Honey Bee Food Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Alabama

It is used in preserves. Known for its 1/2-3/4 in. * Edible Uses: Fruit - cooked. Diameter, red fruits that are pleasantly flavored and used as a substitute for limes. * A tree to 60 ft.

* A low shrub found on dry slopes and prairies. * The name Rosa arkansana comes from the Arkansas River in Colorado. * 1" flowers in large or small clusters. * The fruit is being investigated as a food that is capable of reducing the incidence of cancer...

* They are long-lived trees, commencing to bear seeds when about 30 years old and usually producing heavy crops each year. * The fruit is occasionally eaten raw but more often used in preserves.

* The huckleberry is the official state fruit of Idaho, with this particular species assumed to be the huckleberry in question. * Vaccinium membranaceum is a species within the group of Vaccinium commonly referred to as huckleberry.

* 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.

Evolutionarily speaking the genus is relatively recent in origin as no species within the genus is genetically isolated from all the other species. * Requires a rich, well-drained moisture retentive soil and a very warm, sunny and sheltered position.

In tropical climates, it will flower all year round. The fruit is an oval orange-yellow berry 6 cm long by 4 cm in diameter, containing numerous seeds ; it is eaten, and the seeds spread by mammals and birds .

* The plant is high in certain antioxidants. * Used as understock for hybrid tea roses. * During World War II in the United States Rosa canina was planted in victory gardens. The syrup is used as a nutritional supplement, especially for babies.

* An extremely hardy apple with very fragrant white flowers, dark red or yellow fruits, 3/8" (but variable), persisting into winter; of full rounded habit; formerly much used in hybridizing to improve hardiness; native to northeast Asia.

Once established, it succeeds in excessively moist soils and also tolerates drought. Stored seed can be very slow and erratic to germinate, it should be warm stratified for 3 months at 15°c and then cold stratified for another 3 months at 4°c.

Tolerates light shade, though it fruits better in a sunny position. Dislikes dry soils. If you have sufficient seed it can be sown in an outdoor seedbed. * Sorbus sitchensis, also known as Sitka mountain-ash, is a small shrub of northwestern North America.

An infusion has been taken by women when their periods are unusually long. An infusion is used internally in the treatment of stomach complaints, diarrhoea and dysentery, anaemia, the spitting up of blood and to treat vomiting.

Oregon-grape is resistant to summer drought, tolerates poor soils, and does not create excessive leaf litter. Dark green, violet and dark blue-purple dyes are obtained from the fruit.

The branchlets are a purplish-brown colour, and are slender and sparsely villous. * Corylus chinensis, common names Chinese filbert and Chinese Hazel, is a deciduous tree native to western China.

The IUCN considers it as one of the world's 100 worst invasive species outside its native habitat range. * Historically, it was a very important wild food plant because it fruits even during drought years.

It is reported that freezing and thawing will greatly mitigate the bitterness and make the hips much more palatable. * Mostly solitary rose-pink flowers, 1 1/2-2 1/2'; round hips to about 1", bright red; native to the Rocky Mountains, California to Alaska.

* The seed can be eaten raw or roasted and used in breads, cakes, biscuits, sweets etc. * Our seed is collected from the variety Jefferson which is open pollinated by the varieties Theta and Yamhill.

It infrequently grows as a small tree. The leaves are alternate, 2–7 cm long and 1–3.5 cm broad, oval to obovate , acuminate with irregularly serrate margins, rugose , dark green, pubescent above and tomentose below, with glandular petioles .

It grows in dry upland habitats, including open woodlands, alvars, and sandy near-shore habitats. * Celtis tenuifolia, the Dwarf Hackberry or Georgia Hackberry is a shrub or small tree 2 to 12 meters high.

* The fruit is eaten raw, cooked or dried for later use. * The flowers are astringent and are used to reduce bleeding and treat problems of the gastro-intestinal tract, especially diarrhoea, colitis and irritable bowel syndrome.

* A shrub or small tree, thick-shelled round nuts, 3/4"; native to south central U.S. and northern Mexico. * Juglans microcarpa , known also as the Texas Walnut or the Little Black Walnut (literally the Jupiter's acorn with small nuts) is a large shrub...

* An extremely hardy apple with very fragrant white flowers, dark red or yellow fruits, 3/8" (but variable), persisting into winter; of full rounded habit; formerly much used in hybridizing to improve hardiness; native to northeast Asia.

The tree typically grows to 12-15 m, but can reach 35 m in height. * The Gray Pine ( Pinus sabineana ) is a pine endemic to California in the United States ; historically and internationally, the common name has been more frequently termed Digger Pine...

* A dense, low-growing, sometimes prostrate species; varies from seed; "of great beauty" (Dirr); 3" needles; native to alpine zone of Japan, also Korea, Manchuria, Sakhalin. Pumila , reaching 8–10 m tall on occasion.

The nut oil contains 11.5% of the unusual fatty acid pinolenic acid (cis–5–cis–9–cis–12 octadecatrienoic acid). * The seeds are extensively harvested and sold as pine nuts, particularly in northeastern China; it is the most widely traded pine...

Evolutionarily speaking the genus is relatively recent in origin as no species within the genus is genetically isolated from all the other species. * Requires a rich, well-drained moisture retentive soil and a very warm, sunny and sheltered position.

* The fruits are eaten by birds (birds do not taste astringency and feed on them readily), which then disperse the seeds in their droppings. They are most commonly found in wet woods and swamps.