Nitrogen Fixing Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Knoxville

It makes a valuable fuel and is occasionally used in the manufacture of small articles for domestic and industrial use. * Bunches of the tied stems have been used as rough brooms. A red to brown dye can be obtained from the root bark.

The young shoots are used in making a refreshing cold drink. * The Psoralea glandulosa, also called wallwa, culen or St. Augustine grass is a perennial plant belonging to the family of Fabaceae .

* The whole plant, known as ning tiao, is used in the treatment of cancer of the breast, and the orifice to the womb, and for dysmenorrhoea and other gynaecological problems. * Extremely hardy--a plant lifted from a pot in December spent the winter in...

* Sweet pea ( Lathyrus odoratus ) is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae ( legumes ), native to the eastern Mediterranean region from Sicily east to Crete .

The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action. * The leaves and seedpods are cathartic, diuretic and vermifuge. The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested when fully ripe in the autumn.

* Sweet pea ( Lathyrus odoratus ) is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family Fabaceae ( legumes ), native to the eastern Mediterranean region from Sicily east to Crete .

Mature bushes in the wild yield about 650g of fruit over 2 - 3 pickings. * Elaeagnus umbellata , also referred to as Japanese Silverberry , Umbellate Oleaster or Autumn-olive , is a species of Elaeagnus native to eastern Asia from the Himalayas east to...

However, this plant will not survive shoot destruction indefinitely. This is most rapid in the first season after a fire. * The fruit is a source of food for a lot of bird species, including the Northern Bobwhite Quail and the Wild Turkey .

* A shrub; red flowers in racemes. * The leaves and flowers are boiled and eaten.

* A deliciously scented essential oil, it has a fragrance of violets. * While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia.

* All parts of the plant are rich in saponins - when crushed and mixed with water they produce a good lather which is an effective and gentle soap. The aromatic evergreen leaves are alternately arranged, each up to 8 centimeters long.

Will produce a complete cover in a few months. The common name is Bird's-foot Trefoil (or similar, such as "birdsfoot trefoil"), though the common name is often also applied to other members of the genus.

* The pulp in the seedpods of carob is very nutritious and, due to its high sugar content, sweet-tasting and mildly laxative. * A tree of rounded habit with evergreen compound leaves; small red flowers in racemes in spring.

* All parts of the plant are rich in saponins - when crushed and mixed with water they produce a good lather which is an effective and gentle soap. The aromatic evergreen leaves are alternately arranged, each up to 8 centimeters long.

It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland . * The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised. * Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow...

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

It is still used for most of the same purposes in modern herbalism. * Comptonia is a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina ) in the family Myricaceae , order Fagales .

Taste trials consistently place this root very highly, it is certainly one of our favourites. * Lathyrus tuberosus, also known as the tuberous pea, tuberous vetchling, earthnut pea, or aardaker, is a small, climbing perennial plant, native in moist temperate...

* The fruit is high in saponins and is used as a soap for washing fabrics and thebody. Dioica, Kentucky Coffee Tree; planted for ornament and for timber; doubly compound leaves; substantial branches; flowers in clusters at the ends of branches; fruit...

* The inflorescence is a raceme of generally pea-like yellow flowers about 3 centimeters long. The leaves are made up of many pairs of slightly hairy oval-shaped leaflets, each up to about 3 centimeters long.

* Elaeagnus angustifolia ( Russian Silverberry , Oleaster , or Russian-olive ) is a species of Elaeagnus , native to western and central Asia , from southern Russia and Kazakhstan to Turkey and Iran .

Cones are small, rectangular and about 1 centimetre across. * Flowers are reddish-brown in the male and red in the female. * The River Oak is an attractive evergreen tree with fine greyish green needle-like foliage that grows to a height of 60 metres...

It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland . * The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised. * Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow...

* The fruit is high in saponins and is used as a soap for washing fabrics and thebody. Dioica, Kentucky Coffee Tree; planted for ornament and for timber; doubly compound leaves; substantial branches; flowers in clusters at the ends of branches; fruit...

Will produce a complete cover in a few months. The common name is Bird's-foot Trefoil (or similar, such as "birdsfoot trefoil"), though the common name is often also applied to other members of the genus.

* 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.

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. Blooms early to mid season. Requires an acid to neutral soil. Plants are hardy to about -25°c.