Shade Tolerant Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Cedar Rapids

* It is noted for its large palmate leaves and erect, woody stems covered in stinging spines. * In vitro studies showed that extracts of Devil's Club inhibit tuberculosis microbes.

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.

A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB. * The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. * Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock.

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.

It has been mixed with other medicines in order to give added potency. It makes part of the undergrowth of the Mississippi river valley, and is found most frequently on rocky slopes.

* Cephalotaxus fortunei, commonly called the Chinese Plum Yew, simply Plum Yew, Chinese Cowtail Pine or in Chinese as San Jian Shan (Chinese: ???; pinyin: s?nji?nsh?n), is a coniferous shrub or small tree in the plum yew family.

It has been mixed with other medicines in order to give added potency. It makes part of the undergrowth of the Mississippi river valley, and is found most frequently on rocky slopes.

The leaves are gathered when the plant is in full bloom and are dried in the shade. Young twigs are noticeably yellow and stand out in winter. * Easily grown in average, dry to medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade.

* Upright stems topped by 1/2-1" flowers in a branched flower head, white, green, or yellowish; grows in wet, grassy subalpine meadows and open woods; flowers in June or July; attractive pleated leaves, to 1' long, 6" wide; native from northern Europe...

* Butcher's broom has been known to enhance blood flow to the brain, legs, and hands. Grow the seedlings on in the pot in light shade in the greenhouse for their first growing season, giving occasional liquid feeds to ensure they do not suffer nutrient...

* The welcome wildflower of early spring; sap and root are red, hence the common name. 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.

Occasional Trillium ovatum plants have petals that are maroon rather than the typical white. * It occurs in parts of the western United States and western Canada, usually in rich forest.

* 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. * It is one of the alleged "50 fundamental herbs" used in traditional Chinese...

* It is a low, creeping, woody shrub to about 1 m tall and 1–2 m wide but often smaller. Very vigorous, it can swamp out small plants. For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April.

* Stored seed should be sown as early in the year as possible and given cold stratification - it might not germinate until spring of the following year.

* Cassia fistula, known as the golden shower tree and by other names, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. * In Ayurvedic medicine, the golden shower tree is known as aragvadha, meaning "disease killer".

* A fast-growing tree with an extensive root system, it has been planted on land that is subject to landslips or erosion in order to stabilize the soil. The tree is fairly free from fungal diseases and has few insect enemies.

* Stored seed should be sown as early in the year as possible and given cold stratification - it might not germinate until spring of the following year.

This ancient deciduous tree is easily recognized by its unique fan-shaped leaves that turn a deep yellow in the fall and pale grey bark. The baked seed makes very pleasant eating, it has a taste rather like a cross between potatoes and sweet chestnuts.

* Rhapis excelsa also known as Broadleaf Lady Palm is a species of fan palm (Arecaceae subfamily Coryphoideae, tribe Corypheae) in the genus Rhapis, probably native to southern China and Taiwan.

* The plant produces cup-shaped, lavender-coloured or white flowers. * It is boiled in olive oil to make black dyes and hair dressing. * Today, the plant is usually used in potpourris.

* All parts of the plant contain nicotine, this has been extracted and used as an insecticide. It is found only in cultivation, where it is the most commonly grown of all plants in the Nicotiana genus, and its leaves are commercially grown in many countries...

* Compound leaves with leaflets in threes grow on fleshy green to pink stems up to 3 feet (0.9 m). * The plant most of us think of as Bleeding Heart; extremely popular, and for good reason; each arching spike, often held horizontally, is lined with an...

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.

The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) * The root is used in the treatment of rheumatism and other bone diseases. It is in flower from Jun to July. * Alangium platanifolium is a deciduous Shrub growing to 3 m (9ft) by 2 m (6ft).

* Trillium grandiflorum, commonly known as great white trillium or wood lily, is a simple, graceful perennial that is one of the most familiar and beloved of the spring woodland wildflowers in eastern North America.

The flowers are small, white, borne in dense terminal compound umbels in late autumn or early winter, followed by small black fruit. * It is an evergreen shrub growing to 3–6 m (9.8–20 ft) tall, with stout, sparsely branched stems.