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Pearl Bush, Sawtooth Pearlbush , Pearl Tree Exochorda serratifolia
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* This species of pearlbush is an early-blooming, upright deciduous shrub that is native to Manchuria and Korea. 'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled white flowers (to 2" diameter)...
  • Family: ROSACEAE
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Botanical Name: Exochorda serratifolia
  • Height: 6-8ft
  • Quantity: 1.54 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 40,406
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Chinese Pistache, Chinese Pistach Pistacia chinensis    China
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Foliage dark green in summer, orange or orange red in fall. * Doesn't mind heat and drought; grows quickly. * In the low-elevation deserts of Arizona, it is the only tree whose leaves turn scarlet in fall.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 5,902
  • Species: chinensis
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 25
  • Family: Anacardiaceae
  • Purity: 99%
  • Location: China
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Cork Oak Quercus suber
Price : CALL

It is native to southwest Europe and northwest Africa. Wine corks represent 15% of cork usage by weight but 66% of revenues. * The harvesting of cork does not harm the tree, in fact, no trees are cut down during the harvesting process.
  • Common Name: Cork Oak
  • Family: Fagaceae
  • Botanical Name: Quercus suber
  • Height: 40-60 feet
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Maxipinon, Big-cone Pinyon, Martinez Pinyon Pinus maximartinezii
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* It differs from all other pinyon species in that it has very massive cones and large seeds. In cultivation, leaves up to 23 cm long may be produced. * Because of its isolation in a remote area, it escaped discovery until 1964.
  • Botanical Name: Pinus maximartinezii
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Height: 20-45 feet
  • Common Name: Maxipinon, Big-cone Pinyon, Martinez Pinyon
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Needle Juniper, Temple Juniper, Temple Juniper Juniperus rigida
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* An attractive, variable plant, often with a vertical central leader, horizontal side branches, and drooping branchlets; a loose, open habit; sharp, needlelike bright green foliage; native to Japan, Korea, North China * Succeeds in most soils if they...
  • Common Name: Needle Juniper, Temple Juniper, Temple Juniper
  • Height: 20-30 feet
  • Family: Cupressaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
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Common Hackberry Celtis occidentalis    Europe
Price : CALL

* Celtis occidentalis, commonly known as the Common hackberry, is a large deciduous tree native to North America. American Indians ate them with parched corn. * Ridjica and Sombor in Serbia (where it is called kustelic or galagunja) and Bratislava, the...
  • Height: 60-130 feet
  • Botanical Name: Celtis occidentalis Europe
  • Genus: Celtis
  • Common Name: Common Hackberry
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
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Maxipinon, Big-cone Pinyon, Martinez Pinyon Pinus maximartinezii
Price : CALL

* It differs from all other pinyon species in that it has very massive cones and large seeds. In cultivation, leaves up to 23 cm long may be produced. * Because of its isolation in a remote area, it escaped discovery until 1964.
  • Botanical Name: Pinus maximartinezii
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Height: 20-45 feet
  • Family: Pinaceae
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Utah Juniper Juniperus osteosperma     - Juniperus utahensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A wax on the fruit is obtained by simmering the fruit in hot water and skimming off the wax as it rises to the surface. It is native to the southwestern United States , in Utah , Nevada , Arizona , western New Mexico , western Colorado , Wyoming , southern...
  • Botanical Name: Juniperus osteosperma
  • Genus: Juniperus
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination: 50%
  • Family: Cupressaceae
  • Crop Year: 2012
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Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet  Fontanesia fortunei     - Fontanesia phillyreoides fortunei
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish plant, but extremely tough and vigorous; useful for highways and urban sites; native to China.
  • Height: 10-15ft
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Quantity: 0.43 lb
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Seeds Per Pound: 54,026
  • Purity: 96%
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Choctawhatchee Sand Pine, Sand Pine Pinus clausa    Choctawhatchee
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Pinus clausa ( Sand Pine , Sandhill Pine ) is a small, often shrubby tree from 5–10 m (16–33 ft), exceptionally to 21 m (69 ft) tall, found in two separate locations, one across central peninsular Florida , and the other in the western Florida panhandle...
  • Germination: 98%
  • Species: clausa
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Choctawhatchee Sand Pine, Sand Pine
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Botanical Name: Pinus clausa Choctawhatchee
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Matucana Peruvian Torch Cactus, Matucana Peruvian Torch Trichocereus peruvianus  Matucana
Prices start at : 12.95 USD / 1 packet

* The active compound is 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine or mescaline which was reported at a concentration of 1.2% in the dried cactus. * The human use of the cactus dates back thousands of years to the northern coast of Peru and the monks of a pre-Inca...
  • Variety: Matucana
  • Collection Locale: Peru
  • Botanical Name: Trichocereus peruvianus Matucana
  • Common Name: Matucana Peruvian Torch Cactus, Matucana Peruvian Torch
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Crop Year: 2016
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White Fringetree, Old Man\'s Beard, Grancy Grey Beard Chionanthus virginicus
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

The fruit is up to 18mm long, it has a thin pulp and contains 1 - 3 rounded seeds. * 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...
  • Germination: 98%
  • Collection Locale: S. New Jersey
  • Genus: Chionanthus
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,906
  • Purity: 99%
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Smooth-bark Mexican Pine Pinus pseudostrobus
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* Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico. From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa , Mexico to Honduras . It has been introduced in New Zealand near sea level and has done well.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Family: PINACEAE
  • Species: pseudostrobus
  • Botanical Name: Pinus pseudostrobus
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Bigtooth Maple, Lost Maple, Sabinal Maple, Western Sugar Maple, Uvalde Big Tooth Maple, Canyon Maple, Southwestern Big Tooth Maple, Plateau Big Tooth Maple, Limerock Maple, Wasatch Maple, Rocky Mountain Sugar Maple ACER grandidentatum
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* Native to the Rocky Mountains in North America. * It is closely related to Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple).
  • Height: 30-50 feet
  • Species: grandidentatum
  • Botanical Name: ACER grandidentatum
  • Family: Aceraceae
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Sweetfern, Sweet Fern, Sweet-fern Comptonia peregrina
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* t is a deciduous shrub, growing to 1.5 m tall. * The common name is Sweetfern or Sweet-fern, a confusing name as it is not a fern. * Comptonia is a monotypic genus (containing only Comptonia peregrina ) in the family Myricaceae , order Fagales .
  • Height: 4-5 feet
  • Common Name: Sweetfern, Sweet Fern, Sweet-fern
  • Family: Myricaceae
  • Purity: 99%
  • Germination: 98%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 25,424
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Aleppo Pine, Jerusalem Pine Pinus halepensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is a popular ornamental tree , extensively planted in parks and gardens in hot dry areas such as southern California. * Thrives in a light well-drained sandy or gravelly loam.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 3.71 lb
  • Height: 80-100 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 45
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Species: halepensis
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Texas Live Oak, Plateau Oak, Escarpment Live Oak Quercus fusiformis
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

The tree is generally accepted to be the hardiest evergreen oak, able to withstand very cold winters with minimal leaf burn in areas as cold as USDA zone 6a. * Leaves are evergreen, firm textured, ovate to elliptic, 1 to 3 inches long; usually without...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Botanical Name: Quercus fusiformis
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Fagaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 128
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 5
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European Columbine, Columbine, Dwarf Columbine Aquilegia vulgaris  Double Mix
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

The seed can be slow to germinate. * The plant is short lived but self sows freely producing a good quantity of seed each year. * This mixed wildflower perennial is a double form of columbine that has been used in gardens for a long time, due to its curious...
  • Crop Year: 2005
  • Quantity: 1.28 lb
  • Species: vulgaris
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 57
  • Height: 2-4 feet
  • Purity: 98%
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Gray Dogwood, Northern Swamp Dogwood Cornus racemosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Cornus racemosa ( Northern Swamp Dogwood or Gray Dogwood ) is a shrubby plant species growing to 5 m tall. * Many species of birds feed on the fruits. Red stem color is more easily seen after the fruits are gone, and red color often persists into early...
  • Quantity: 29.5 lb
  • Germination: 91%
  • Common Name: Gray Dogwood, Northern Swamp Dogwood
  • Purity: 99%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 31
  • Genus: Cornus
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Niagara Big Bluestem Andropogon gerardii   Niagara
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Big bluestem is tolerant of a wide range of soils and moisture. Depending on soil and moisture conditions, it grows to a height of 1 – 3m (3 – 10 ft) . * Big Bluestem is a perennial grass.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Common Name: Niagara Big Bluestem
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 156,876
  • Species: gerardii
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Common Juniper Juniperus communis
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard seeds in their droppings. The male cones are yellow, 2–3 mm long, and fall soon after shedding their pollen in March–April.
  • Height: 5-30 feet
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Family: Cupressaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 74
  • Crop Year: 2012
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 2
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Cuyamaca Cypress Cupressus arizonica  stephensonii   - Cupressus stephensonii
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is an IUCN Red List Critically endangered species, and a California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants listed Seriously endangered species. The entire native (world) population of the tree was reduced down to thirty to forty...
  • Genus: Cupressus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 12
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Height: 30-50 feet
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 39,952
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Holly Oak, Ballota Oak, Holm Oak Quercus ilex
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Also known as the Holly Oak it is underrated as a bonsai. * It is a member of the white oak section of the genus, with acorns that mature in a single summer. * Quercus ilex , the Holm Oak or Holly Oak is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean...
  • Common Name: Holly Oak, Ballota Oak, Holm Oak
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Height: 60-90 feet
  • Species: ilex
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Oriental Hornbeam Carpinus orientalis
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

* Carpinus orientalis (Oriental Hornbeam) is a hornbeam native from southeastern Europe to northern Iran and occurs usually on hot dry sites at lower altitudes in comparison to the European Hornbeam.
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Seeds Per Pound: 21,056
  • Genus: Carpinus
  • Botanical Name: Carpinus orientalis
  • Common Name: Oriental Hornbeam
  • Germination: 83%
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Caspian Locust, Persian Honey Locust Gleditsia caspia     - Gleditsia caspica
Price : CALL

* Gleditsia caspica ( Caspian Locust or Persian Honeylocust ) is a species of Gleditsia native to western Asia , in the Caucasus region of Azerbaijan and northern Iran , close to the Caspian Sea .
  • Quantity: 2.08 lb
  • Height: 30-35 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 10
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Seeds Per Pound: 2,270
  • Common Name: Caspian Locust, Persian Honey Locust
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Holly Oak, Ballota Oak, Holm Oak Quercus ilex
Price : CALL

Also known as the Holly Oak it is underrated as a bonsai. * It is a member of the white oak section of the genus, with acorns that mature in a single summer. * Quercus ilex , the Holm Oak or Holly Oak is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Species: ilex
  • Common Name: Holly Oak, Ballota Oak, Holm Oak
  • Height: 60-90 feet
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Milkflower Cotoneaster, Parney Cotoneaster Cotoneaster coriaceus     - Cotoneaster lacteus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A very ornamental plant, it is hardy to about -15°c. * Shrubs evergreen, 1–3 m tall. Petiole 4–8 mm, initially densely yellow tomentose, subglabrous when old; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, sparsely tomentose or glabrescent at fruiting;...
  • Common Name: Milkflower Cotoneaster, Parney Cotoneaster
  • Quantity: 0.23 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Crop Year: 1998
  • Lot#: 9804
  • Family: Rosaceae
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