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* Alnus acuminata (also called Alder is a species of tree in the Betulaceae family. It is found in Argentina , Bolivia , Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , Guatemala , Mexico , Panama , Peru and Venezuela .

It has been widely introduced worldwide as a pasture crop, and is now also common in most grassy areas of North America and New Zealand. Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain...

Mearnsii produces copious numbers of small seeds that are not dispersed actively. Mearnsii is a tree of tall woodland and forests in subtropical and warm temperate regions. The species may resprout from basal shoots following a fire.

* It has been introduced into the United States, originally as forage for cattle. It can typically be found in forest margins, fields and roadsides. It is found to succeed better when only the surface of the soil is stirred by the scarifier and harrow...

* This species forms a small tree up to 12 metres in height and 10 metres in width. They have a sweetish-acid taste, and are a nice addition to the salad bowl. * The tree produces long flat pods that hang vertically.

An excellent fibre is obtained from the leaf stalks. The fibres are up to 50cm long, they are harvested commercially and used to make brushes, especially where these have to remain stiff in hot water or caustics.

* This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China.

* This is one of ther best species for soil stabilization and reviatalization in cold arid zones where few plants will survive. It is good fodder for animals, improves the soil, allows natural vegetation to become established, and prevents soil erosion...

* Symphoricarpos occidentalis is a woody species of flowering plant in the honeysuckle family , commonly called Western snowberry or Wolfberry (the latter not to be confused with the Lycium species of the same name).

* It has been introduced into the United States, originally as forage for cattle. It can typically be found in forest margins, fields and roadsides. It is found to succeed better when only the surface of the soil is stirred by the scarifier and harrow...

Noxious weed in California. * The plant was first described by the French botanist Jacques Labillardiere in his publications Relation du Voyage a la Recherche de la Perouse (1800) and Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen (1804).

The guanacaste is found in USDA Growth Zones 10-12. * These aggressive reproductive characteristics might be beneficially exploited in reforestation projects; on the other hand, the plant is considered an invasive species in some places.

The leaves are shiny green, ovoid, 3-8 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. * An orange-red to brown dye can be obtained from the bark. * It is a large shrub or small tree 3-12 m tall with smooth grey bark even in old age.

* Sweet marjoram is mainly used as a culinary herb, but is also medicinally valuable due to its stimulant and antispasmodic properties. It is a good general tonic, treating various disorders of the digestive and respiratory systems.

It is in flower from Jun to July. The plant prefers loamy acid and neutral soils, and can grow in very acid soils.It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade. * Pterostyrax corymbosa is a deciduous Tree growing to 12 m (39ft 4in) at a fast...

It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in July. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees, flies, beetles.The plant is self-fertile.

* The Lesser Burdock , Arctium minus , is a biennial thistle , also known as Burweed, Louse-bur, Common Burdock, and Button-bur. * The seed contains arctiin, this excites the central nervous system producing convulsions an increase in respiration and...

* The dried flower heads are used for carding wool and as a clothes brush for raising the nap on woollen cloth. * Not known in a truly wild condition. It is water soluble. * By the 20th century, teasels had been largely replaced by metal cards, which...

Paniculate thyrses terminal, apically branched, 10-20 cm, 1- or 2-ramous; rachis and pedicels glabrous or with russet short hairs; pedicels short, jointed at apex. * Many plants in this genus contain compounds of interest for their antitumour activity

* It is native to northwestern China and Japan . * It is widely used as an ornamental plant. * Buddleja davidii , (old spelling Buddleia davidii ); also called summer lilac , butterfly-bush or orange eye ) is a shrub in the Buddlejaceae family .

* Sweet marjoram is mainly used as a culinary herb, but is also medicinally valuable due to its stimulant and antispasmodic properties. It is a good general tonic, treating various disorders of the digestive and respiratory systems.

It is commonly grown throughout the northern hemisphere as a landscaping plant and ornamental . * 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;...

* The dried flower heads are used for carding wool and as a clothes brush for raising the nap on woollen cloth. * Not known in a truly wild condition. It is water soluble. * By the 20th century, teasels had been largely replaced by metal cards, which...

* It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its nitrogen-fixing nodules, while not growing large enough to compete with the intended timber crop.

* Achiote ( Bixa orellana ) is a shrub or small tree from the tropical region of the Americas . * The species is also planted as an ornamental, particularly the varieties with bright pink pods.

* This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China.

* 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...