Salt Tolerant Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Chicago

* A decoction of the flowering shoots is used in the treatment of coughs and women's complaints. * Bright green stems in winter, bright yellow 1 1/2" flowers in spring, bright green leaves in summer; flowers in full shade, although it gets sloppy and...

This is a vigorous growing, exceptionally cold hardy Big Leaf Hydrangea introduced by Dr. Michael Dirr. Actually it is the availability of Aluminum in the soil which is required for Hydrangea macrophylla to produce the color pigment delphinidin.

* A maple native to much of Europe , north to southern England (where it is the only native maple), Denmark , Poland and Belarus , and also southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus , and north Africa in the Atlas Mountains.

* It is found at elevations ranging from sea level to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), most commonly from 250–1,600 metres (820–5,250 ft). The bark is grey to yellow-brown, and is widely split by flaking fissures into scaly plates, becoming increasingly fissured...

The fibres are up to 50cm long, they are harvested commercially and used to make brushes, especially where these have to remain stiff in hot water or caustics. An excellent fibre is obtained from the leaf stalks.

Odorum , but the character is not constant and it is no longer regarded as a separate taxon. * Oleander grows to 2–6 m (6.6–20 ft) tall, with spreading to erect branches. The fruit is a long narrow capsule 5–23 cm (2.0–9.1 in) long, which splits...

The red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds. * Can be grown as a small ornamental tree. * Common in thickets and in thin secondary forests in lowlands and low mountains of central and southern Japan.

These two small populations represent what was once a very large forest on the west coast. In the wild, the species is confined to two small populations, near Monterey and Carmel .

* Tolerates maritime exposure. * A very easily grown plant, succeeding in any ordinary garden soil in sun or partial shade. * A strong fibre is obtained from the stems, it is used for making string, bags, paper etc.

Although the natural growth is a very irregular shape, it can be readily pruned into a conventional tree shape. * Chilopsis is a genus of flowering plant , containing a single species , Chilopsis linearis .

It is adaptogenic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and diuretic. * The root bark contains saponins, acanthosides, cardiac glycosides and polysaccharides. It is used in Korea in the treatment of lumbago, neuralgia, arthritis and oedema.

* Open forests, slopes, meadows, stream sides. * A versatile mid sized, prolific flowering shrub that is quite cold hardy. Leaves usually solitary at axils on current year's growth, clustered on older branchlets; leaf blade linear-lanceolate, broadly...

It is also commonly planted as an ornamental, especially in xeriscapes. * The flowers are the most striking feature, being sweetly fragrant white trumpets up to 20 cm (8 inches) long, often tinted purple, especially at the margin.

Roseus can be extremely toxic if consumed orally by humans. * It is native and endemic to Madagascar, but grown elsewhere as an ornamental and medicinal plant, a source of the drugs vincristineand vinblastine, used to treat cancer.

* The fruit can be used as a pickle like olives. * Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native to the southeastern United States but hardy nearly everywhere; dark green leaf sometimes...

It needs full sun to grow well, is intolerant of shade, and is resistant to snow and ice damage. A widely used landscape tree especially in the Midwest and East. * Pinus nigra is a large coniferous evergreen tree, growing to 20–55 metres (66–180 ft)...

It was much used by the North American Indians and acquired a reputation as a heal-all amongst the earlier white settlers. Its main use in present day herbalism is for relieving the pain and inflammation of pleurisy.

* 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...

* The fruit can be used as a pickle like olives. * Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native to the southeastern United States but hardy nearly everywhere; dark green leaf sometimes...

* Tolerates maritime exposure. * A very easily grown plant, succeeding in any ordinary garden soil in sun or partial shade. * A strong fibre is obtained from the stems, it is used for making string, bags, paper etc.

As a result of its ready dispersal by sea, Entada rheedii is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical countries, but strangely not the Americas. The inner meat of the seed would be either consumed directly, or the meat would be chopped, dried, mixed...

* Requires a well-drained sandy soil and a sunny position. * The leaves are used for flavouring rice dumplings. Established plants are drought tolerant.

Image courtesy of Star Roses. Vigorous, disease and pest resistant shrubs, Vitex are tolerant of a wide range of soil types and growing conditions and this one is small enough for nearly any garden or even medium to large containers.

Taxol has shown exciting potential as an anti-cancer drug, particularly in the treatment of ovarian cancers. * Modern research has shown that it contains the substance 'taxol' in its shoots and bark.

There are up to five fairly large seeds in the centre of the fruit, these often stick together and so the effect is of eating a cherry-like fruit with a single seed. * This is a compact erect bushy shrub covered in fan-shaped green leaves with teeth along...

* Used to make the strong, springy curved "enju wood" handle used on the traditional Japanese woodworking adze, called the chouna. * This species is commonly used in Chinese medicine and is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs.

* The bark is soft, flaky, tessellated, light brown or yellow-brown, where smooth, greyish white or yellowish above. * Eucalyptus cloeziana, Gympie Messmate, is a small to tall tree with rough bark on most or the whole of the trunk and larger branches.