Salt Tolerant Plant Evergreen Plant For Sale In San Francisco

* The seed is used in pinole or ground into a meal and used as a thickener in making bread or mixed with flour in making bread. * The leaves are cooked and used as greens. The water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding .

* Being a monocotyledon, it does not display any annual or growth rings so the age of the tree can only be estimated by the number of branching points before reaching the canopy. * Dracaena draco is a monocot with a tree-like growth habit currently placed...

This tree transplants well. * Unlike most species of pine. * Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from...

* This variety has pale green leaves and rounder cones than the species. * Maritime pine is closely related to Turkish pine, Canary Island pine and Aleppo pine, which all share many features with it.

It generally occurs at low altitudes, mostly from sea level to 600 metres (2,000 ft), up to 1,200 metres (3,900 ft) in the south of its range. * It is widely planted for timber, both in its native area (it is the most important tree in forestry in Turkey)...

The needles are a half inch in length in groups of five and grow in a brilliant bright green color in tufts on branch tips. It needs some special care but will create a striking landscape plant.

They are leathery, hairless, and darker and shinier on the upper surfaces. Inside are black seeds in a bed of resinous pulp. It is native to Japan but it is used throughout the world as an ornamental plant in landscaping and as cut foliage .

Suggested mechanisms to explain this include stimulation of venous alpha 1 and 2 adrenoreceptors and decreased capillary permeability. * Mature shoots are bound into bunches and used as scourers or as besoms.

* Peruvian Torch ( Trichocereus peruvianus ) is found high in the Andean mountain deserts of Peru and Ecuador and is similar to the San Pedro cactus ( Trichocereus pachanoi ) which is found in the same region.

* It grows west of the Sierra Nevada from Mendocino County , California , south to northern Baja California in Mexico . Though 95% of cached acorns are found and eaten, remaining acorns have high germination and survival rates because they are typically...

* It was one of the first trees introduced to North America, in about 1600. * Scots pine is an important tree in forestry. The wood is used for pulp and sawn timber products. * Scots pine is the only pine native to northern Europe.

* The leaves are used as an insect repellent. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. * The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.

* Small, delicate plant forms a rounded mound, often loose and open; evergreen; 3" flowers in May, parents of this strain have flowers in variations of pink and purple; acid soil, good drainage; in the U.S. needs light shade in the North, more shade in...

* Cupressus macrocarpa , commonly known as Monterey Cypress or Macrocarpa , is a species of cypress endemic to the central coast of California . These two small populations represent what was once a very large forest on the west coast.

* The tree reaches its best development in the Gympie region, where some magnificent forest trees attain heights near 60 metres. * The bark is soft, flaky, tessellated, light brown or yellow-brown, where smooth, greyish white or yellowish above.

They are usually multi-stemmed with an open and loosely rounded crown. It is native to northern Burma and China, but is sometimes grown in western gardens where it has been in cultivation since 1848.

* An attractive shrub or small tree with a short trunk; 2" needles; contorted branches reaching nearly to the ground; of broadly conical form; dark green, much planted in Europe; "an excellent garden tree" (Wyman); native to coastal North America from...

* It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions. They keep their blue color well after drying. * This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers.

A tea made from the berries has a spicy gin-like flavour. The male cones are yellow, 2–3 mm long, and fall soon after shedding their pollen in March–April. Common Juniper has needle-like leaves in whorls of three; the leaves are green, with a single...

* Maritime pine is closely related to Turkish pine, Canary Island pine and Aleppo pine, which all share many features with it. * In addition to industrial uses, maritime pine is also a popular ornamental tree, often planted in parks and gardens in areas...

One way to distinguish between them is by their cones. * It is named in honor of its botanist documenter John Jeffrey. The sharp Jeffrey pine cone scale barbs point inward, so the cone feels smooth to the palm of one's hand when rubbed down the cone.

* 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...

* The leaves have a very strong flavour that is bitter and somewhat resinous, the flowers are somewhat milder. They can be used fresh or dried.The leaves have a tough texture and so should either be used very finely chopped, or in sprigs that can be removed...

* Common names for this species include Poinciana , Peacock Flower , Red Bird of Paradise , Mexican Bird of Paradise , Dwarf Poinciana , Pride of Barbados , and flamboyan-de-jardin .

Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. * Shrubs evergreen, 1–3 m tall. They are very attractive to bees whilst the fruit is a good winter food source for many species of birds.

Vigorous, disease and pest resistant shrubs that can be trained into small trees, Vitex are tolerant of a wide range of soil types and growing conditions. A compact, medium sized, well-branched and full deciduous shrub or die-back perennial in the coldest...

Cerifera' s root system is fire-resistant. As of 1991, no known fire has killed this plant's roots. Specimens in drier and sandier areas are shrub-like, have rhizomes and smaller leaves than usual.