Plant With Winter Interest Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Fort Collins

* The fruit can be eaten raw, cooked or dried for later use. * Actinidia arguta ( hardy kiwi ) is a perennial vine native to Korea , Northern China , and Russian Siberia , producing a small fruit resembling the kiwifruit .

* Shiny leathery leaves, coarse, evergreen, dark green or blue green. * Fruit - raw or cooked. * Very fragrant yellow flowers in early spring. A pleasant acid flavour, it is nice when added to muesli or porridge.

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.

* Gaultheria shallon is a leathery-leaved shrub in the heather family ( Ericaceae ), native to western North America . In English it is known as salal , shallon , or in Britain simply Gaultheria .

* The fruit is used raw or cooked in pies, jams etc. * The fruit is 1–1.2 cm diameter, red to reddish-purple at first, turning dark purple to nearly black when ripe. * Rubus leucodermis (blackcap raspberry, black raspberry, whitebark raspberry, or blue...

* The fruit can be made into jams and preserves.

* The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. * 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;...

The fertile stems grow upright. * Scirpus cyperinus, commonly called woolgrass, is a grass-like, rhizomatous, emergent aquatic perennial of the sedge family that grows in dense slowly-spreading tussocks of arching basal green leaves with upright flowering...

* Produces an abundance of long yellow sweet peppers from mid summer until frost.

* Rubus parviflorus is native to western North America from Alaska south as far as California, New Mexico, Chihuahua, and San Luis Potosi. They can be cooked like asparagus. Can be grown in a woodland garden though it is less likely to fruit well in such...

* Platycladus is a distinct genus of evergreen coniferous tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae , containing only one species, Platycladus orientalis , also known as Chinese Arborvitae or Biota .

* The scientific name 'salicifolius', described by the botanist Franchet , means 'with leaves like willows' (see: Genus Salix ). * The bark of the willow-leaved cotoneaster is gray-brown, its stems are thin, and its root system is sparse.

The flowers and fruit are like those of other Oregon-grapes; like them they are edible but just as sour. * It is an evergreen shrub with short vertical stems, mostly under 30 cm, while the leaves reach higher, rarely up to 2 m tall.

Tenella yields small almond -like hairy fruits with characteristic flavor. * Prunus tenella Batsch, Dwarf Russian Almond , is a species of deciduous shrubs in the genus Prunus , native to steppes of Eastern Europe and Western Siberia , as well as dry...

* It is an evergreen large shrub or small tree , with a rounded crown, short trunk and woolly new twigs. * Loquats are unusual among fruit trees in that the flowers appear in the autumn or early winter, and the fruits are ripe in late winter or early...

* Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species of Berberis , native to Japan and eastern Asia . * Plants can be grown as a medium-size hedge.

* California Wonder peppers are an open pollinated heirloom variety of sweet bell pepper. * They are like the peppers that you buy in the store. * This is a timeless classic. * Blocky shape, excellent for stuffing with a sweet mild flavor.

It is a dioecious, perennial, herbaceous climbing plant which sends up new shoots in early spring and dies back to a cold-hardy rhizome in autumn. * A quick-growing, not to say rampant vine; can be pruned as a shrub; usually grown on a trellis for commercial...

* This heirloom variety was created by Rutgers University in the 1930's. It was the main commercial tomato grown in New Jersey for many years. It produces an abundance of medium sized round bright crimson tomatoes.

This has led to their being very useful as natural dyes. * Black raspberries are high in anthocyanins. * The common wild black raspberry; 1/2" white flowers followed by clusters of delicious shiny black fruit; arching canes root where the tips touch ground.

In South-East Asia and elsewhere, it is called the Money Plant, because its seed pods have the appearance of silver coins. * Annual Honesty ( Lunaria annua ) is a tall (height about 1 m), hairy-stemmed biennial plant native to the Balkans and south west...

Tenella yields small almond -like hairy fruits with characteristic flavor. * Prunus tenella Batsch, Dwarf Russian Almond , is a species of deciduous shrubs in the genus Prunus , native to steppes of Eastern Europe and Western Siberia , as well as dry...

This has led to their being very useful as natural dyes. * Black raspberries are high in anthocyanins. * The common wild black raspberry; 1/2" white flowers followed by clusters of delicious shiny black fruit; arching canes root where the tips touch ground.

* Requires a lime-free soil. * The seed is eaten raw or cooked. Conservation Plant Characteristics Chrysolepis sempervirens (Kellogg) Hjelmqvist bush chinquapin CHSE11 Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Shrub Native Status L48 (N) Federal T/E Status...

Aeschynomene grandiflora, Agati grandiflora) also known as agati or hummingbird tree, is a small tree in the genus Sesbania. It grows where there is good soil and hot humid temperature.

The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard seeds in their droppings. * A tea is made by boiling the leaves and stems. * The seed cones are berry -like, green ripening in 18 months to purple-black...

* Resembles Celtis but has winged fruits to 3/4"; dark green foliage; "gray-brown bark exfoliates in patches and is quite handsome...for the plant collector this is a treasure to be unearthed" (Dirr); native to northern and central China.