Salt Tolerant Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Grand Rapids

* The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.

* Very tolerant of pruning and maritime exposure, it can be grown as a wind resistant hedge. Inside are black seeds in a bed of resinous pulp. It can also be trimmed into a hedge .

The flowers attract bees and other pollinators. In the coldest portions of their range, zone 5-6, Vitex are grown as die back perennials that regrow each spring to flower in summer.

* The leaves are used for making baskets, chair seats or thatch. The best quality is from young leaf stalks still in the bud, whilst coarser material is obtained from older leaves or the bases of old leaf stalks surrounding the bud.

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

Always seek advice from a professional before using a plant medicinally. * Narrow linear leaves to 3", silver green; small bright orange fruit that last through winter; prefers sandy infertile soil, moist underneath; salt tolerant, so good along roads...

It is an evergreen plant, though the number of leaves is greatly diminished during the winter. The plant is notable for its photosynthetic stems and its seed distribution method. Requires shade from the midday sun.

When prescribed internally it is always used dried and in conjunction with fresh ginger root. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

* Ginseng has a history of herbal use going back over 5,000 years. * Ginseng is characterized by the presence of ginsenosides. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Panax ginseng for lack of stamina.

* It is cultivated for its large, showy flowers, and tolerance of hot, dry climates. * The young pliable twigs are woven into baskets. Although the natural growth is a very irregular shape, it can be readily pruned into a conventional tree shape.

* The fruit extract of Gleditsia sinensis also has inhibitory effects on isolated cancer cell cultures. A lupane acid extracted from the thorns showed in vitro anti-HIV activity. The thorns of Gleditsia sinensis LAM.

* 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...

* Celtis australis is supposed to have been the Lotus of the ancients, whose fruit Herodotus, Dioscorides, and Theophrastus describe as sweet, pleasant, and wholesome. * The flexible thin shoots are used as walking sticks.

* Flowering period during the summer is long, attrracting many pollinators. * Bearsfoot root was used by the North American Indians as a stimulant and laxative remedy. * A poultice of the bruised root has been used as a dressing and salve on burns, inflammations...

It is also found in more mature successions dominated by sagebrush and shadscale. * The ground up seed can also be mixed with water and drunk as a refreshing beverage. * The burnt green herb yields culinary ashes high in minerals and these are used by...

They are used in small quantities as a flavouring in soups and stews, with vegetables such as peas and spinach, and with sweet dishes such as biscuits cakes, jams and jellies. They can be used fresh or dried.The leaves have a tough texture and so should...

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads.

The red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds. * Common in thickets and in thin secondary forests in lowlands and low mountains of central and southern Japan.

Extracts of the plant show antitumour activity. The fruit is antibacterial, antiseptic, antitumour, cardiotonic, diuretic and tonic. It is taken internally in the treatment of complaints associated with weak kidney and liver energy such as menopausal...

* The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. * Leaves can be eaten raw or cooked. Ptarmica yields an essential oil that is used in herbal medicine. * So called because the roots were once ground for snuff.

The ants take the seeds to their nest, where they eat the elaiosomes, and put the seeds in their nest debris, where they are protected until they germinate. It was used as a face paint by the North American Indians.

* The Subalpine Fir or Rocky Mountain Fir ( Abies lasiocarpa ) is a western North American fir , native to the mountains of Yukon , British Columbia and western Alberta in Canada Conservation Plant Characteristics Abies lasiocarpa (Hook.) Nutt.

The cones are cylindric-conic, 6-15 cm long and 2-3 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, rounded to bluntly pointed scales. * Light blue to light green foliage, 3/4" needles; in habit a broad column, narrowing toward...

The most prominent landscaping feature in London's historic Highgate Cemetery is its "Circle of Lebanon", where a Lebanon Cedar stands in the centre of a circular trench cut into the ground and lined with mausoleums.

* Holly is a popular winter Christmas and holiday season decoration. * American holly is the state tree of Delaware. It is abundant further south on the southern coast and in the Gulf states, reaching its greatest size on the bottomlands of southern Arkansas...

* Elaeagnus commutata ( American Silverberry or Wolf-willow ), is a species of Elaeagnus native to western North America , from southern Alaska through British Columbia east to Manitoba , and south to Utah and across the upper Midwestern United States...

The leaves area safe and effective cathartic. The root is cardiac and febrifuge. They are best used with Foeniculum vulgare seeds in order to counteract a tendency to cause gripe. The leaves are harvested before and during flowering, the pods are harvested...