be variegated as the plants are in some of the pictures above.

* Dirr calls this tree "genuinely beautiful" but says it's not for the Southeast states in U.S.; matures into a flat-topped tree with horizontal branches; good dark green foliage; good salt tolerance; native to coastal California.

* It is found only in China. It is also known as Farges' fir, after the French missionary, botanist and plant collector, Paul Guillaume Farges, 1844-1912. * Bark smooth, grey, finely flaky on young trees, becoming grey-brown, scaly, and fissured on old...

Needles (to 6” long) in bundles of two are an attractive dark green. * The Chinese Red Pine Pinus tabuliformis (?? Yous?ng in Mandarin) is a pine native to northern China from Liaoning west to Inner Mongolia and Gansu , and south to Shandong , Henan...

Strobus; "makes a beautiful specimen" (Wyman). * Narrower and more symmetrical in habit than P. * The roasted young cones can be eaten. * It is related to the Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus), differing from it in having larger cones, slightly longer-lasting...

A decoction of fruiting branches is used in the treatment of colds. Used for general construction, agricultural implements etc. The foliage grows in dense, usually moderately decumbent and pendulous sprays of bright green, very slender, slightly flattened...

The species is named after Scottish botanist Robert Fortune, who discovered the tree in 1844. * An evergreen native to southeastern China with needlelike foliage; pyramidal when young, later flat-topped; 7" cones, purple when young.

Excelsa is not the tallest in the genus. * Rhapis excelsa also known as Broadleaf Lady Palm is a species of fan palm (Arecaceae subfamily Coryphoideae, tribe Corypheae) in the genus Rhapis, probably native to southern China and Taiwan.

* A majority of the modern sources treat it as a distinct species Cedrus atlantica , but some sources consider it a subspecies of Lebanon Cedar ( C. The wooden structure was designed by the President himself, and is self-supporting so as not to cause...

* Needles to 10", cones to 3 1/2"; native to Yunnan, China. * Yunnan Pine ( Pinus yunnanensis ) is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. It is found only in China ( Yunnan ).

It is found in cold but humid temperate rain forests , and nowhere does its range extend more than 400 km from the Pacific Ocean . * The Jezo spruce or Yezo spruce ( Picea jezoensis or Picea yezoensis ) is a large evergreen tree growing to 30-50 m tall...

* Cupressus pigmaea ( Mendocino Cypress ) is a taxon of disputed status in the genus Cupressus endemic to certain coastal terraces and coastal mountain ranges of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties in northwestern California .

* The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong. It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel. * Cliftonia monophylla ( Buck-wheat tree , Buckwheat tree , Titi ) is a tree native to the United States .

* It is found only in China. It is also known as Farges' fir, after the French missionary, botanist and plant collector, Paul Guillaume Farges, 1844-1912. * Bark smooth, grey, finely flaky on young trees, becoming grey-brown, scaly, and fissured on old...

Increase in the girth of trees grown in the open can be quite fast, averaging 3cm a year. * Picea breweriana ( Brewer Spruce or Weeping Spruce ) is a species of spruce native to western North America , where it is one of the rarest in the continent, endemic...

The bark is thick and dark brown, with deep longitudinal fissures. * The common name "Khasi pine" is from the Khasi hills in India. * The leaves are needle-like, dark green, usually 3 per fascicle, 15–20 cm long, the fascicle sheath 1–2 cm long and...

It is most common in chaparral habitat in central Arizona , through the transition zone of the Mogollon Rim – White Mountains , but also southeast Arizona in the Madrean Sky Island mountain ranges of sky islands .

* Cupressus pigmaea ( Mendocino Cypress ) is a taxon of disputed status in the genus Cupressus endemic to certain coastal terraces and coastal mountain ranges of Mendocino and Sonoma Counties in northwestern California .

In recent times it has extended its range as competing broadleaf forests are logged (Farjon 1984, Li 1997, Richardson and Rundel 1998). * China: predominantly at 600-3000 m elevation on the high plateaus of Yunnan (Li 1997), but extending N into Sichuan,...

Ponderosa subsp. * An infusion of the dried buds has been used as an eye wash. The 'North Plateau' group includes populations formerly assigned to P. Mason & Stockwell (which is arguably a distinct taxon at the varietal rank), as well as those conventionally...

The bark is thick and dark brown, with deep longitudinal fissures. * The common name "Khasi pine" is from the Khasi hills in India. * The leaves are needle-like, dark green, usually 3 per fascicle, 15–20 cm long, the fascicle sheath 1–2 cm long and...

* The Jeffrey pine is closely related to the ponderosa pine and is similar in appearance. * Jeffrey pine is tolerant of serpentine soils and is often dominant in these conditions, even on dry sites at fairly low altitudes.

It needs full sun to grow well, is intolerant of shade, and is resistant to snow and ice damage. The shiny dark green needles are 3 to 6 1/2". The bark is grey to yellow-brown, and is widely split by flaking fissures into scaly plates, becoming increasingly...

* Externally it is a very beneficial treatment for a variety of skin complaints, wounds, sores, burns, boils etc and is used in the form of liniment plasters, poultices, herbal steam baths and inhalers.