Nitrogen Fixing Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Lubbock

* Resinous pustules on the plant contain 'amorpha', a contact and stomachic insecticide that also acts as an insect repellent. * The roots can grow deeper than 4 feet (1.2m). This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and...

Readily eaten by grazing animals. Experimentally, it has demonstrated antitumor activity against Walker-256 carcinosarcoma and is also reportedly effective in lowering blood cholesterol levels.

* They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods. * Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance.

* Shiny green leaves. * This is an excellent pioneer species for re-establishing woodlands on disused farmland, difficult sites etc. * Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it also...

* Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries. Japonicum contains the isoflavone glycoside sophoricoside. * A yellow dye is obtained from the seedpods and the flowers * S.

It grows naturally in wetlands, near flowing bodies of water, sand dunes , fields, hillsides, pine barrens , and in both needleleaf and mixed-broadleaf forests. Specimens in wetter areas are more tree-like with bigger leaves.

The flowers are a very good source, when used as a body soap they leave behind a pleasant perfume on the skin. This soap is very good at removing dirt, though it does not remove oils very well.

* A deliciously scented essential oil, it has a fragrance of violets. * An essential oil called Cassie is distilled from the flowers. * While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern...

Common names include Texas Mountain Laurel , Texas Mescalbean , Frijolito , and Frijolillo . * A yellow dye is obtained from the wood. * An evergreen shrub with compound leaves, 1" violet-blue fragrant flowers in 2-3" pendulous clusters; pods 1-7"; seeds...

* Shiny green leaves. * This is an excellent pioneer species for re-establishing woodlands on disused farmland, difficult sites etc. * Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it also...

* It is also extremely vigorous when young, often growing over a metre per year. * Makes a good screen or hedge in warm temperate areas. * The yellow flowers appear in early spring and late winter.

It can be grafted onto Caragana or Laburnum species. The ends of branches narrow to spines. * Halimodendron is a monotypic genus of legume containing the single species Halimodendron halodendron , which is known by several common names, including common...

* An easily grown plant, succeeding in any moderately good soil in a sunny position. This species is very susceptible to slug damage. Plants are hardy to about -25°c. This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria...

* This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most formidably armed of temperate trees. Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing...

* Extremely hardy--a plant lifted from a pot in December spent the winter in zone 5 with its bare rootball frozen to the turf--still bloomed well in the spring; bright yellow flowers in spring; small bright green compound leaves.

Readily eaten by grazing animals. Experimentally, it has demonstrated antitumor activity against Walker-256 carcinosarcoma and is also reportedly effective in lowering blood cholesterol levels.

It can even be buried in sand and find its way to the surface. * Small, gray-green compound leaves, light yellow flowers in May and June; native to Siberia and northern China; Hortus says this species only gets 3' tall and has a spreading habit; may vary...

Noxious weed in California. * Appealing silvery-green leaves; small but fragrant flowers; likes sun; a tough plant, doesn't mind drought, or poor soil, very salt-tolerant; native over a wide swathe of southern Europe east to the Himalayas.

It is native to eastern North America , from southern Quebec south to the extreme north of Georgia , and west to Minnesota . The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm broad, with a modified dentate, pinnately lobed margin;...

Rill erosion that exposes the roots stimulates root suckering there by creating a denser growth. It is useful for vegetating acid soils with a pH of 3.5 to 4.0, as well as alkaline soils of a pH 8.0. Bristly locust is especially adapted to stabilizing...

It has also been described as a "conflict tree" in that it is both promoted for forage production and spreads like a weed in some places. * During the 1970s and 1980s it was promoted as a "miracle tree" for its multiple uses.

* The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. Muricata has been used in plantations with resultant growth rates higher than in the wild . * The Bishop Pine ( Pinus muricata ) is a pine with a very restricted range: mostly California , USA , including some...

* A wax on the fruit is obtained by simmering the fruit in hot water and skimming off the wax as it rises to the surface. It grows at moderate altitudes of 1,300-2,600 m, on dry soils, often together with Pinus monophylla .

They are best used with Foeniculum vulgare seeds in order to counteract a tendency to cause gripe. The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. The seeds have been soaked in water until they are mucilaginous and then swallowed as a treatment for sore...

Ponderosa subsp. Washoensis populations do not warrant distinction as a variety or even a subspecies of P. * Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine.

* A wax on the fruit is obtained by simmering the fruit in hot water and skimming off the wax as it rises to the surface. It grows at moderate altitudes of 1,300-2,600 m, on dry soils, often together with Pinus monophylla .

* Enterolobium cyclocarpum, commonly known as guanacaste, caro caro, or elephant-ear tree, is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to tropical regions of the Americas, from central Mexico south to northern Brazil (Roraima)...