Medicinal Plant Seeds For Sale In Fremont

* Greater celandine has an erect habit, and may reach 30 to 120 cm high. Each has an elaiosome , which attracts ants to disperse the seeds ( myrmecochory ). The sap is yellow to orange.The flowers consist of four yellow petals , each about 1 cm long,...

* The leaves also contain rhodoxanthin, amentoflavone, quercetin, myricetin, carotene, xanthophyll and ascorbic acid. It is called ce bai in Chinese. * This plant is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental...

* Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe . In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu".

* Pseudolarix is a monotypic genus of conifer in the family Pinaceae. * In Europe growth is most successful in the Mediterranean region with notable specimens in northern Italy; further north in the United Kingdom it will grow, but only very slowly due...

Mixed with boiling water they are used in the treatment of haemopytsis, nose bleeds, haematemesis, blood in stools, metrorrhagia, gonorrhoea and other venereal diseases. The root or the fruit is decocted as a contraceptive.

* So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure.

The common name "Blueberry haw" refers to the appearance of the fruit, which are almost blue, and not to their taste. * Crataegus brachyacantha is one of the "black-fruited" species of hawthorn , but it is only very distantly related to the other black-fruited...

It is also sometimes called moon daisy or dog daisy. It is one of a number of plants to be called by the common name daisy . * The oxeye daisy ( Leucanthemum vulgare , syn. * A distilled water made from the flowers is an effective eye lotion in the treatment...

* Taxus chinensis is a species of yew. The tree is up to 14 m (46 ft) tall and wide and bushy when cultivated. The underside of each leaf has two broad yellow stripes and is densely covered with minute projections.

) is a flowering evergreen minor hardwood tree / shrub , with fuzzy, flannel-like leaves and colorful blossoms. * The California flannelbush ( Fremontodendron californicum , syn. Wood - fine-grained, hard to soft, heavy.

* In cultivation they tend to grow on a single stem that is often leaning and bare towards the bottom, but with dense foliage on the upper half. * Cephalotaxus fortunei, commonly called the Chinese Plum Yew, simply Plum Yew, Chinese Cowtail Pine or in...

* Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

The thorns of Gleditsia sinensis LAM. The thorns of Gleditsia sinensis are used as a medicinal herb in China and Korea and may have antitumor properties. * Thorns showed antibacterial activity against a Gram-positive bacterium Xanthomonas vesicatoria...

* Spiny stems, leaves to 30" long, white flowers. * It is an upright deciduous small tree or shrub growing up to 6 m in height, native to eastern Russia , China , Korea , and Japan.

The dainty flowers, small red fruit, and beautiful bark add to the ornamental value of this species. * Crataegus marshallii is a species of hawthorn known by the common name parsley haw .

* A deciduous tree widely cultivated in parts of China, sometimes grown in southern California. Camptotheca is used to make Irinotecan , Topotecan , 9-Aminocamptothecin , and camptothecin -1 (CPT-1).

* So called because the roots were once ground for snuff. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure.

* Ribwort plantain is a safe and effective treatment for bleeding, it quickly staunches blood flow and encourages the repair of damaged tissue. A tea from the leaves is used as a highly effective cough medicine.

* Common Hogweed ( Heracleum sphondylium ) is an herbaceous biennial plant of the family Apiaceae , which grows in the prairies of Eurasia. Umbelliferous plants are so named because of the umbrella-like arrangement of flowers they produce.

* Taxus cuspidata ( Japanese Yew or Spreading Yew ) is a member of the genus Taxus , native to Japan , Korea , northeast China and the extreme southeast of Russia . * Modern research has shown that yew trees contain the substance 'taxol' in their shoots...

It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and ulcers in the mouth. * An excrescence produced on the leaf by an insect Melaphis chinensis or M.

* Myrtus, with the common name myrtle, is a genus of flowering plants in the family Myrtaceae. * Myrtle in a wedding bouquet is a general European custom. Crowns of myrtle are used in the Ukrainian wedding ceremony.

A red to brown dye can be obtained from the root bark. * Bunches of the tied stems have been used as rough brooms. It has thin and smooth bark. It is found in Nebraska, western Oklahoma, southwestern South Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico,...

* Many 3" nodding blue, red, purple, or white nodding flowers on a branching stem; forms basal rosette of 20" leaves; monocarpic--blooms and dies; native to eastern Himalayas, western China.

* Gentiana lutea ( Great Yellow Gentian ) is a species of gentian native to the mountains of central and southern Europe . It contains some of the most bitter compounds known and is used as a scientific basis for measuring bitterness.

* Juniperus osteosperma ( Utah Juniper ; syn. It grows at moderate altitudes of 1,300-2,600 m, on dry soils, often together with Pinus monophylla . Utahensis ) is a shrub or small tree reaching 3-6 m (rarely to 9 m) tall.

* Artemisia vulgaris ( mugwort or common wormwood ) is one of several species in the genus Artemisia which have common names that include the word mugwort. Aromatic and somewhat bitter.