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Chinese Tallow Tree Sapium sebiferum     - Triadica sebifera
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

Introduced to the United States, the tree is native to eastern Asia , and is most commonly associated with eastern China , Taiwan , and Japan . The plant sap and leaves are reputed to be toxic, and decaying leaves from the plant are toxic to other species...
  • Family: EUPHORBIACEAE
  • Species: sebiferum
  • Common Name: Chinese Tallow Tree
  • Lot#: 9301
  • Collection Locale: India
  • Seeds Type: db
United States
Iowa
Slash Pine Pinus elliottii
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Pinus elliottii , commonly known as the Slash Pine , is a pine native to the southeastern United States , from southern South Carolina west to southeastern Louisiana , and south to the Florida Keys .
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 35
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Seeds Per Pound: 16,344
United States
Iowa
Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet  Fontanesia fortunei     - Fontanesia phillyreoides fortunei
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish plant, but extremely tough and vigorous; useful for highways and urban sites; native to China.
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Genus: Fontanesia
  • Botanical Name: Fontanesia fortunei
  • Purity: 96%
  • Family: OLEACEAE
  • Quantity: 0.43 lb
United States
Iowa
Murray Red Gum, River Redgum Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The essential oil found in the leaves is a powerful antiseptic and is used all over the world for relieving coughs and colds, sore throats and other infections. * Eucalyptus leaves are a traditional Aboriginal herbal remedy.
  • Quantity: 0.2 lb
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Family: Myrtaceae
  • Purity: 90%
  • Genus: Eucalyptus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 97
United States
Iowa
Chinese Pistache, Chinese Pistach Pistacia chinensis    China
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Doesn't mind heat and drought; grows quickly. * Foliage dark green in summer, orange or orange red in fall. * In the low-elevation deserts of Arizona, it is the only tree whose leaves turn scarlet in fall.
  • Genus: Pistacia
  • Location: China
  • Height: 30-50 feet
  • Quantity: 4.76 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Family: Anacardiaceae
United States
Iowa
Bride\'s Feathers, Goatsbeard Aruncus vulgaris     - Aruncus dioicus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* In Italy the young shoots are eaten, usually boiled briefly in herb infused water, and then cooked with eggs and cheese. * This rose family member is somewhat similar in appearance to astilbe.
  • Botanical Name: Aruncus vulgaris
  • Lot#: 9801
  • Purity: 98%
  • Common Name: Bride's Feathers, Goatsbeard
  • Quantity: 0.12 lb
  • Germination: 40%
United States
Iowa
Beauty Bush, Beautybush Kolkwitzia amabilis     - Linnaea amabilis
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Fragrant flowers that smell like vanilla last for up to two months in late spring early summer. * Nice big shrub of arching vase like habit; grows quickly; pink flowers with yellow throats, in vast profusion in spring, especially when grown in sun;...
  • Purity: 98%
  • Family: Caprifoliaceae
  • Common Name: Beauty Bush, Beautybush
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 67
  • Germination: 83%
United States
Iowa
Murray Red Gum, River Redgum Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The essential oil found in the leaves is a powerful antiseptic and is used all over the world for relieving coughs and colds, sore throats and other infections. * Eucalyptus leaves are a traditional Aboriginal herbal remedy.
  • Botanical Name: Eucalyptus camaldulensis
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 97
  • Seeds Per Pound: 880,000
  • Collection Locale: Turkey
  • Germination: 40%
  • Crop Year: 1999
United States
Iowa
Narrowleaf Ash Fraxinus angustifolia
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The bark is smooth and pale grey on young trees, becoming square-cracked and knobbly on old trees. * It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 20–30 m tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m diameter.
  • Quantity: 1.62 lb
  • Species: angustifolia
  • Genus: Fraxinus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 21
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: OLEACEAE
United States
Iowa
Nuttall Oak Quercus texana     - Quercus nuttallii
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* Quercus texana , commonly known as Nuttall's Oak , is a fast growing large deciduous Oak tree native to North America from the lower Mississippi river valley from SE Missouri to Southern Louisiana and SE Texas and East through Mississippi to Central...
  • Common Name: Nuttall Oak
  • Botanical Name: Quercus texana
  • Height: 30-80 feet
  • Genus: Quercus
United States
Iowa
Luckynut, Yellow Oleander Thevetia peruviana     - Thevetia neriifolia    , Cascabela thevetia
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

The long funnel-shaped sometimes-fragrant yellow (less commonly apricot, sometimes white) flowers are in few-flowered terminal clusters. Many cases of intentional and accidental poisoning of humans are known.
  • Botanical Name: Thevetia peruviana
  • Germination: 91%
  • Genus: Thevetia
  • Quantity: 1.28 lb
  • Species: peruviana
  • Height: 15-20 feet
United States
Iowa
Snake Bark Maple ACER rufinerve
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* A maple in the snake-bark maple group. * It is native to mountains forests of Japan.
  • Species: rufinerve
  • Genus: ACER
  • Botanical Name: ACER rufinerve
United States
Iowa
American Elm Ulmus americana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The American elm occurs naturally in an assortment of habitats, most notably rich bottomlands, floodplains, stream banks, and swampy ground, * The American Elm is the state tree of both Massachusetts and North Dakota
  • Height: 100 feet
  • Purity: 94%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Germination: 71%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 145
  • Species: americana
United States
Iowa
Sweet Cherry, Wild Cherry, Gean Prunus avium  Forestry Selection   - Cerasus avium  Forestry Selection
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The parents of these seeds were selected for their superior qualities relating to timber production and grown in a seed orchard in Denmark. * Cherry wood is also used for smoking foods, particularly meats, in North America, as it lends a distinct and...
  • Genus: Prunus
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 13
  • Species: avium
  • Crop Year: 2012
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
United States
Iowa
Thornless Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos   Inermis
Price : CALL

The juiceof the pods is antiseptic. * Current research is examining the leaves as a potential source of anticancer compounds. * Our "Thornless" seed comes very true. * The pods have been made into a tea for the treatment of indigestion, measles, catarrh...
  • Species: triacanthos
  • Height: 60-100 feet
  • Cultivar: Inermis
  • Genus: Gleditsia
  • Family: Fabaceae
United States
Iowa
Maritime Pine, Cluster Pine Pinus pinaster  aberdoniae
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* Maritime pine is closely related to Turkish pine, Canary Island pine and Aleppo pine, which all share many features with it. It is a relatively non-variable species, with constant morphology over the entire range.
  • Height: 60-100 feet
  • Variety: aberdoniae
  • Common Name: Maritime Pine, Cluster Pine
  • Species: pinaster
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
United States
Iowa
Orange Wattle, Coojong, Golden Wreath Wattle, Blue-leaved Wattle, Western Australian Golden Wattle, Port Jackson Willow Acacia cyanophylla     - Acacia saligna    , Acacia bracteata    , Acacia lindleyi    , Mimosa saligna    , Racosperma salignum
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is used for reclaiming eroded hillsides and wastelands and for stabilizing drift sands as well as for fuel. * Makes a good screen or hedge in warm temperate areas. This is one of the best woody species for binding moving sand.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Purity: 98%
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Botanical Name: Acacia cyanophylla
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Collection Locale: Italy
United States
Iowa
White Leadtree, White Popinac, Jumbay, Leadtree, Haole Koa Leucaena leucocephala     - Leucaena glauca    , Acacia leucocephala    , Acacia frondosa    , Acacia glauca    , Mimosa leucocephala    , Mimosa glauca
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It has a very fast growth rate, young trees reach a height of more than 20 ft in 2–3 years. * The young pods are edible and occasionally eaten along with Javanese vegetables salad with spicy peanut sauce and spicy fish wrapped in papaya or taro leaves...
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Quantity: 22 lb
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 17
  • Seeds Per Pound: 8,107
  • Species: leucocephala
United States
Iowa
Parney Cotoneaster, Milkflower Cotoneaster Cotoneaster coriaceus     - Cotoneaster lacteus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

They are very attractive to bees whilst the fruit is a good winter food source for many species of birds. Branchlets dark purplish brown to grayish brown, cylindric, initially densely yellow tomentose, glabrous when old.
  • Species: coriaceus
  • Seeds Type: db
  • Genus: Cotoneaster
  • Seeds Per Pound: 40,000
  • Germination: 91%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
United States
Iowa
Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet  Fontanesia fortunei     - Fontanesia phillyreoides fortunei
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish plant, but extremely tough and vigorous; useful for highways and urban sites; native to China.
  • Purity: 96%
  • Genus: Fontanesia
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Crop Year: 1997
  • Quantity: 0.43 lb
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
United States
Iowa
Dawn Redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Although shortest of the redwoods, it can grow to at least 200 ft (61 m) in height. The tree faces considerable risks of extinction in its wild range due to deforestation, and so has been planted extensively in arboretums worldwide, where it has proved...
  • Quantity: 4.14 lb
  • Family: Cupressaceae
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 131
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Height: 200 feet
United States
Iowa
Luckynut, Yellow Oleander Thevetia peruviana     - Thevetia neriifolia    , Cascabela thevetia
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

The long funnel-shaped sometimes-fragrant yellow (less commonly apricot, sometimes white) flowers are in few-flowered terminal clusters. Many cases of intentional and accidental poisoning of humans are known.
  • Germination: 91%
  • Collection Locale: Hawaii
  • Seeds Per Pound: 112
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Family: Apocynaceae
  • Height: 15-20 feet
United States
Iowa
Beautyberry, Purple Beautyberry Callicarpa dichotoma
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* The flowers are pink to white. * The berries are bitter and are unfit for culinary use. * Lavender flowers from June until August, followed by violet fruits in October; extremely attractive, smaller than C.
  • Collection Locale: Massachusetts
  • Common Name: Beautyberry, Purple Beautyberry
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Germination: 71%
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Purity: 99%
United States
Iowa
Kentucky Blue-grass , Kentucky Bluegrass Poa pratensis
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

It is also used for making lawns in parks and gardens. Poa pratensis is a herbaceous perennial plant 30–70 centimetres (12–28 in) tall. Poa is Greek for fodder .The name Kentucky Bluegrass derives from its flower heads, which are blue when the plant...
  • Genus: Poa
  • Species: pratensis
  • Purity: 99%
  • Family: Poaceae
  • Height: 1-2 feet
  • Common Name: Kentucky Blue-grass , Kentucky Bluegrass
United States
Iowa
Porcelain Berry, Amur Peppervine Ampelopsis brevipedunculata
Price : CALL

It is hardy to zone 4 and is not frost tender. The flowers are monoecious (individual flowers are either male or female, but both sexes can be found on the same plant) and are pollinated by Insects.
  • Height: 50-70 feet
  • Genus: Ampelopsis
  • Botanical Name: Ampelopsis brevipedunculata
  • Family: Vitaceae
United States
Iowa
Tatarian Honeysuckle Lonicera tatarica
Price : CALL

It is native to Siberia and other parts of eastern Asia, but it is probably better known in North America, where it is a widespread introduced species and noxious weed . * The fruit is a shiny orange or red berry up to a centimeter wide.
  • Genus: Lonicera
  • Family: Caprifoliaceae
  • Botanical Name: Lonicera tatarica
  • Height: 6-10 feet
United States
Iowa
Sericea Lespedeza, Chinese Bush Clover, Chinese Lespedeza, Silky Bush Clover, Sericea  Lespedeza juncea  sericea   - Lespedeza cuneata
Price : CALL

It was initially planted in the United States in 1896 at the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station . * This is listed as an INVASIVE SPECIES. In the 1920s and 30s, sericea lespedeza was grown and planted for erosion control and mine reclamation...
  • Genus: Lespedeza
  • Species: juncea
  • Botanical Name: Lespedeza juncea sericea
  • Height: 2-6 feet
  • Variety: sericea
United States
Iowa