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

This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height. The stems may be smooth or fuzzy, and are often glandular. * Arctostaphylos viscida is a species of manzanita known by the common names whiteleaf manzanita and sticky manzanita .

Sweet and juicy with a pleasant flavour, it makes good raw eating. In English it is known as salal , shallon , or in Britain simply Gaultheria . * Gaultheria shallon is a leathery-leaved shrub in the heather family ( Ericaceae ), native to western North...

Small but very sweet and nutritious, it is sold in local markets in Canada and some parts of America. * An imposing, sturdy looking native with smooth gray bark and dark green leaves, a glorious dark golden-brown in fall; edible nut; likes moist acid,...

During the colder months, they turn maroonish in color. * Shiny dark-green evergreen leaves, "flowers generally stinky" (Dirr); grown mainly for its bright red fruit, to 1/4 inch wide, which may last through winter; native to western China.

* 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, preserves etc.

It would be difficult to use too many Kousa Dogwoods. Branches grow upright when the tree is young, but appear in horizontal layers on mature trees. * Of broad bushy habit; unusually abundant flowery bracts.

* 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. Balfouriana in the Klamath Mountains , and subsp.

It lies between 500-1850 m It is a medium low tree, no more than 3-12 m in height and 6 dm in diameter, although rarely as grown trees was found ( by fire and logging ), short trunk , long branches decumbent ; taproot , with vertical growth first, then...

It is cultivated commercially in frost-free areas for its fruit and is widely grown in India , Sri Lanka , New Zealand , the Caribbean , Brazil, Colombia , Ecuador , Indonesia , Peru , California , Florida , Haiti , Hawaii , Australia , East Africa ,...

It is native to northern China and Korea , and is also known as the Chinese Bitter Orange. Citrus trifoliata ) is a member of the family Rutaceae , closely related to Citrus , and sometimes included in that genus, being sufficiently closely related to...

A sour taste, but the fruit is palatable. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. * Resembles the species but among the earliest of all crab apples to flower; fruit bright red, to 1/2"; native to Manchuria, China.

Sweeter than A. * A very hardy plant, tolerating temperatures down to -30°c or more, but the young spring growth is susceptible to frost damage. Deliciosa, the kiwi fruit, the skin is smooth and can be eaten with the fruit.

* An edible gum is obtained from points of damage on the trunk. Their early flowering and fruiting means that they require a sheltered spot away from frosts and cold winds. The seed contains about 20% of an edible semi-drying oil.

* Chinese chestnuts have evolved over a long period of time in coexistence with the bark fungal disease chestnut blight and have evolved a very successful resistance to the blight, probably more so than any other species of chestnut.

It is frequently used as an informal low hedge. * The flowering quince, with flowers of red, scarlet, pink, white, and variations thereof, in spring; fruits used in cooking; native to China.

* Betula populifolia ( Gray Birch ) is a deciduous tree native to North America . The flow is best on warm days that follow frosty nights. * Bark a dull, chalky white; shiny dark green leaves, yellow fall color; one of the smaller birches; useful for...

Prefers a sheltered semi-shaded position and a light deep moist soil. * A very ornamental shrub. Plants can only be grown in oceanic and Mediterranean climates, thriving in Britain.

* The most important of the edible blueberries, but also a good ornamental; dark green or blue-green leaves, turning yellow, orange, red, and bronzy in fall; masses of white or pinkish flowers with the new leaves; blue-black berries to 1/2" starting in...

* The fruit is juicy with a very good flavour. * Rubus spectabilis ( Salmonberry ) is a species of Rubus native to the west coast of North America from west central Alaska to California .

It is native to northern China and Korea , and is also known as the Chinese Bitter Orange. Citrus trifoliata ) is a member of the family Rutaceae , closely related to Citrus , and sometimes included in that genus, being sufficiently closely related to...

* To get more fruits, sometimes farmers cut off the tip of the vine when it has grown 6–8 feet long. * This gourd is often dried when ripe and used as a percussion instrument called an ipu heke in contemporary and ancient hula.

* Vaccinium membranaceum is native to western North America, with a range extending in the northern from southern Alaska, Yukon, and Northwest Territories south as far as Utah and the northern mountains of California.

* The fruit is an edible red to orange berry 6-millimetre (0.24 in) to 10-millimetre (0.39 in) in diameter. The leaves are ovate to oblong-elliptic, 9-millimetre (0.35 in) to 30-millimetre (1.2 in) long, and 4-millimetre (0.16 in) to 16-millimetre (0.63...

* 2" pinkish-purple flowers; scarlet hips to 1/2"; red branches; spreads into dense thickets by suckering from roots. * The fruit contains about 2.8% dry weight vitamin C.

* Plants can be grown as a medium-size hedge. They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Bright green leaves, very dense, with a horizontal habit; orange, scarlet, and reddish purple...

* The bark is smooth, olive-green with regular narrow pale vertical stripes on young trees. * It is native to China, from Jiangsu south to Fujian and Guangdong, and west to southeastern Gansu and Yunnan.

* Valued more as a novelty, the fruit looks somewhat like a deep-purple coloured sausage. * The fruit has a delicate flavour and a soft juicy texture. The fruit is 7 - 13cm long. The flavour can be enhanced by the addition of a little lemon juice.