Shade Tolerant Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Des Moines

; Japanese : ??? The very fragrant flowers are used by the Chinese to impart a pleasant aroma to tea, wine and sweet dishes such as lotus seed soup, pastries and steamed pears. * Osmanthus fragrans ( Sweet Osmanthus ; Chinese : ??

Arizonica: Has thickened, 'corky' bark that is white to grey and deeply furrowed, and has very glaucous foliage. * The Corkbark Fir Abies lasiocarpa var. * It differs from the species in having thicker, corky bark and more strongly glaucous foliage.

* The large leaves, up to 1 foot long, are interesting. * Does well along woods edges as a background plant in perennial gardens. * Flowering period during the summer is long, attrracting many pollinators.

* Tian Nan Xing has been used in Chinese herbal medicine for thousands of years and is valued especially for its beneficial affect upon the chest. * The root is harvested when the plant is dormant in the autumn or winter and is dried for later use.

Nice for lawns, parks and golf courses or commercial grounds. * Gutta-percha, known as Du Zhong in China, is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs.

The leaves are in pairs or whorls of three, thick and leathery, dark green, narrow lanceolate, 5–21 cm (2.0–8.3 in) long and 1–3.5 cm (0.39–1.4 in) broad, and with an entire margin.

They can be found at an altitude of 0–1,850 metres (0–6,070 ft). * These shrubs are usually found in wooded and bushy areas, on sunny, warm and dry slopes and around forest edges.

Fortunei is a shrub or small tree growing to as high as 20 m with a diameter at breast height of about 20 cm. They are usually multi-stemmed with an open and loosely rounded crown.

The male cones are yellow, 2–3 mm long, and fall soon after shedding their pollen in March–April. It is dioecious , with male and female cones on separate plants, which are wind pollinated.

* 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 red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds.

They also get the added bonus of growing in a medium made richer by the ant nest debris. * A red dye is obtained from the sap of the root. * Bloodroot ( Sanguinaria canadensis ) is a perennial , herbaceous flowering plant native to eastern North America...

The tree is fairly free from fungal diseases and has few insect enemies. * It prefers moist soil and full sun. It is highly valued for posts and fencing rails, and is also used for interior finishes, cabinet work etc.

* 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 red seed pods are brilliant, opening to revel shiny black seeds.

Usually stemless, the leaves arising from an underground stock. Plant forms a trunk when grown in standing water. * There are more than 2,500 plants in the palm family worldwide, but only about a dozen are native to the United States.

* In traditional herbalism columbine was considered sacred to Venus; carrying a posy of it was said arouse the affections of a loved one. * The blue flowers and on occasion white flowers are bonnet shaped.

The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther north than the alternateleaf dogwood, but does not extend past 50°N (Soper and Heimburger...

* In Ayurvedic medicine, the golden shower tree is known as aragvadha, meaning "disease killer". It is also the state flower of Kerala in India and of immense importance amongst the Malayali population * It is a popular ornamental plant and is also used...

The plant contains flavonoids (notably rutin) that reduce capillary fragility, which might explain the plants reputation as an eye strengthener. * A hardy perennial with gray or blue-gray rather frilly leaves, extremely fragrant (although many dislike...

* A beautiful very vigorous variety well know for its extreme cold hardiness.

When eating the fruit you should spit out the large seed found in the fruit's centre. The Yew is a slow grower featuring bright green foliage followed by deeper green leaf tones. Cuspidata, Japanese Yew; parent of many cultivars; native to Europe, north...

* 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.

It is abundant further south on the southern coast and in the Gulf states, reaching its greatest size on the bottomlands of southern Arkansas and eastern Texas. * Yellow-green spiny leaves; red fruit almost 1/2" wide, lasting into winter; of pyramidal...

* Arctostaphylos uva-ursi is a small procumbent woody groundcover shrub 5–30 cm high. It is valuable for checking soil erosion on watersheds. A carpeting plant, growing fairly fast and carpeting as it spreads.

* 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 root bark contains saponins, acanthosides, cardiac glycosides and polysaccharides. It is used in Korea in the treatment of lumbago, neuralgia, arthritis and oedema. It is adaptogenic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and diuretic.

* One of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America * A decidious Tree growing to 30 m. * Brilliant deep scarlet foliage in autumn * Over most of its range, red maple is adaptable to a very wide range of site conditions.

* Arctostaphylos uva-ursi is a small procumbent woody groundcover shrub 5–30 cm high. It is valuable for checking soil erosion on watersheds. A carpeting plant, growing fairly fast and carpeting as it spreads.