Honey Bee Food Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Colorado Springs

* Forestfarm states on their website: "Polished green leaves and red & yellow fruits" (Hillier) distinguish this small (10-20') tree/shrub; "good street or park trees, often with picturesque crowns & attractive fall foliage" (Krussmann).

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".

* Black raspberries are high in anthocyanins. * The common wild black raspberry; 1/2" white flowers followed by clusters of delicious shiny black fruit; arching canes root where the tips touch ground.

* 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; suckers to form thickets; native to woods, dunes, and prairies from Nova...

* In Mexican Spanish, the plant is called nopal, while the fruit is called tuna, which are names also used in American English, especially as culinary terms. The fruits are up to 10cm long and 9cm wide.

A good mature tree will produce commercial timber used for furniture and crates. It has a swollen base that tapers to a long, clear bole and its root system is periodically under water.

* Nigella sativa oil contains an abundance of conjugated linoleic (18:2) acid, thymoquinone, nigellone (dithymoquinone), melanthin, nigilline, damascenine, and tannins. Nigella is also used in Armenian string cheese, a braided string cheese called Majdouleh...

This dogwood may approach five meters in height at maximum. This is a shrub or small tree which is endemic to northern California , where it grows along streambanks in the Cascades , Sierra Nevada , and the coastal mountain ranges.

* 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; suckers to form thickets; native to woods, dunes, and prairies from Nova...

It typically grows in dry hills at moderate altitudes. * Emory oak ( Quercus emoryi ) is a species of oak common in Arizona , New Mexico and western Texas ( Big Bend National Park ), USA , and northern Mexico south to Durango and San Luis Potosi .

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 . * A woody vine capable of growing to 15–20 m high where supporting trees are available.

* Seed - best sown as soon as it is ripe in a cold frame. * Sorbus sitchensis, also known as Sitka mountain-ash, is a small shrub of northwestern North America. * A multistemmed shrub, it is endemic to northwestern North America, from the Pacific coast...

* A refreshing tea can be made from the leaves - it is high in vitamin C. A black raspberry, it is a very well flavoured fruit that can also be dried for winter use. * It is closely related to the eastern black raspberry Rubus occidentalis.

It is usually not found among other hackberries, although when other hackberry species occur in proximity to dwarf hackberry, intermediate forms may occur. It is native to eastern North America, but is very uncommon north of the Ohio River.

* The flowers are bright yellow, and pea-like, which cover the tree in late spring. * Parkinsonia florida, the blue palo verde (syn. * The blue palo verde is the state tree of Arizona.

It is sometimes used for furniture because it takes a high polish. The bark can also be made into a string. It is often found in recently disturbed areas, open woods, on nutrient-rich soil.

It is frequently used in the treatment of insomnia, epilepsy, hysteria etc. The Cherokee in the Tennessee area called it ocoee ; the Ocoee River and valley are named after this plant, which is the Tennessee State Wildflower .

* A decoction of the peeled stems has been drunk in the treatment of backaches. Like the American mountain-ash (Sorbus Americana), the showy mountain-ash has pinnately compound leaves and often large clusters of flowers and fruits.

* Nigella sativa oil contains an abundance of conjugated linoleic (18:2) acid, thymoquinone, nigellone (dithymoquinone), melanthin, nigilline, damascenine, and tannins. Nigella is also used in Armenian string cheese, a braided string cheese called Majdouleh...

* Over most of the range, acorns fall in October. * A deciduous native of California; 3" leaves. * Its thick, ridged bark is characteristic and evokes alligator hide. * The Spaniards, because the tree looked like the white oaks in Europe, called the tree...

Flowers bloom in early spring (April). It infrequently grows as a small tree. This is a dense, twiggy, deciduous shrub that typically grows to 6-10' tall but spreads to 15' wide. It is commonly called downy cherry in recognition of its downy leaves, downy...

* The seed is up to 25mm long. * The pinon pine (Pinus edulis) is the state tree of New Mexico. Rich in oil, protein and thiamine. * About 450,000 kilos of the seeds are sold in American markets each year.

* 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 that typically only grows to 13-20 feet (4-6 m) tall and...

Flowers bloom in early spring (April). It infrequently grows as a small tree. This is a dense, twiggy, deciduous shrub that typically grows to 6-10' tall but spreads to 15' wide. It is commonly called downy cherry in recognition of its downy leaves, downy...

* Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata) is probably the most distinctive of all the hickories because of its loose-plated bark. * Carya ovata, the Shagbark Hickory, is a common hickory in the eastern United States and southeast Canada.

A very pleasant flavour, it is slightly mealy but juicy and can be eaten in quantity as a dessert fruit. There are up to five fairly large seeds in the centre of the fruit, these often stick together and so the effect is of eating a cherry-like fruit...

* The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. * 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;...