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

* The legume is a used as a vegetable in interiors of central and south central India, though not commercially farmed. In Telugu it is called 'chamma kaya' also called 'Tammi kaya' * The fruits are eaten as a vegetable in Africa and Asia.

It has large, pointed oval leaves with marked serrations. The common name "Honesty" arose in the 16th century, and it may be due to the translucent seed-pods which are like flattened pea-pods and borne on the plant through winter.

* A vigorous branching tree, it makes a good windbreak. This species is used as stock to graft apple trees in Hubei and Sichuan. The leaves are a tea substitute. Up to 1 cm in diameter, it has a sour taste.

Very sweet and much appreciated, tasting somewhat like a hazel nut. * A very ornamental shrub. Plants can only be grown in oceanic and Mediterranean climates, thriving in Britain. Prefers a sheltered semi-shaded position and a light deep moist soil.

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.

* The seed can be eaten raw or cooked. * Sweet chestnut has been listed as one of the 38 substances used to prepare Bach flower remedies, a kind of alternative medicine promoted for its effect on health.

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...

An infusion is used internally in the treatment of stomach complaints, diarrhoea and dysentery, anaemia, the spitting up of blood and to treat vomiting. Its range extends east to the Rocky Mountains and discontinuously to the Great Lakes Region.

It is a rapidly growing large shrub or small tree, and rarely survives to 100 years. The plant is drought-deciduous, shedding its foliage for most of the year, leafing out after rainfall.

* The Foxtail Pine ( Pinus balfouriana ) is a rare pine that is endemic to California , United States , where it is found in two areas with a separate subspecies in each, the typical subsp.

* This sedge is very variable in appearance. In general, it produces short, tough rhizomes and grows in dense clumps. * The cooked seed can be used as a rice substitute. There are five to ten leaves per stem.

The leaves are compound , with 9-19 leaflets; each leaflet is strongly toothed, reminiscent of holly , and somewhat shiny, but less so than Tall Oregon-grape . The leaflets do not have a single central vein as in that species, but several veins arranged...

In north-east Honsh? It is found from the Oshima Peninsula in Hokkaid? South to the ?sumi Peninsula in Ky?sh? It grows in large stands from sea level up to 1400 metres but in the south-west of its range it is restricted to mountainous areas and occurs...

They are very tolerant of trimming and have prickles which make them an effective barrier to larger creatures. * Our seed produces a very high percentage of Red seedlings. * Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry...

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 .

These can be removed by soaking the seed in water for a few days, changing the soak water regularly. Not of a good taste. The process can be speeded up by grinding the seed into a powder prior to soaking.

Mas but is more tree-like in its habit. Compared to other juices obtained from plum, pear, and apple, Cornelian cherry juice contained higher levels of dietary minerals. * Resembles Cornus mas, but its exfoliating bark is more colorful, in rich grays,...

* The fruit is a drupe similar to a small peach , 1.5–2.5 cm diameter, from yellow to orange, often tinged red on the side most exposed to the sun; its surface is usually pubescent .

It does well in humid tropics with high rainfall. Use the young pods before they mature for best flavor. Start seeds indoors and transplant outside when danger of frost is past. * Young seedpods - cooked for a few minutes.

* Native to northeast Asia. * Green to greenish purple stems with white stripes; of open habit with yellow fall color.

Synonyms include Ilex monticola . * 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).

The leaves are used to impart a green colouring to oils and fats. * A shrub with very strongly scented yellow-white flowers in 4-8" flat-topped clusters in June, followed by 1/4" shiny black fruits; dark green compound leaves; multistemmed; native from...

The seed has a strong bitter taste that, in parts of the Mediterranean, is dried, ground and used as a spice in breads and pastries. * The species is grown as an ornamental tree for its strongly fragrant flowers.

It was cultivated by the Aztec in pre-Columbian times, and was so valued that it was given as an annual tribute by the people to the rulers. The gelled seeds can also be prepared as a gruel or pudding.

Good drainage is important. * Leaves often turn a quality shade of red in fall. * Best grown in moist, loamy, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. * A compact species with shiny dark green leaves, small rose-colored flowers, and 1/3" to 1/2"...

The leaves are a nice shiny green and the fruits are a very unique white color with rose blush. The perfect plant for Rock Garden or along with Dwarf Conifers. * This is a beautiful and very interesting small shrub.

* Shrubs or small trees, to 5–7 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown when old, terete, slender, pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, glabrous when old; buds reddish brown, ovoid; scales villous at margin.