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Red Birch, Water Birch, Western Red Birch Betula occidentalis - Betula fontinalis
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

It typically occurs along streams in mountainous regions. * Shiny reddish-brown or dark brown bark; often of shrubby habit; native to Rocky Mountains * The buds and twigs are used as a flavouring in stews
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Genus: Betula
  • Family: Betulaceae
  • Germination: 63%
  • Purity: 97%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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King Boris Fir Abies borisii-regis
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is closely related to (and in many respects intermediate between) Silver Fir to the north in central Europe, Greek Fir to the south in southern Greece, and Nordmann Fir to the east in northern Turkey.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 6,356
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Genus: Abies
  • Collection Locale: Bulgaria
  • Purity: 99%
  • Botanical Name: Abies borisii-regis
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King Boris Fir Abies borisii-regis
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is closely related to (and in many respects intermediate between) Silver Fir to the north in central Europe, Greek Fir to the south in southern Greece, and Nordmann Fir to the east in northern Turkey.
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 7
  • Species: borisii-regis
  • Genus: Abies
  • Seeds Per Pound: 6,356
  • Family: PINACEAE
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Pond Pine, Marsh Pine, Pocosin Pine Pinus serotina
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Other reports say that it is closely related to P. * The species name is derived from the persistently unopened cones that may remain closed for several years before they release their seeds; the opening is often in response to forest fires.
  • Collection Locale: North Carolina
  • Species: serotina
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Germination: 50%
  • Botanical Name: Pinus serotina
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 25
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Pond Pine, Marsh Pine, Pocosin Pine Pinus serotina
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Other reports say that it is closely related to P. * The species name is derived from the persistently unopened cones that may remain closed for several years before they release their seeds; the opening is often in response to forest fires.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Quantity: 0.12 lb
  • Height: 45-60 feet
  • Botanical Name: Pinus serotina
  • Collection Locale: North Carolina
  • Seeds Per Pound: 47,979
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Japanese Ternstroemia Ternstroemia gymnanthera
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* A variable evergreen of upright, rounded habit, with 1/2" white flowers in small clusters; 1" green or red berries; likes moist soil, part shade; emerging leaves bronzy to reddish, later leathery, dark green; leaves to 4" x 1 1/2", turning bronzy-red...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Botanical Name: Ternstroemia gymnanthera
  • Genus: Ternstroemia
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 10
  • Purity: 99%
  • Height: 8-10 feet
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Japanese Ternstroemia Ternstroemia gymnanthera
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* A variable evergreen of upright, rounded habit, with 1/2" white flowers in small clusters; 1" green or red berries; likes moist soil, part shade; emerging leaves bronzy to reddish, later leathery, dark green; leaves to 4" x 1 1/2", turning bronzy-red...
  • Botanical Name: Ternstroemia gymnanthera
  • Seeds Per Pound: 10,517
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 0.36 lb
  • Common Name: Japanese Ternstroemia
  • Family: THEACEAE
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Korean Clematis, Yellow Clematis Clematis serratifolia
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees, flies. * It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.It requires moist soil.
  • Germination: 99%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Seeds Per Pound: 127,574
  • Common Name: Korean Clematis, Yellow Clematis
  • Collection Locale: MT
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 25
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Roughleaf Dogwood, Drummond\'s Dogwood Cornus drummondii
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* A gray-branched shrub with white berries; flowers in late spring; native to central North America from Ontario to Louisiana and Texas. * These dogwoods can form a dense thicket that is used as a hedge, border or cover for wildlife.
  • Family: Cornaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Genus: Cornus
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Botanical Name: Cornus drummondii
  • Purity: 98%
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Roughleaf Dogwood, Drummond\'s Dogwood Cornus drummondii
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* A gray-branched shrub with white berries; flowers in late spring; native to central North America from Ontario to Louisiana and Texas. * These dogwoods can form a dense thicket that is used as a hedge, border or cover for wildlife.
  • Genus: Cornus
  • Height: 15-20 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Common Name: Roughleaf Dogwood, Drummond's Dogwood
  • Species: drummondii
  • Crop Year: 2016
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Asian Globeflower Trollius asiaticus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

This plant usually grows in wet places, especially in grasslands and forests . It commonly grows to about 20 cm or higher. * The Asian Globeflower ( Trollius asiaticus ) is an ornamental plant of the family Ranunculaceae , which is native to Asia and...
  • Family: RANUNCULACEAE
  • Crop Year: 2008
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Seeds Per Pound: 908,000
  • Lot#: 080417
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 96
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Buckwheat Tree, Buckwheat Brush, Titi, Black Tree, Ironwood Cliftonia monophylla
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* The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong. * Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added. It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel.
  • Species: monophylla
  • Height: 12-15 feet
  • Botanical Name: Cliftonia monophylla
  • Family: Cyrillaceae
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Buckwheat Tree, Buckwheat Brush, Titi, Black Tree, Ironwood Cliftonia monophylla
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* The wood is heavy, close-grained, moderately hard, brittle, not strong. * Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added. It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel.
  • Species: monophylla
  • Height: 12-15 feet
  • Botanical Name: Cliftonia monophylla
  • Family: Cyrillaceae
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Ensata Japanese Iris, Japanese Iris Iris ensata - Iris ensata spontaenea , Iris kaempferi
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Likes plenty of moisture and a rich loamy slightly acid soil. * The species has reddish-purple flowers; grows in marshes, ditches, and other wet places, even in shallow water; flowering in June and July; needs acid soil in cultivation; many elaborate,...
  • Germination: 91%
  • Family: Iridaceae
  • Height: 18-24 inches
  • Genus: Iris
  • Species: ensata
  • Crop Year: 2018
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Common China Fir, Chinese Fir Cunninghamia lanceolata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The wood is strongly resistant to rot, is not eaten by termites, and is easily worked. * An evergreen native to China, where it is a widely used timber tree; the wood resists rot; of pyramidal habit with slightly pendulous branches; bark brown, peeling...
  • Germination: 67%
  • Common Name: Common China Fir, Chinese Fir
  • Family: Cupressaceae
  • Quantity: 3.84 lb
  • Height: 120-150 feet
  • Collection Locale: China
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Ensata Japanese Iris, Japanese Iris Iris ensata - Iris ensata spontaenea , Iris kaempferi
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Likes plenty of moisture and a rich loamy slightly acid soil. * The species has reddish-purple flowers; grows in marshes, ditches, and other wet places, even in shallow water; flowering in June and July; needs acid soil in cultivation; many elaborate,...
  • Species: ensata
  • Height: 18-24 inches
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Genus: Iris
  • Purity: 99%
  • Family: Iridaceae
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Asian Globeflower Trollius asiaticus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

This plant usually grows in wet places, especially in grasslands and forests . It commonly grows to about 20 cm or higher. * The Asian Globeflower ( Trollius asiaticus ) is an ornamental plant of the family Ranunculaceae , which is native to Asia and...

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    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    • Family: RANUNCULACEAE
    • Purity: 98%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 96
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Germination: 98%
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    Korean Clematis, Yellow Clematis Clematis serratifolia
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) and are pollinated by Bees, flies. * It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland) or no shade.It requires moist soil.
    • Germination: 99%
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
    • Purity: 90%
    • Crop Year: 1996
    • Collection Locale: MT
    • Common Name: Korean Clematis, Yellow Clematis
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    Eastern Arborvitae, White Cedar, Arborvitae, American Arborvitae Thuja occidentalis
    Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

    The foliage forms in flat sprays with scale-like leaves 3-5 mm long. * Tolerant of regular trimming, though not into the old wood, it can be grown as a hedge. This essential oil also has insect repellent properties.
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    • Crop Year: 2016
    • Germination: 77%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 275
    • Germination Test Type: estimate
    • Seeds Per Pound: 364,624
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    Eastern Arborvitae, White Cedar, Arborvitae, American Arborvitae Thuja occidentalis
    Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

    The foliage forms in flat sprays with scale-like leaves 3-5 mm long. * Tolerant of regular trimming, though not into the old wood, it can be grown as a hedge. This essential oil also has insect repellent properties.
    • Genus: Thuja
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 275
    • Family: Cupressaceae
    • Quantity: 8.89 lb
    • Germination: 77%
    • Seeds Per Pound: 364,624
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    Comfrey, Common Comfrey Symphytum officinale
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The peeled roots are cut up and added to soups. * The hardy plant can grow to a height of 60 cm.Comfrey has been used in folk medicine as a poultice for treating burns and wounds.
    • Lot#: 030443
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
    • Botanical Name: Symphytum officinale
    • Genus: Symphytum
    • Quantity: 0.46 lb
    • Collection Locale: Germany
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    Comfrey, Common Comfrey Symphytum officinale
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The peeled roots are cut up and added to soups. * The hardy plant can grow to a height of 60 cm.Comfrey has been used in folk medicine as a poultice for treating burns and wounds.
    • Common Name: Comfrey, Common Comfrey
    • Height: 3-4 feet
    • Germination Test Type: Actual
    • Family: Boraginaceae
    • Genus: Symphytum
    • Species: officinale
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    Allegheny Monkeyflower, Square-stemmed Monkeyflower Mimulus ringens
    Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The flower looks something like a monkeys face, hence the common and genus names, the latter from the Latin mimus (a buffoon). * Best naturalized in moist to wet soils in water gardens, bog gardens, wet meadows, water margins or low spots.
    • Botanical Name: Mimulus ringens
    • Genus: Mimulus
    • Family: Scrophulariaceae
    • Height: 2-3 feet
    • Species: ringens
    • Germination Test Type: Actual
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    Crimson Pitcherplant, White Pitcher Plant Sarracenia leucophylla
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    Leucophylla produces crimson flowers in the spring before its characteristically small spring pitchers. * Sarracenia leucophylla , also known as the white pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia .
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
    • Collection Locale: North Carolina
    • Height: 1-3 feet
    • Germination: 91%
    • Common Name: Crimson Pitcherplant, White Pitcher Plant
    • Species: leucophylla
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    Delavays Fir, Delavay\'s Fir Abies delavayi delavayi
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    * It is a high altitude mountain tree, growing at altitudes of 3,000-4,000 meters, often occupying the tree line . * Needles to 1" long, in 2 rows forming a trough; barrel-shaped cones, 4", dark violet-black.
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Botanical Name: Abies delavayi delavayi
    • Lot#: 9701
    • Variety: delavayi
    • Genus: Abies
    • Collection Locale: China
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    Greek Fir Abies cephalonica
    Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Greek Fir was important in the past for wood for general construction. * Greek Fir is native to the mountains of Greece, primarily in the Peloponnesos and the island of Kefallonia, * It is grown as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens.
    • Height: 80-120 feet
    • Seeds Per Pound: 7,264
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Quantity: 0.83 lb
    • Family: PINACEAE
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    Allegheny Monkeyflower, Square-stemmed Monkeyflower Mimulus ringens
    Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The flower looks something like a monkeys face, hence the common and genus names, the latter from the Latin mimus (a buffoon). * Best naturalized in moist to wet soils in water gardens, bog gardens, wet meadows, water margins or low spots.
    • Collection Locale: Pennsylvania
    • Genus: Mimulus
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    • Species: ringens
    • Seeds Per Pound: 36,800,000
    • Germination: 88%
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