Plant With Edible Parts Seeds For Sale In Worcester

It is by no means a disagreeable vegetable. The bulb is dried and powdered and then used for sizing cloth, bookbinding etc. * The root contains about 30% gum (an arabinic acid derivative) and this makes a goodquality glue.

It is also cultivated and naturalized in East Asia and in scattered locations in North America. It is native to the Mediterranean region. In addition, the plant contains various antioxidants (in stem, leaf, and root tissues) that have potential long-term...

Unlike many other members of the genus, it has no prickles. It is the larval host and a nectar source for the yellow-banded sphinx butterfly. * However, the wild thimbleberries can be eaten raw or dried and can be made into a jam which is sold as a local...

In the United States it may also be known as "Silver Dollars," also because of the seed pods. * A good bee and butterfly plant. In Denmark it is known as Judaspenge and in The Netherlands as Judaspenning (coins of Judas) because of its resemblance to...

* In Europe it was believed that the plant could cure alcoholism . * Early America settlers boiled parts of the plant to make into candy and they also used it as an ingredient in cake .

It is native to the southeastern United States , ranging from Florida north to eastern North Carolina , and west to eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas . * This common, fan-shaped palm is a small shrub, 5-10 ft.

* In southern Patagonia it grows to a height of up to 30 m (100 ft), and attains a trunk diameter of 1.5 m (5 ft). * The leaves are dark green, elliptic toothed and 2–4 cm long, with irregularly lobed margins, and turn to yellow and reddish tones in...

The skin (or pellicle) of the seed is easily peeled. * The nuts also provide a significant food source for wildlife. * Chinese chestnuts have evolved over a long period of time in coexistence with the bark fungal disease chestnut blight and have evolved...

Germination should take place within 2 weeks. Peanut shells are used in the manufacture of plastic, wallboard, abrasives, fuel, cellulose (used in rayon and paper) and mucilage (glue).

The seed is the part of the plant used medicinally. Make tea by pouring boiling water over 2 teaspoons of ground seed. The extract consists of about 65–80% silymarin (a flavonolignan complex) and 20–35% fatty acids, including linoleic acid.

Seed can also be started indoors for an earlier harvest. Grow to 40 pounds. Black Diamond Watermelons have dark green skin with bluish cast. Excellent late season home garden variety.

The skin (or pellicle) of the seed is easily peeled. * The nuts also provide a significant food source for wildlife. * Chinese chestnuts have evolved over a long period of time in coexistence with the bark fungal disease chestnut blight and have evolved...

* It is closely related to the eastern black raspberry Rubus occidentalis. While the crown is perennial, the canes are biennial, growing vegetatively one year, flowering and fruiting the second, and then dying.

* Greater Burdock is rather tall, reaching as much as 9 feet (2.7 m). * This species is native to the temperate regions of the old world, from Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, and from the British Isles through Russia, and the Middle East to China and...

A liquorice-like flavour, they can be used as a flavouring in mixed salads. They are often crystallised in sugar and used as sweets and cake decorations. * The essential oil of the roots of Angelica archangelica contains ?-terebangelene, C10H16, and other...

This ''icebox'' watermelon has crisp and wonderfully sweet red flesh. Everything you need to get your plants off to a great start! When plants are well established thin to 2 to each hill.

Interesting basil with large, glossy, dark purple-red leaves and mild, sweet taste. Upright, bushy plants with lavender-blue spikes. Certified Organic Seed.

Most people love to grow and eat big, luscious, juiicy extra sweet melons and that is exactly what you'll get with Magnifisweet. These delicious oval-shaped fruit weigh 5-6 pounds with sweet, moist salmon-colored flesh.

* Prosopis chilensis , carob , is a species of South American legume family which dwells mainly central Chile, south of Peru , Andean- Chaco ecotone in Argentina . It lies between 500-1850 m It is a medium low tree, no more than 3-12 m in height and 6...

* The ground up seed can also be mixed with water and drunk as a refreshing beverage. * Good for saline soils;Native from Washington east to S. The ashes can be used like baking soda.

Widely used within its range as a wetland mitigation species. Then it grows erect and bears leaf blades which may be flat or folded. It is a good forage crop for livestock and wildlife especially for wetter sites.

It is an important symbol in Chinese culture. It was first described by Henry Charles Andrews . * Paeonia suffruticosa , the tree peony , is a species of peony native to China . * Dramatic purplish, rose pink, or white flowers with a magenta blotch at...

A liquorice-like flavour, they can be used as a flavouring in mixed salads. They are often crystallised in sugar and used as sweets and cake decorations. * The essential oil of the roots of Angelica archangelica contains ?-terebangelene, C10H16, and other...

* Nigella sativa oil contains an abundance of conjugated linoleic (18:2) acid, thymoquinone, nigellone (dithymoquinone), melanthin, nigilline, damascenine, and tannins. Nigella is also used in Armenian string cheese, a braided string cheese called Majdouleh...

* The American Chestnut is a prolific bearer of nuts , usually with three nuts enclosed in each spiny green burr. * The chestnuts are in the beech family along with beech and oak, and are not closely related to the horse-chestnut, which is in the family...

* Silver Fir is the species first used as a Christmas tree. * It is a common ingredient in many bath products, giving them their familiar pine scent. * Foliar loppings of European silver fir in Czechoslovakia have yielded 1,380 tonnes/year of essential...

* Vates Collards have dark green very tasty leaves with a mild cabbage like flavor. * They are very late to bolt and can be grown year round in mild climates. * They are quite frost tolerant and become even more flavorful after some frosty nights.