Honey Bee Food Crop Plant For Sale In Iowa

* Fuller's teasel is occasionally cultivated for its seed head, which is used for carding cloth. The root is harvested in early autumn and dried for later use. * By the 20th century, teasels had been largely replaced by metal cards, which can be made...

Caution is advised since this is a poisonous plant. They are taken both internally and externally in the treatment of syphilitic, cancerous and other foul ulcers. Growing usually on the margins of woodland areas, it is native to Eastern, Southern and...

* Vaccinium membranaceum is this species that is the most commonly collected of all of the wild western huckleberries, and it has great commercial importance. It occurs in both pine and spruce dominated forests and in open meadow ecosystems.

They may either be sown directly or started in a nursery. * Its laxative effect, due to its anthraquinone content, is also well proven. * This species is easy to grow from the seed.

It is perhaps best known for its use as a hair tonic whilst the root is also taken internally as a treatment for non-malignant swollen glands and especially for mastitis. * The large leaves, up to 1 foot long, are interesting.

* Fruits are very narrow, foot-long pods. * The flowers are considered to be one of the best bee plants in Japan. Speciosa, it is much smaller, typically reaching heights between 20 and 30 feet.

* Rosa palustris is a shrub with alternate, pinnately compound leaves , on thorny stems. The flowers are pink, borne in summer.

* White flowers in long clusters; may be a tree or shrub; egg-shaped fruit with five "wings"; prefers moist sandy loam; native to Japan and China. * Pterostyrax corymbosa is a deciduous Tree growing to 12 m (39ft 4in) at a fast rate.It is hardy to zone...

* Though one of the most shade-tolerant roses, this species grows best in open, sunny locations. * It is a fairly good source of essential fatty acids, which is fairly unusual for a fruit.

Umbelliferous plants are so named because of the umbrella-like arrangement of flowers they produce. It is an umbelliferous plant, in the same group as fennel, cow parsley, elder and giant hogweed.

* Plants are very vigorous and can be grown as a tall ground cover for large areas. * Rubus odoratus ( Purple-flowering Raspberry , Flowering Raspberry , or Virginia raspberry ) is a species of Rubus , native to eastern North America , from Nova Scotia...

* Fuller's teasel is occasionally cultivated for its seed head, which is used for carding cloth. The root is harvested in early autumn and dried for later use. * By the 20th century, teasels had been largely replaced by metal cards, which can be made...

It is by no means a disagreeable vegetable. Considered to be a delicacy in Siberia, the flavour is intermediate between purslane and spinach. It is hardy to zone 6 and is not frost tender.

* Easily grown in a good well-drained loamy soil in sun or semi-shade. * Rubus parviflorus typically grows along roadsides, railroad tracks, and in forest clearings, commonly appearing as an early part of the ecological succession in clear cut and forest...

* An aromatic resin is obtained from the trunk of this tree. * Liquidambar formosana is a large, native, deciduous tree that grows up to 30-40m tall. Formosana turns a very attractive red color in autumn.Leaves grow in an alternate arrangement, and are...

* The leaves contain up to 2.4% of an antibacterial substance called 'phloretin'.This inhibits the growth of a number of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria in as low a concentration as 30 ppm.

From summer to autumn, bears violet to purple, or white to pink flowers, to 1/2in. The many inflorescences have closely spaced whorls of small flowers with brightly colored calyces.

* Though one of the most shade-tolerant roses, this species grows best in open, sunny locations. * It is a fairly good source of essential fatty acids, which is fairly unusual for a fruit.

* Prefers a good moist loamy alkaline to neutral soil but succeeds on slightly acid soils. Young leaves have some pubescence on vein axils underneath. Grows poorly on any very dry or very wet soil.

Moschata cultivars are generally more tolerant of hot, humid weather than cultivars of C. Sow 2 or 3 seeds per pot and thin out to the best plant. * The ancestral species of the genus Cucurbita were present in the Americas before the arrival of humans.

It is commonly cultivated in Japan where it gives its name to a particular construction technique, burdock piling. The dried root of one year old plants is the official herb, but the leaves and fruits can also be used.

The wood has a density of about 1170 kg/m³. The leaves are bipinnate, with 3–6 pairs of pinnulae and 10–30 pairs of leaflets each, tomentose, rachis with a gland at the bottom of the last pair of pinnulae.

* A fibre obtained from the stems is used in papermaking. * A nutritious starch is obtained from the root. * The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus. * The flowers are demulcent, diuretic and emollient.

* Lilac or rosy-purple wonderfully fragrant 1/2" flowers in early spring; red fruit in June; may be evergreen or nearly so; native to Europe and western Asia. The common name is Mezereon .

* Wild Prairie Rose is the state flower of the U.S. states of Iowa and North Dakota. * 1" flowers in large or small clusters. * The fruit is being investigated as a food that is capable of reducing the incidence of cancer and also as a means of halting...

In good quality, well-drained soil with plenty of moisture the tree grows very quickly, easily reaching 5 metres within a few years. * Schotia brachypetala or weeping boer-bean is a leguminous flowering tree in the family Fabaceae (bean family/pod-bearing...

* The yellow rays are strongly downturned and the disk is dark brown. The basal leaves are long and slender or very narrowly lanceolate. Echinacea paradoxa is native to Missouri , Arkansas , Oklahoma , and Texas , and is listed as threatened in Arkansas.