Plant With Winter Interest Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Abilene

Fruit from the typical species is about 1cm in diameter, though there are sub-species and cultivated forms with considerably larger fruits. It is often dried for winter use and also makes an excellent jelly.

* A low, suckering shrub, member of the heath family; flowers white, resemble blueberry flowers; purple or black edible fruit; habit depends on growing conditions, scrambling up to some height in shade and rich soil, forming a low mat in full sun and...

* Sometimes a tree, more often a shrub to about 15'; bright red fruits; grows on woody slopes from New York south to Georgia, west to Alabama (range of origin). * Ilex montana ( Mountain Winterberry ; also "Mountain Holly" which is more typically Ilex...

It would be difficult to use too many Kousa Dogwoods. * The USDA Forest Service states in their Fact Sheet ST-192 November 1993 Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way' This cultivar of Kousa Dogwood produces more flowers and fruit than the species and may be more...

Golden summer turns deeper yellow as it matures. It is one of the earliest producing crookneck squash on the market that produces all summer long. They are best harvested when 8" long.

* A low, suckering shrub, member of the heath family; flowers white, resemble blueberry flowers; purple or black edible fruit; habit depends on growing conditions, scrambling up to some height in shade and rich soil, forming a low mat in full sun and...

* A species of maple in the snakebark maple group. * It is native to China , from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong , and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan.

* The fruit is an excellent safe and gentle laxative. * It is an evergreen shrub with short vertical stems, mostly under 30 cm, while the leaves reach higher, rarely up to 2 m tall.

It is a medium-sized deciduous shrub that is typically found in moist lowland areas, swamp borders, floodplains, shrub wetlands, wet meadows/prairies and along streams and ponds in Eastern and Midwestern North America (New Foundland to Ontario south to...

Normally in the 20 to 50 pound size, but it is not uncommon to see pumpkins over 100 lbs. * Best planted between two and four weeks after the average last frost, Big Max pumpkins typically become ripe 110 to 120 days after sowing.

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...

Up to 1 cm in diameter, it has a sour taste. * Pink buds, white flowers; with stiff, spreading branches; in Asia a tea is made from the leaves; fruits ripen from greenish yellow blushed with red, to yellow and orange, to red; young leaves may be purplish;...

* Foxtail Pines occur in the subalpine forest in these mountains: at an elevation of 1950-2750 m in the Klamath range, and 2300-3500 m in the Sierra Nevada. * Stiff 1 1/2 " dark needles; cones to 5"; looks like Pinus aristata with shorter needles and...

* The peanut or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is a species in the family Fabaceae (commonly known as the bean, pea or legume family). Rudolf Diesel ran some of the first engines that bear his name on peanut oil and it is still seen as a potentially useful...

* It is a deciduous shrub growing to 0.5–3 m tall, with prickly shoots. * The fruit is used raw or cooked in pies, jams etc. A black raspberry, it is a very well flavoured fruit that can also be dried for winter use.

It is native to Japan where it is widespread and often one of the dominant trees of Japan's deciduous forests. * Has light gray bark; rounded crown; often used in bonsai; an important native element of Japanese forests.

The leaves are oval-acute, 2–3.5 centimetres (0.79–1.4 in) long and 1–1.5 centimetres (0.39–0.59 in) broad, shiny green above, pubescent below with dense whitish to yellowish hairs.

The shoots are rich in vitamin C. Because the fruit is so soft, it does not pack or ship well, so thimbleberries are rarely cultivated commercially. The shoots are harvested as they emerge in the spring, and whilst they are still young and tender.

* Very shiny dark green leaves, spiny; ultimately forms a dense, rounded crown; attractive gray bark, berries in various shades of red, lasting long into winter; parent of many cultivars.

* The Coulter pine produces the heaviest cone of any pine tree. * The oil-rich seed has a delicious taste with a slightly resinous flavour, it used to be gathered in large quantities by the local Indians who ate it as a staple food.

Plants are susceptible to fireblight. A decoction of the root and branch bark has been used as an eyewash. A slow-growing shrub in the wild, it can sometimes become a small tree up to 9 metres tall.

It is hardy to zone 5 and is not frost tender. * A constituent of its extract has been found to be an effective and selective dopamine reuptake inhibitor. * A decidious Shrub growing to 3 m (9ft) by 5 m (16ft).

* Malvus sylvestris is a spreading herb , who is an annual in North Africa , biennial in the Mediterranean and a perennial elsewhere . * 2 1/2" deep purple flowers on a plant that resembles a small hollyhock; likes full sun; biennial or perennial; native...

* Vaccinium arboreum ( Sparkleberry or Farkleberry ) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States , from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri , and south to Florida and eastern Texas .

* This tree responds very well to coppicing, which is still practised in Britain, and produces a good crop of tannin-rich wood every 12 to 30 years, depending on intended use and local growth rate.

* A purple to dull blue dye is obtained from the fruit. * Polyphenolic compounds from raspberry seeds are efficient antioxidants. * A herb tea is made from the dried leaves. * The fruit is delicious when eaten out of hand, the fruit is also used in pies,...

* Another vigorous scrambling vine grown for its yellow-orange fruit capsules and crimson seeds; likes full sun; poor soil will slow the rampant growth. The root is diaphoretic, diuretic and emetic.