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Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet  Fontanesia fortunei     - Fontanesia phillyreoides fortunei
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...
  • Genus: Fontanesia
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Family: OLEACEAE
  • Crop Year: 1997
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
Iowa
Des Moines
Sea Buckthorn, Seaberry Hippophae rhamnoides     - Elaeagnus rhamnoides
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* The fruit is eaten raw or cooked. The orange berries are edible and nutritious, loaded with vitamins, amino acids and antioxidants. In western Europe, it is largely confined to sea coasts where salt spray off the sea prevents other larger plants from...
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Botanical Name: Hippophae rhamnoides
  • Germination: 91%
  • Common Name: Sea Buckthorn, Seaberry
  • Genus: Hippophae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
Iowa
Des Moines
Chinese Juniper Juniperus chinensis
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

Bonsai trees are just formed from normal tree seedlings trimmed and trained to stay in their miniature state. Multiple trunks are common and they can be adapted to a variety of styles.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 23,708
  • Germination: 71%
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 36
  • Genus: Juniperus
  • Germination Test Type: cut
Iowa
Des Moines
Gray Dogwood, Northern Swamp Dogwood Cornus racemosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Plants can produce many stems and suckers, with older stems, which can reach 5 metres (16 ft) in height, having distinctive gray bark. Red stem color is more easily seen after the fruits are gone, and red color often persists into early winter.
  • Quantity: 29.5 lb
  • Family: Cornaceae
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Genus: Cornus
  • Collection Locale: Jackson Co, MN
Iowa
Des Moines
Comfrey, Common Comfrey Symphytum officinale
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* A perennial herb with 8" leaves covered with prickly hairs; flowers to 1/2", yellowish white, pink, or purplish, in summer, in nodding clusters; rather coarse; likes rich, moist, limestone soils; native to Europe, where it is used medicinally; a weed...
  • Common Name: Comfrey, Common Comfrey
  • Lot#: 030443
  • Genus: Symphytum
  • Botanical Name: Symphytum officinale
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 22
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
Iowa
Des Moines
Wooly Summer-sweet, Wooly Summer Sweet Clethra tomentosa
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Well worth growing if you have the right spot to enjoy its fragrant blooms. * This flowering shrub is native to the eastern United States, likes a moist shady location.
  • Family: CLETHRACEAE
  • Quantity: 0.21 lb
  • Collection Locale: OH
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Seeds Per Pound: 3,246,100
  • Botanical Name: Clethra tomentosa
Iowa
Des Moines
Kiwi Fruit, Chinese Gooseberry, Kiwi Actinidia chinensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It was first grown commercially in New Zealand, where it has been superseded by Actinidia deliciosa, or Kiwifruit. They are used in the treatment of stones in the urinary tract, rheumatoid arthralgia, cancers of the liver and oesophagus.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Genus: Actinidia
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination: 98%
  • Species: chinensis
  • Botanical Name: Actinidia chinensis
Iowa
Des Moines
Western Azalea Rhododendron occidentale
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

The Western Azalea is known to occur as far north as Bandon , Oregon . * Rhododendron occidentale ( Western Azalea ) is one of two deciduous Rhododendron species native to western North America (the other is Rhododendron albiflorum ).
  • Botanical Name: Rhododendron occidentale
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Germination: 30%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 220
  • Height: 10-15 feet
  • Family: Ericaceae
Iowa
Des Moines
Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet  Fontanesia fortunei     - Fontanesia phillyreoides fortunei
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Purity: 96%
  • Family: OLEACEAE
  • Crop Year: 1997
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 104
  • Height: 10-15ft
Iowa
Des Moines
Red Bay, Sweet Bay, Swamp Bay, Laurel Tree, Tisswood, Florida Mahogany Persea borbonia
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

These trees are capable of producing fruit that is a small, blue or black drupe. The leaves vary in color from bright green to dark green. It weighs 40lb per cubic foot. It is an evergreen tree that is native to the Southeastern United States in North...
  • Genus: Persea
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,103
  • Species: borbonia
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: Persea borbonia
  • Quantity: 2.46 lb
Iowa
Des Moines
Spruce Pine Pinus glabra
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Pinus glabra differs markedly from most other pines in that it does not occur in largely pure pine forests, but is typically found as scattered trees in moist woodland habitats in mixed hardwood forest.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 17
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Purity: 98%
  • Germination: 91%
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Height: 60-100 feet
Iowa
Des Moines
Japanese Aralia, Japanese Angelica Tree Aralia elata
Price : CALL

They can also be blanched and used in salads. * Spiny stems, leaves to 30" long, white flowers. * The young shoots can be eaten cooked. * It is an upright deciduous small tree or shrub growing up to 6 m in height, native to eastern Russia , China , Korea...
  • Genus: Aralia
  • Species: elata
  • Height: 10-20 feet
  • Botanical Name: Aralia elata dried berries
Iowa
Des Moines
Pinkshell Rhododendron, Pinkshell Azalea Rhododendron vaseyi
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.
  • Purity: 97%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 251
  • Crop Year: 2011
  • Germination: 30%
  • Species: vaseyi
  • Family: Ericaceae
Iowa
Des Moines
Gray Dogwood, Northern Swamp Dogwood Cornus racemosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Plants can produce many stems and suckers, with older stems, which can reach 5 metres (16 ft) in height, having distinctive gray bark. Red stem color is more easily seen after the fruits are gone, and red color often persists into early winter.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Seeds Per Pound: 15,436
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 31
  • Quantity: 29.5 lb
  • Germination: 91%
  • Height: 10 feet
Iowa
Des Moines
Japanese Spicebush Lindera obtusiloba
Price : CALL

Red, globose, about 5/16 in. * An oil obtained from the plant is used as a hair oil. Yellow, opening before the leaves, fr. Broad-ovate, to 5 in. It is a spreading deciduous shrub or small tree growing to 6 m (20 ft) tall and wide, with glossy aromatic...
  • Family: LAURACEAE
  • Genus: Lindera
  • Botanical Name: Lindera obtusiloba
  • Common Name: Japanese Spicebush
Iowa
Des Moines
Manchurian Ash Fraxinus mandshurica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This tree is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental tree in parts of Canada and the United States. * The species is being tested as a potential source of genes for resistance to emerald ash borer.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 16
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 2
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Germination: 83%
  • Common Name: Manchurian Ash
  • Collection Locale: China
Iowa
Des Moines
European Aspen Populus tremula
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

The bark is pale greenish-grey and smooth on young trees with dark grey diamond-shaped lenticels , becoming dark grey and fissured on older trees. * It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 10–25 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter.
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Botanical Name: Populus tremula
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 256
  • Germination: 30%
  • Common Name: European Aspen
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
Iowa
Des Moines
White Ash, Biltmore Ash, Biltmore White Ash, Cane Ash Fraxinus americana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Europe, as a timber tree. It is also used to make lobster traps. * A handsome tree with dark green compound leaves, yellow to red- purple in fall; dark gray bark with a diamond pattern of furrows.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 9
  • Purity: 96%
  • Species: americana
  • Quantity: 8.03 lb
  • Crop Year: 2004
  • Germination: 10%
Iowa
Des Moines
Japanese Andromeda, Japanese Pieris Pieris japonica
Price : CALL

The flowers are white, borne in early spring. * Pieris japonica is a shrub with alternate, simple leaves , on brittle stems. * Woodland Garden Dappled Shade; Shady Edge; not Deep Shade.
  • Height: 6-12 feet
  • Genus: Pieris
  • Family: Ericaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
Iowa
Des Moines
Scarlet Elderberry, Red Elderberry Sambucus pubens     - Sambucus racemosa  pubens
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Fruits are attractive to wildlife. * Sambucus racemosa, commonly known as red elder or red elderberry, is a deciduous suckering shrub which typically grows to 8-12' tall with a somewhat sprawling habit.
  • Height: 8-12 feet
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Collection Locale: New York
  • Seeds Per Pound: 261,050
  • Quantity: 0.16 lb
  • Common Name: Scarlet Elderberry, Red Elderberry
Iowa
Des Moines
Douglas Maple, Rocky Mountain Maple ACER glabrum
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Native to mountains from Alaska to California. * Yellow fall color. * It is in flower in April, and the seeds ripen in September. * A decidious Tree growing to 9 m.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 30 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Seeds Per Pound: 11,947
  • Common Name: Douglas Maple, Rocky Mountain Maple
  • Germination: 50%
Iowa
Des Moines
Strawberry Clover, Palestine Strawberry Clover Trifolium fragiferum  Palestine
Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

* It can be slow to establish but it will hold up to grazing, high saline soils, wet soils and can take some shade. * Palestine Strawberry Clover was developed in Australia and is very tolerant of adverse conditions.
  • Collection Locale: Australia
  • Seeds Per Pound: 306,450
  • Variety: Palestine
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Height: 12 to 14 inches
  • Quantity: 19.8 lb
Iowa
Des Moines
Corkwood Leitneria floridana
Price : CALL

It has narrow-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate leaves, 12-20cm long, and small flowers appear in slender greyish catkins in spring; male and female borne on separate plants. This is one of the lightest known woods, it weighs about 12½lb per cubic foot,...
  • Species: floridana
  • Common Name: Corkwood
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Family: Leitneriaceae
Iowa
Des Moines
Evergreen Sweetbay Magnolia Magnolia virginiana  australis
Price : CALL

* It was the first magnolia to be scientifically described, and is the type species of the genus Magnolia ; as Magnolia is also the type genus of all flowering plants , this species can be seen to typify all flowering plants.
  • Botanical Name: Magnolia virginiana australis
  • Variety: australis
  • Common Name: Evergreen Sweetbay Magnolia
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Family: Magnoliaceae
Iowa
Des Moines
Japanese Andromeda, Japanese Pieris Pieris japonica
Price : CALL

The flowers are white, borne in early spring. * Pieris japonica is a shrub with alternate, simple leaves , on brittle stems. * Woodland Garden Dappled Shade; Shady Edge; not Deep Shade.
  • Family: Ericaceae
  • Height: 6-12 feet
  • Genus: Pieris
  • Common Name: Japanese Andromeda, Japanese Pieris
Iowa
Des Moines
Florida Paspalum Paspalum floridanum
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

The inflorescence is a panicle with up to 6 branches. The leaf blades are up to 52 centimeters long and may be hairless to hairy, with a dense coating of hairs behind the ligules. * This rhizomatous perennial grass has stems which can exceed two meters...
  • Seeds Per Pound: 139,832
  • Collection Locale: Georgia
  • Species: floridanum
  • Quantity: 1.95 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Family: Poaceae
Iowa
Des Moines
European Aspen Populus tremula
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

The bark is pale greenish-grey and smooth on young trees with dark grey diamond-shaped lenticels , becoming dark grey and fissured on older trees. * It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 10–25 m tall, with a trunk up to 1 m diameter.
  • Genus: Populus
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Species: tremula
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Height: 60-70 feet
  • Family: Salicaceae
Iowa
Des Moines