Shade Tolerant Plant Evergreen Plant For Sale In Oakland

* The seed cones are berry -like, green ripening in 18 months to purple-black with a blue waxy coating; they are spherical, 4–12 mm diameter, and usually have three (occasionally six) fused scales, each scale with a single seed .

* An excellent hedge plant, tolerating hard clipping and maritime exposure and forming a dense stock-proof shelter. * Spiny, shiny, dark green leaves, fragrant white flowers in May; quarter-inch red fruit, very attractive; parent of many cultivars.

Usually five people are required to harvest the tree's bark, using a small axe. * The tree forms a thick, rugged bark containing high levels of suberin. Only the bark is extracted, and a new layer of cork regrows, making it a renewable resource.

* Dirr calls this tree "genuinely beautiful" but says it's not for the Southeast states in U.S.; matures into a flat-topped tree with horizontal branches; good dark green foliage; good salt tolerance; native to coastal California.

* Requires an acid humus-rich soil, succeeding in part shade or in full sun in cooler areas. A very ornamental plant. Mountain-laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania .

* Seed - sow the seed thinly in early spring in a cold frame in light shade. * Butcher's broom has been known to enhance blood flow to the brain, legs, and hands. * A study published in 1999 suggested that Butcher's Broom may also improve symptoms of...

Roxburghii except in details of cone form. * Drooping yellow branchlets; needles to 12", light green, drooping; 8" cones; similar to P. Within its natural area, it grows under extremely variable rainfall regimes, from less than 300 mm to several thousands,...

Redbay is a perennial, with a non-herbaceous stem that is lignified. The leaves vary in color from bright green to dark green. It has evergreen leaves that are about 3 to 6 inches long with a lance shape.

* 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...

They can also be made into a refreshing lemonade-like beverage. When sugar is added, the fruit juice is similar to grape juice. Used for making jams. A nice addition to the landscape.

* The parent of many camellia cultivars; shiny leathery dark green leaves; flowers red, white, or pink, often produced in great quantity, in winter or spring; handsome gray trunk; wants a rich, acid soil and part shade or full sun; may grow as a shrub...

* Ptelea trifoliata is the second-northernmost New World representative of the Rue (Citrus) family after American prickly-ash (Zanthoxylum americanum). It has been mixed with other medicines in order to give added potency.

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

* In traditional herbalism columbine was considered sacred to Venus; carrying a posy of it was said arouse the affections of a loved one. * The plant is short lived but self sows freely producing a good quantity of seed each year.

Wood - coarse-grained, light, soft, brittle, not strong, very durable, resinous. Turpentine consists of an average of 20% of the oleo-resin and is separated by distillation. Taeda ), Shortleaf Pine ( P.

* It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with the leaves with a long petiole terminating in a rounded fan of 10-20 leaflets; each leaf is up to 1-1.5 m long, with the leaflets 50-80 cm long.

* 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 varient will grow to 8 feet tall. It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green; attractive white flowers in panicles atop the stems,...

* A short, tapering trunk supports picturesquely gnarled branches and limbs that over time will spread horizontally a great distance from the main trunk. It can reach a height of 20-40 ft.

* Ponderosa pine was employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes, who valued it especially for its antiseptic and vulnerary properties, using it to treat a range of skin problems, cuts, wounds, burns etc.

Scrub jays prefer burned sites for acorn caching. With age, it develops deep furrows, ridges, and a thickness of about 8 to 9% of bole or branch diameter . * Though seed predation may be high, it also provides a means of seed dispersal.

* Said to be heat tolerant and grows throughout the South. * Native to central and Southern Japan * Momi Fir is sometimes used as an ornamental tree, particularly in warm temperate regions with hot, humid summers such as the southeastern United States.

* Substances extracted from theseeds are used to inhibit the growth of malignant tumours. * The leaves are used in the treatment of cancer and hepatoma. * This very symmetrical plant supports a crown of shiny, dark green leaves on a thick shaggy trunk...

* The Bishop Pine ( Pinus muricata ) is a pine with a very restricted range: mostly California , USA , including some offshore islands, and a few locations in Baja California , Mexico , and always on or near the coast, from Trinidad Head in Humboldt County,...

The species name, Latin for naked-flowered, refers to the fact that the flowers often appear before its leaves are fully expanded. * Pink azalea is a 6-12 ft. Clusters of soft pink to white to lavender, slightly fragrant, funnel-shaped flowers (to 1.5”...

* The leaves are cooked and used as greens. The water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding . * Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic livestock and native herbivores.

* Its typical habitat is moist shaded woodland, growing in accumulated humus. The flowers are bright yellow 3.5-5 cm across, starting out bowl-shaped, then flattening out with age.