Honey Bee Food Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Fort Worth

* The fruit contains about 2.8% dry weight vitamin C. * 2" pinkish-purple flowers; scarlet hips to 1/2"; red branches; spreads into dense thickets by suckering from roots.

The fruit is a red rose hip which may be over a centimeter long. The inflorescence is a cyme of up a few fragrant flowers with five petals in any shade of pink and measuring up to 2.5 centimeters in length.

Despite its Latin name, which means German or Germanic Medlar, it is indigenous to southwest Asia and also southeastern Europe , mostly the Black Sea coasts of modern Turkey, and was introduced to Germany by the Romans .

The fruit is up to 11mm in diameter and is borne in small clusters. Scarifying the seed before stratifying it might reduce this time. It may still take another 18 months to germinate.

* The fruit is being investigated as a food that is capable of reducing the incidence of cancer and also as a means of halting or reversing the growth of cancers. * The name Rosa arkansana comes from the Arkansas River in Colorado.

* The plant is high in certain antioxidants. The syrup is used as a nutritional supplement, especially for babies. * Used as understock for hybrid tea roses. * The dried leaves are used as a tea substitute.

Fruit from the typical species is about 1cm in diameter, though there are sub-species and cultivated forms with considerably larger fruits. A sour taste, but the fruit is palatable.

Vaccinium membranceum is fire adapted. The leaves and stems of the huckleberry are resistant to low-intensity fires, and if burned away they will resprout vigorously from rhizomes buried under the soil.

* A very poular tree for bonsai due to its dwarf size and small fruit.

* The fruit can be eaten raw, cooked in pies, cakes etc or fermented into cider. * 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...

* There are more than 7,500 known cultivars of apples, resulting in a range of desired characteristics. * At least 55 million tonnes of apples were grown worldwide in 2005, with a value of about $10 billion.

* 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 or small tree (10–30 ft tall) which grows wild along streams and ravines in Texas , New Mexico , Oklahoma...

* The seed is eaten raw or cooked. A sweet taste, it is an important item of food for the Indians in S. Arizona and northern Mexico and is sold in the local markets there. * Emory oak ( Quercus emoryi ) is a species of oak common in Arizona , New Mexico...

Fruit from the typical species is about 1cm in diameter, though there are sub-species and cultivated forms with considerably larger fruits. A sour taste, but the fruit is palatable.

It differs from Citrus in having deciduous, compound leaves , and pubescent (downy) fruit. It is native to northern China and Korea , and is also known as the Chinese Bitter Orange.

* Nigella sativa oil contains an abundance of conjugated linoleic (18:2) acid, thymoquinone, nigellone (dithymoquinone), melanthin, nigilline, damascenine, and tannins. There is a belief that eating the seed will make a woman's breasts plumper.

In tropical climates, it will flower all year round. The leaves are alternate, palmately five-lobed like a spread hand (sometimes three or seven lobes), 10–18 cm long and wide. The fruit is an oval orange-yellow berry 6 cm long by 4 cm in diameter,...

* Rubus leucodermis (blackcap raspberry, black raspberry, whitebark raspberry, or blue raspberry,) is a species of Rubus native to western North America, from British Columbia, Canada south to California, New Mexico and Mexico.

* Yields an essential oil called 'Abietine'. * Pale blue-green needles to 12", cones to 10"; of loose, open habit; edible seeds; native to California. It is also known as Foothill Pine , Ghost Pine , California Foothill Pine , Bull Pine and Nut Pine .

* Running serviceberry is a deciduous, early-flowering, stoloniferous shrub which typically suckers and spreads to form thickets. * The fruit is sweet and juicy with a good flavour that has a hint of apple.

* Carolina buckthorn is a deciduous shrub or small tree that typically grows to 10-15' (infrequently to 30') tall. There is a local disjunct population in Mexico as well. It is noted for its bright shiny green leaves and edible fruits.

This tree normally reaches 20–30 ft (6.1–9.1 m), but can grow as tall as 50 ft (15 m). * The indigenous peoples of California and southwestern North America used parts of Prosopis glandulosa as a medicinal plant, food source, building and tools material,...

* Chokecherry is also used to craft wine in the western United States mainly in the Dakotas and Utah as well as in Manitoba, Canada. * The bark of chokecherry root was once made into an asperous-textured concoction used to ward off or treat colds, fever...

The root is used in the treatment of coughs. * The leaves are used in the treatment of fevers. They are used internally in the treatment of poor appetite and digestion, and menstrual complaints arising from constrained liver energy.

* The seed is eaten raw or cooked. A sweet taste, it is an important item of food for the Indians in S. Arizona and northern Mexico and is sold in the local markets there. * Emory oak ( Quercus emoryi ) is a species of oak common in Arizona , New Mexico...

It can be used as a staple food crop in either savoury or sweet dishes. It has a floury texture and a mild, somewhat creamy flavour. They prefer a poor dry soil and tolerate cool moist conditions.

* A shrub or small tree with bright green compound leaves; yellow-white flowers in 4-6" flat-topped clusters, followed by quantities of dark blue-black berries used in jelly, pie, and wine; native to Pacific Northwest.