Plant With Winter Interest Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Elk Grove

* Berberis vulgaris ( European barberry )/ ( Jaundice berry)/( Ambarbaris) is a shrub in the family Berberidaceae , native to central and southern Europe , northwest Africa and western Asia ; it is also naturalised in northern Europe, including the British...

* Young shoots - harvested as they emerge in the spring, then peeled and eaten raw or cooked like asparagus. * The fruit is 1–1.2 cm diameter, red to reddish-purple at first, turning dark purple to nearly black when ripe.

* Gaultheria shallon is a leathery-leaved shrub in the heather family ( Ericaceae ), native to western North America . Sweet and juicy with a pleasant flavour, it makes good raw eating.

Although sometimes found in pure stands, it is more often associated with Sugar Maple (forming the Beech-Maple climax community ), Yellow Birch , and Eastern Hemlock , typically on moist well drained slopes and rich bottomlands.

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

* The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. This species is used as stock to graft apple trees in Hubei and Sichuan. Palatable and thirst quenching, it is much used in China and leaves are exported from Shasi for this purpose.

It is a food that can easily be eaten in quantity and can be used as a staple food in the diet. * Its conservation status was enhanced to Endangered by the IUCN in 2013 due to its declining abundance.

The fertile stems grow upright. In general, it produces short, tough rhizomes and grows in dense clumps. * The woolly inflorescences remain attractive well into winter. * The cooked seed can be used as a rice substitute.

* The fruit is delicious when eaten out of hand, the fruit is also used in pies, preserves etc. * Polyphenolic compounds from raspberry seeds are efficient antioxidants. * Raspberry fruit may protect the liver.

The plant is drought-deciduous, shedding its foliage for most of the year, leafing out after rainfall. They attract pollinators such as bees, beetles, and flies. * The plant's trunk, branches, and leaves are blue-green in color, hence the common name.

They also generally display a greater resistance to disease and insects, especially to the squash vine borer. Moschata acts as the genetic bridge within the genus and is closest to the genus' progenitor.

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 can be used as a topping for various puddings. * These are the sweetest seeds of any species in this genus * A delicious oil can be extracted from the seed by crushing the nuts, boiling them in water and then skimming off the oil as it comes to the...

The poor taste is probably due, at least in part, to the presence of tannins. These can be removed by soaking the seed in water for a few days, changing the soak water regularly. The process can be speeded up by grinding the seed into a powder prior to...

* The peanut or groundnut (Arachis hypogaea) is a species in the family Fabaceae (commonly known as the bean, pea or legume family). * Seed - pre-soak for 12 hours in warm water and sow the seed in mid spring in a warm greenhouse.

* The Gray Pine ( Pinus sabineana ) is a pine endemic to California in the United States ; historically and internationally, the common name has been more frequently termed Digger Pine .

* The whole plant is used in the treatment of arthritis, recurring fever in pulmonary tuberculosis, tubercular lymph nodes, joint pained and lumbago. * Very shiny dark green leaves, spiny; ultimately forms a dense, rounded crown; attractive gray bark,...

* Annona muricata is tolerant of poor soil and prefers lowland areas between the altitudes of 0 metres (0 ft) to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft). The fruit is usually called soursop due to its slightly acidic taste when ripe.

Flowers are followed by fuzzy-skinned, green to yellow apricots (to 1” diameter) with clinging stones. Flowers have red calyxes and yellowish stamens. The flower, long a beloved subject in the traditional painting of East Asia and Vietnam, is usually...

* The fruit is eaten raw or dried for later use. The woody fruit is up to 30mm in diameter. A pleasant sub-acid taste, somewhat resembling dried apples. * Small greenish-yellow flowers from April to July, in profusion; conspicuous brown-yellow winged...

* In Chile, it is a very common species in the natural grasslands of the northern metropolitan region. * Prosopis chilensis , carob , is a species of South American legume family which dwells mainly central Chile, south of Peru , Andean- Chaco ecotone...

* The seed is eaten raw or cooked. Arizona and northern Mexico and is sold in the local markets there. A sweet taste, it is an important item of food for the Indians in S. It typically grows in dry hills at moderate altitudes.

* It is a deciduous shrub , irregular in shape, 0.3–3 m (rarely 4 m) high and possibly somewhat wider. White to light pink flowers (3/4" across) are solitary or in pairs. Slightly rugose, serrate, obovate to elliptic, dark green leaves (2-3" long) with...

Elk, moose, and white-tailed deer also browse the plant. * Some Native American groups lit carefully planned controlled burns in wild huckleberry patches to promote fruit production by eliminating competing plants and by stimulating the huckleberry to...

* The fruit is eaten raw or dried for later use. The woody fruit is up to 30mm in diameter. A pleasant sub-acid taste, somewhat resembling dried apples. * Small greenish-yellow flowers from April to July, in profusion; conspicuous brown-yellow winged...

Austrina in the southern Sierra Nevada . Balfouriana in the Klamath Mountains , and subsp. In both areas, it is often a tree line species. In the Sierra Nevada, Foxtail pines are limited to the area around Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks .

* The fruit is a good wildlife food source, especially for birds. * It can grow in heavy clay soil, in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade, but must be moist soil. * The smallest crab; fragrant half-inch white flowers; dark red fruit "about the size...