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Montezuma Pine, Ocote Pinus montezumae
Price : CALL

It is appreciated for its resin. It has a round crown. The tree grows about 35 m high and 80 cm in diameter; occasionally it may reach a height of 40 m and diameter of 1 m. * A vanillin flavouring is obtained as a by-product of other resins that are released...
  • Common Name: Montezuma Pine, Ocote
  • Species: montezumae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Family: PINACEAE
Illinois
Chicago
Chinese Pistache, Chinese Pistach Pistacia chinensis China
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Used as a street and shade tree in Florida. * Foliage dark green in summer, orange or orange red in fall. * Doesn't mind heat and drought; grows quickly. * In the low-elevation deserts of Arizona, it is the only tree whose leaves turn scarlet in fall.

China

    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 25
    • Location: China
    • Height: 30-50 feet
    • Botanical Name: Pistacia chinensis China
    • Quantity: 4.76 lb
    • Collection Locale: China
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Narrowleaf Ash Fraxinus angustifolia
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 20–30 m tall with a trunk up to 1.5 m diameter. * The bark is smooth and pale grey on young trees, becoming square-cracked and knobbly on old trees.
    • Botanical Name: Fraxinus angustifolia
    • Purity: 95%
    • Quantity: 1.62 lb
    • Species: angustifolia
    • Common Name: Narrowleaf Ash
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Dragon Tree, Fortunes Empress Tree, Sapphire Tree, Phoenix Tree Paulownia fortunei
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The wood is also important in China, Korea, and Japan for making the soundboards of stringed musical instruments such as the guqin, pipa, koto, and kayagum. It grows well in a wide variety of soil types, notably poor ones, but needs a lot of light and...
    • Seeds Per Pound: 1,522,600
    • Germination Test Type: estimate
    • Height: 60-75 feet
    • Quantity: 5.58 lb
    • Common Name: Dragon Tree, Fortunes Empress Tree, Sapphire Tree, Phoenix Tree
    • Family: BIGNONIACEAE
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Northern Catalpa, Western Catalpa, Northern Cigar Tree, Catawba Tree, Hardy Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    It weighs 26lb per cubic foot. A very valuable timber tree in N. * Catalpa speciosa , commonly known as the Northern Catalpa , is a species of Catalpa that is native to the midwestern United States in Arkansas , Illinois , Indiana , Missouri , Kentucky...
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Collection Locale: Missouri
    • Genus: Catalpa
    • Species: speciosa
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 23
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Box Elder, Ash-leaved Maple, Boxelder, Ashleaf Maple, Manitoba Maple ACER negundo
    Price : CALL

    * It often has several trunks, the shoots are green, often with a whitish to pink or violet waxy coating wen young. * Compound leaves, stems green or purple with a glaucous "bloom"; grows most often along streams and ditches but does well elsewhere; female...
    • Genus: ACER
    • Species: negundo
    • Common Name: Box Elder, Ash-leaved Maple, Boxelder, Ashleaf Maple, Manitoba Maple
    • Height: 30-75 feet
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Roselle Hibiscus sabdariffa
    Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The roselle ( Hibiscus sabdariffa ) is a species of Hibiscus native to the Old World tropics, used for the production of bast fibre and as an infusion . * An annual or, in tropical areas, perennial; 4-5" yellow flowers with a brownish-red base; calyx...
    • Purity: 99%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 13
    • Family: Malvaceae
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Botanical Name: Hibiscus sabdariffa
    • Species: sabdariffa
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet Fontanesia fortunei - Fontanesia phillyreoides fortunei
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...
    • Quantity: 0.43 lb
    • Purity: 96%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 104
    • Common Name: Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet
    • Family: OLEACEAE
    • Crop Year: 1997
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Groundsel, Silverling, Eastern Baccharis, Groundsel Bush, Consumption Weed, Cotton-seed Tree, Groundsel Tree Baccharis halimifolia
    Price : CALL

    * Baccharis halimifolia ( Eastern Baccharis) , commonly called groundsel bush, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel tree or silverling) is a fall flowering evergreen perennial plant of the genus Baccharis which is commonly found in the southeastern...
    • Height: 10 feet
    • Common Name: Groundsel, Silverling, Eastern Baccharis, Groundsel Bush, Consumption Weed, Cotton-seed Tree, Groundsel Tree
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    • Botanical Name: Baccharis halimifolia
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Beautyberry, Purple Beautyberry Callicarpa dichotoma
    Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The berries are bitter and are unfit for culinary use. * The berries which are small drupes are purple. The fruit provides food for wild life. The fruits grow closely together in large clusters.
    • Common Name: Beautyberry, Purple Beautyberry
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
    • Crop Year: 2018
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 30
    • Seeds Per Pound: 97,610
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Luckynut, Yellow Oleander Thevetia peruviana - Thevetia neriifolia , Cascabela thevetia
    Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

    * All parts of the C. Its stem is green turning silver/gray as it ages. They are covered in waxy coating to reduce water loss (typical of oleanders). Its fruit is deep red-black in color encasing a large seed that bears some resemblance to a 'Chinese...
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
    • Seeds Per Pound: 112
    • Genus: Thevetia
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Germination: 91%
    • Collection Locale: Hawaii
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Common Hackberry Celtis occidentalis North America
    Price : CALL

    * Ridjica and Sombor in Serbia (where it is called kustelic or galagunja) and Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, is known for the extensive use of hackberry as a street tree. It is also known as the nettletree, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American...
    • Height: 60-130 feet
    • Genus: Celtis
    • Common Name: Common Hackberry
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    • Family: Ulmaceae
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Rem Red Amur Honeysuckle Lonicera maackii Rem Red
    Price : CALL

    Therefore, it was heavily planted in the midwest and eastern US. It has since been determined to be very invasive and so is being eradicated many places. It was touted as a great plant for wildlife and erosion control.
    • Genus: Lonicera
    • Family: Caprifoliaceae
    • Botanical Name: Lonicera maackii Rem Red
    • Common Name: Rem Red Amur Honeysuckle
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Callery Pear Pyrus calleryana China
    Price : CALL

    The leaves are oval, 4 to 7 cm (1.6 to 2.8 in) long, glossy dark green above, slightly paler below. The flowers are produced in early spring before the leaves expand fully, and are white, with five petals, and about 2 to 3 cm (0.79 to 1.2 in) in diameter.
    • Genus: Pyrus
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    • Common Name: Callery Pear
    • Location: China
    • Species: calleryana
    Illinois
    Chicago
    American Elm Ulmus americana
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Dirr notes that several forms occur, but the one most of us recall fondly divided into several major trunks topped by spreading, arching, pendulous branches. * The American elm occurs naturally in an assortment of habitats, most notably rich bottomlands,...
    • Purity: 94%
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Botanical Name: Ulmus americana
    • Genus: Ulmus
    • Crop Year: 2018
    • Family: Ulmaceae
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Lemon-Scented Gum Eucalyptus citriodora - CORYMBIA citriodora
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * It has smooth, pale, uniform or slightly mottled bark, white to coppery in summer, and a conspicuously narrow-leaved crown which smells strongly of lemons. * The essential oil of the lemon-scented gum mainly consists of citronellal (80%), produced largely...
    • Seeds Per Pound: 80,812
    • Purity: 95%
    • Genus: Eucalyptus
    • Germination: 98%
    • Family: MYRTACEAE
    • Collection Locale: India
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Japanese Camellia, Camellia Camellia japonica
    Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is a member of the Theaceae family or tea family. It is called 'tsubaki oil'. It is also the official state flower of Alabama . It is a flowering shrub or a small tree native to Japan , Korea and China .
    • Botanical Name: Camellia japonica
    • Species: japonica
    • Height: 6-30 feet
    • Purity: 99%
    • Crop Year: 2015
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 8
    Illinois
    Chicago
    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.
    • Lot#: 9801
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 136
    • Germination Test Type: estimate
    • Species: vulgaris
    • Seeds Per Pound: 1,234,880
    • Height: 6ft
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Advanced Shortleaf Pine Pinus echinata
    Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

    The wood weighs 38lb per cubic foot. The advanced have gone through two rounds of testing, so they are the best of the best. * The improved shortleaf has gone through a complete round of testing, so all of the selections are good for form, straightness...
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Species: echinata
    • Height: 70-80 feet
    • Genus: Pinus
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 33
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Groundsel, Silverling, Eastern Baccharis, Groundsel Bush, Consumption Weed, Cotton-seed Tree, Groundsel Tree Baccharis halimifolia
    Price : CALL

    * Baccharis halimifolia ( Eastern Baccharis) , commonly called groundsel bush, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel tree or silverling) is a fall flowering evergreen perennial plant of the genus Baccharis which is commonly found in the southeastern...
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    • Height: 10 feet
    • Common Name: Groundsel, Silverling, Eastern Baccharis, Groundsel Bush, Consumption Weed, Cotton-seed Tree, Groundsel Tree
    • Botanical Name: Baccharis halimifolia
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Fontanesia, Syrian-privet Fontanesia phillyraeoides
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Fontanesia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae , usually treated as comprising a single species Fontanesia philliraeoides , though some authors split this into two species (see below).
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
    • Common Name: Fontanesia, Syrian-privet
    • Seeds Per Pound: 80,812
    • Family: OLEACEAE
    • Crop Year: 1997
    • Genus: Fontanesia
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Cherry Laurel Prunus laurocerasus - Cerasus laurocerasus
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Prunus laurocerasus (common name Cherry laurel and sometimes called English laurel in North America) is a species in the genus Prunus , native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe , from Albania and Bulgaria...
    • Botanical Name: Prunus laurocerasus
    • Common Name: Cherry Laurel
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
    • Crop Year: 2011
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
    • Genus: Prunus
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Sensitive Plant, Shameplant, Shy Plant, Humble Plant, Sleeping Grass, Touch-Me-Not, Lajjalu, Bashful Mimosa Mimosa pudica
    Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Grown mostly as a curiosity, for the compound leaflets fold up promptly along the midrib when touched. * Aqueous extracts of the roots of the plant have shown significant neutralizing effects in the lethality of the venom of the monocled cobra (Naja...
    • Botanical Name: Mimosa pudica
    • Genus: Mimosa
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 135
    • Purity: 99%
    • Germination: 91%
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Montezuma Pine, Ocote Pinus montezumae
    Price : CALL

    It is appreciated for its resin. It has a round crown. The tree grows about 35 m high and 80 cm in diameter; occasionally it may reach a height of 40 m and diameter of 1 m. * A vanillin flavouring is obtained as a by-product of other resins that are released...
    • Common Name: Montezuma Pine, Ocote
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
    • Genus: Pinus
    • Height: 100-120 feet
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Grape Ivy, Japanese Creeper, Woodbine, Boston Ivy, Japanese Ivy Parthenocissus tricuspidata
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    Though unrelated to true ivy , it is commonly known Japanese creeper , Boston ivy , Grape ivy , Japanese ivy , and woodbine (though the latter may refer to a number of vines). * Plants are very tolerant of trimming and can be cut right back to within...
    • Germination: 91%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 32
    • Common Name: Grape Ivy, Japanese Creeper, Woodbine, Boston Ivy, Japanese Ivy
    • Collection Locale: China
    • Height: 90 feet
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Red Maple ACER rubrum Southern
    Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Over most of its range, red maple is adaptable to a very wide range of site conditions. * Brilliant deep scarlet foliage in autumn * One of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America * A decidious Tree growing to 30 m.
    • Germination: 71%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 34
    • Purity: 95%
    • Height: 50 feet
    • Crop Year: 2015
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    Illinois
    Chicago
    Southern Catalpa Catalpa bignonioides - Catalpa syringifolia
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    It also multiplies readily from cuttings. They are like Catnip for Catfish! It is highly valued for posts and fencing rails, and is also used for interior finishes, cabinet work etc.
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Purity: 99%
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Seeds Per Pound: 44,069
    • Height: 50-60 feet
    • Species: bignonioides
    Illinois
    Chicago
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