Nitrogen Fixing Plant Seeds For Sale In Honolulu

* Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland habitats, as well as in fields, woodland margins,...

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

The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. The seedpods can also be used and are milder but slower in their action. The root is cardiac and febrifuge. They are best used with Foeniculum vulgare seeds in order to counteract a tendency to cause gripe.

Used for bearings, turnery, cabinet work, ornamental uses etc. * Sophora is one of the four genera of native legumes in New Zealand; the other three are Carmichaelia , Clianthus , and Montigena .Flowering of Kowhai is staggered, from July through to November,...

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. * Gleditsia caspica ( Caspian Locust or Persian Honeylocust ) is a species of Gleditsia native to western Asia...

Betula is the genus for birch, and the species name refers to the birch-like leaves. * This shrub has a typical size of three to five meters - 9-15 feet in height. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and...

* Used to make the strong, springy curved "enju wood" handle used on the traditional Japanese woodworking adze, called the chouna. * Grown for its white flowers, borne in late summer after most other flowering trees have long finished flowering.

The young shoots are used in making a refreshing cold drink. This species contains essential oils , tannins , gums and resins . * The leaves are used as a tea substitute. * The Psoralea glandulosa, also called wallwa, culen or St. Augustine grass is a...

* 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.

Superorder: Rosanae Takht. Agardh subclass: Magnoliidae Novak ex Takht. * class: Equisetopsida C. Order: Fabales Bromhead family: Fabaceae Lindl. Species: !Amorpha georgiana Wilbur

* During the 1970s and 1980s it was promoted as a "miracle tree" for its multiple uses. * The legume provides an excellent source of high protein cattle fodder. It is also efficient in nitrogen fixation, at more than 500 kg/ha/year.

Typically, it has a moderate to fast growth rate, being able to grow one to three feet during the first year after trimming. * Caragana arborescens , or Caragana or Siberian peashrub or Siberian peashrub , is a species of legume .

* The tree produces long flat pods that hang vertically. These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch at the tip. * The leaves appear shortly after the first flowers emerge.

* It has very small purple flowers which are grouped in racemes . * Plants have an extensive root system, they tolerate poor dry soils and are also wind resistant, they are used as a windbreak and also to prevent soil erosion.

* Laburnum alpinum (Scottish Laburnum) is a leguminous flowering tree. * Small specimen tree or shrub for location around residential homes. Good background plant. Succeeds in cold exposed situations and tolerates industrial pollution.

Used for pasture, soil stabilization wildlife forage, hay. Thrives in moist soil conditions, Prefers medium fertility soils with a pH between 6.0 - 6.5. Plants produce uncertain numbers of 4 leafed clovers considered lucky.

* Lupinus albicaulis is a species of lupine known by the common name sickle-keel lupine . The fruit is a silky-hairy legume pod up to 5 centimeters long containing several seeds. Fast growing, showy color.

* 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.

* Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland habitats, as well as in fields, woodland margins,...

* The aromatic fruits and leaves are used either fresh or dried to flavour soups, stews etc. * Foliage, deciduous, is fragrant when crushed, and has been used medicinally; tiny fruits; branches once used in England to flavor "gale beer"; native to wet...

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 soils with active rill and gully erosion.

* It is considered to be a desirable plant in the garden due to its deep blue to violet spring flowers, the attractive light green compound leaves, and also for the somewhat unusual oblong fruits that emerge in the late summer.

* The pulp in the seedpods of carob is very nutritious and, due to its high sugar content, sweet-tasting and mildly laxative. * Carobs are also known as St. John's bread because, according to tradition of some Christians, St. John the Baptist subsisted...

The leaves are shiny green, ovoid, 3-8 cm long and 2-6 cm broad. * A shrub; shiny dark green leaves to 3" long; Native to Europe. * An orange-red to brown dye can be obtained from the bark.

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

* An essential oil obtained from the flowers is used in perfumery. * Make sure to water during the hot months to keep it from fading, and pick off dead flowers to keep the plant blooming till the first frosts of fall.

* The pulp in the seedpods of carob is very nutritious and, due to its high sugar content, sweet-tasting and mildly laxative. * Carobs are also known as St. John's bread because, according to tradition of some Christians, St. John the Baptist subsisted...