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Manchurian Catalpa Catalpa bungei
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The leaf, stem bark and the seeds are all used as dressings for sores, boils etc. Tolerates heavy clay soils. Plants are hardy to about -15°c, probably more in continental climates, they grow best in areas with hot summers.
  • Family: Bignoniaceae
  • Genus: Catalpa
  • Purity: 96%
  • Botanical Name: Catalpa bungei
  • Species: bungei
  • Height: 25-30 feet
Illinois
Chicago
Waterer Golden Chain Tree, Waterer  Laburnum, Goldenchain Tree Laburnum watereri     - Laburnum x watereri
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Laburnum seed can poison anyone who mistakes the seeds for peas. Symptoms of laburnum poisoning may include intense sleepiness, vomiting, convulsive movements, coma, slight frothing at the mouth and unequally dilated pupils.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 15,436
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Common Name: Waterer Golden Chain Tree, Waterer Laburnum, Goldenchain Tree
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Purity: 99%
  • Genus: Laburnum
Illinois
Chicago
Western Yellow Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Rocky Mountain Ponderosa Pine Pinus ponderosa scopulorum
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

Mostly at 1000-3000 m (Kral 1993). * Branches usually drooping, smaller in all its parts, of more columnar habit. * Distribution and Ecology USA: Montana (E from 112° W), North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, E Nevada, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma.
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 12,712
  • Germination: 71%
  • Botanical Name: Pinus ponderosa scopulorum
  • Height: 120 feet
  • Quantity: 2.99 lb
Illinois
Chicago
Houpu Magnolia, Magnolia-bark Magnolia Magnolia officinalis  biloba   - Magnolia biloba
Price : CALL

Further research may or may not eventually determine if M. Obovata (Hunt 1998). The bark is thick and brown but does not fissure. Officinalis should be treated as a subspecies of M.
  • Genus: Magnolia
  • Variety: biloba
  • Height: 50-60 feet
  • Botanical Name: Magnolia officinalis biloba
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
Illinois
Chicago
Koyama Spruce Picea koyamai
Price : CALL

* 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.
  • Family: PINACEAE
  • Species: koyamai
  • Height: 75 feet
  • Botanical Name: Picea koyamai
Illinois
Chicago
Ponderosa Pine, Southwestern Ponderosa Pine, Western Yellow Pine Pinus ponderosa  brachyptera
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The 'South Rockies' group includes populations formerly assigned to Pinus brachyptera Engelmann (1848) from Arizona and New Mexico. Brachyptera (not published). Ponderosa subsp. * Ponderosa pine was employed medicinally by several native North American...
  • Purity: 99%
  • Crop Year: 2004
  • Variety: brachyptera
  • Seeds Per Pound: 10,896
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 41
  • Family: Pinaceae
Illinois
Chicago
Serbian Spruce Picea omorika
Price : CALL

It has a remarkably slender trunk and short ascending or drooping branches on a narrow-pyramidal framwork. * Moderately wind resistant, it is sometimes planted in shelterbelts. * "One of the most graceful and beautiful spruces", says Dirr, who says it...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Genus: Picea
  • Species: omorika
  • Seeds Per Pound: 138,470
  • Purity: 98%
Illinois
Chicago
Black Walnut
Prices start at : 9.99 USD / each

Plant six feet apart in rows eight feet apart. Cultivate for the first two years. For a windbreak plant two to five rows for the most effective protection. Shipped 18 to 24 inches tall.
  • Season Color: Summer
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun
  • Deer Resistant: No
Illinois
Chicago
Pindrow Fir, West Himalayan Fir, Silver Fir Abies pindrow
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is a large evergreen tree growing to 40-60 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 2-2.5 m. * Fir native to the western Himalaya and adjacent mountains, from northeast Afghanistan east through northern Pakistan and India to central Nepal.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 18
  • Height: 120-180 feet
  • Quantity: 0.62 lb
  • Family: PINACEAE
  • Common Name: Pindrow Fir, West Himalayan Fir, Silver Fir
  • Genus: Abies
Illinois
Chicago
Brewer Spruce, Brewer\'s Spruce, Weeping Spruce Picea breweriana
Price : CALL

* A strikingly attractive tree when mature; horizontal major branches curve up at the tips; cone-shaped when young, broadening somewhat with maturity; branchlets droop straight down and form curtains to 7-8' long; bark is dark pinkish gray, in round plates;...
  • Genus: Picea
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Species: breweriana
  • Botanical Name: Picea breweriana
Illinois
Chicago
Chinese Hemlock Tsuga chinensis
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

These tips are also an ingredient of 'spruce beer' Chinensis is a large tree with bark that is a blackish brown in colour. * Inner bark - raw or dried, ground into a powder and then used as a thickening in soups etc or mixed with cereals when making bread.
  • Genus: Tsuga
  • Family: PINACEAE
  • Botanical Name: Tsuga chinensis
  • Purity: 90%
  • Height: 100-120 feet
  • Quantity: 0.34 lb
Illinois
Chicago
Needle Fir, Manchurian Fir Abies holophylla
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Manchurian Fir is used as an ornamental plant. * The bark is scaly and gray-brown with resin blisters. * An evergreen coniferous tree growing to 30 m tall and 1 m in trunk diameter with a narrowly conical crown of horizontal spreading branches.
  • Purity: 98%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Quantity: 5.4 lb
  • Height: 100 feet
  • Crop Year: 2001
  • Species: holophylla
Illinois
Chicago
Italian Stone Pine, Umbrella Pine Pinus pinea
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

They can also be ground into a powder and used as a thickener and flavouring in soups etc. This tree has been exploited for its edible pine nuts since prehistoric times. It makes a delicious snack and can also be used as a staple food.
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Seeds Per Pound: 535
  • Species: pinea
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Common Name: Italian Stone Pine, Umbrella Pine
Illinois
Chicago
Bigleaf Maple ACER davidii grosseri  Hersi China - ACER grosseri   Hersi China
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A species of maple in the snakebark maple group. * It is native to China , from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong , and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan.

China

    • Location: China
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 15
    • Collection Locale: China
    • Botanical Name: ACER davidii grosseri Hersi China
    • Purity: 98%
    • Species: davidii
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Douglas Fir Pseudotsuga menziesii  glauca  MT Kootenei
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Douglas fir seeds are an extremely important food for small mammals. * It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings. * The Douglas fir's useful wood and its quick growth make it the crop of choice for many timber companies, which typically...
    • Crop Year: 2005
    • Botanical Name: Pseudotsuga menziesii glauca MT Kootenei
    • Quantity: 1.09 lb
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    • Genus: Pseudotsuga
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 28
    Illinois
    Chicago
    David\'s Keteleeria Keteleeria davidiana
    Price : CALL

    Larger trees will check badly and hardly put on any growth for several years. The tree is restricted to hills, mountains, and valleys at elevations of 200-1500 m. They grow best in a Mediterranean climate.
    • Species: davidiana
    • Height: 120-150 feet
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
    • Common Name: David's Keteleeria
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Windmill Palm, Chinese Windmill Palm, Chusan Palm Trachycarpus fortunei     - Chamaerops fortunei    , Chamaerops excelsa
    Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is commonly grown in gardens in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, the Southeastern and Pacific Northwestern United States and California, coastal regions of British Columbia, as well as extreme southern hemisphere...
    • Seeds Per Pound: 1,816
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Purity: 99%
    • Quantity: 3.95 lb
    • Height: 30-40 feet
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 12
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Western Hemlock Tsuga heterophylla
    Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

    The bark is brown, thin and furrowed. Mertensiana ) reaching a maximum of 59 m. It is the largest species of hemlock , with the next largest ( Mountain Hemlock T. * The tallest hemlock; forms a narrow crown; dark green needles and rather pendulous branchlets;...
    • Seeds Per Pound: 202,496
    • Height: 150-200 feet
    • Species: heterophylla
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 217
    • Crop Year: 2014
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Saucer Magnolia Magnolia x soulangeana
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * A cross between M. * Magnolia × soulangeana has alternate, simple, shiny, dark green oval-shaped leaves on stout stems. Heptapeta and M. * Its flowers emerge dramatically on a bare tree in early spring, with the deciduous leaves expanding shortly thereafter,...
    • Quantity: 4.64 lb
    • Collection Locale: Ukraine
    • Common Name: Saucer Magnolia
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    • Botanical Name: Magnolia x soulangeana
    • Crop Year: 2016
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Shore Pine, Beach Pine Pinus contorta  contorta
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    * An attractive shrub or small tree with a short trunk; 2" needles; contorted branches reaching nearly to the ground; of broadly conical form; dark green, much planted in Europe; "an excellent garden tree" (Wyman); native to coastal North America from...
    • Botanical Name: Pinus contorta contorta
    • Genus: Pinus
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 37
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
    • Variety: contorta
    • Common Name: Shore Pine, Beach Pine
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Manchurian Fir Abies nephrolepis
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Twigs slender, firm, yellowish gray-brown turning gray, ridged and grooved with minute pubescence in the grooves, and circular leaf scars. * It is a medium-sized evergreen coniferous tree growing to 30 m tall with a trunk up to 1.2 m diameter and a...
    • Species: nephrolepis
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Seeds Per Pound: 38,366
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Purity: 98%
    • Height: 100-110 feet
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Qinghai Spruce, Thick-leaf Spruce Picea crassifolia
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is found only in China . * This species of spruce should be grown in areas where drought may be a concern. * Picea crassifolia is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. It is much more drought tolerant than most spruce species.
    • Botanical Name: Picea crassifolia
    • Genus: Picea
    • Common Name: Qinghai Spruce, Thick-leaf Spruce
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 87
    • Species: crassifolia
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    Illinois
    Chicago
    California Horse Chestnut, California Buckeye Aesculus californica
    Price : CALL

    * It is in flower from Jul to August, and the seeds ripen in September. * Large shrub or small tree; silvery bark; dark green leaves; flowers fragrant, white to light pink. * A decidious Tree growing to 12 m.
    • Height: 40 feet
    • Botanical Name: Aesculus californica
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
    • Family: Hippocastanaceae
    Illinois
    Chicago
    New Zealand Sophora Sophora tetraptera
    Price : CALL

    * The wood is compact, dense, heavy, of great strength, tough, elastic, extremely durable. Used for bearings, turnery, cabinet work, ornamental uses etc. * Sophora is one of the four genera of native legumes in New Zealand; the other three are Carmichaelia...
    • Genus: Sophora
    • Family: LEGUMINOSAE
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
    • Botanical Name: Sophora tetraptera
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Burningbush, Winged Spindle, Winged Euonymus Euonymus alatus     - Euonymus alata
    Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

    * A versatile and tolerant plant; neat, dark green foliage, reliably turns a splendid red in fall; corky projections run the length of the limbs; a good hedge plant; Dirr notes that it makes a nice small tree if pruned for it and calls it "one of the...
    • Family: Celastraceae
    • Collection Locale: China
    • Botanical Name: Euonymus alatus
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Seeds Per Pound: 19,976
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 42
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Oriental Arborvitae Platycladus orientalis     - Biota orientalis    , Thuja orientalis
    Price : CALL

    This is probably based on the tree's unchangingevergreen nature in the cold dry climate of northwest China, and its longevity; some of the larger specimens planted around Buddhist temples in China are said to be in excess of 1,000 years old.
    • Height: 50-70 feet
    • Family: Cupressaceae
    • Botanical Name: Platycladus orientalis
    • Species: orientalis
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Castor Aralia Kalopanax septemlobus     - Kalopanax pictus
    Price : CALL

    * Maple like leaves; dark gray, ridged bark; younger stems bear spines; white flowers in late summer, sometimes in massive (2') clusters; a very open, rather coarse tree, vaguely round in the crown; likes deep, rich soil, full sun; sometimes grown as...
    • Genus: Kalopanax
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    • Species: septemlobus
    • Height: 100 feet
    Illinois
    Chicago