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Chinese Astilbe Astilbe chinensis
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* The flowers are purple, borne in summer. * Astilbe chinensis is a herbaceous plant with alternate, pinnately compound leaves, on thin stems.
  • Quantity: 0.12 lb
  • Genus: Astilbe
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Common Name: Chinese Astilbe
  • Botanical Name: Astilbe chinensis
  • Crop Year: 2013
United States
California
Faber\'s Maple ACER fabri
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

Well worth growing in zone 8 gardens. The tree features slender leaves, unlike the multilobed leaves found on most maple species. The new growth and samaras are bright red. * This is an amazing endangered maple from South China and Vietnam.
  • Common Name: Faber's Maple
  • Botanical Name: ACER fabri
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Quantity: 1.89 lb
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Collection Locale: China
United States
California
Aaron\'s Beard, Rose-of-Sharonwort, Creeping St. Johnswort, Goldflower Hypericum calycinum
Price : CALL

The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens . For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April. The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,401,235
  • Genus: Hypericum
  • Height: 1-2 feet
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Common Name: Aaron's Beard, Rose-of-Sharonwort, Creeping St. Johnswort, Goldflower
  • Botanical Name: Hypericum calycinum
United States
California
Chinese Ginseng Panax ginseng
Price : CALL

* It has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to promote health, general body vigour and also to prolong life. * Ginseng has a history of herbal use going back over 5,000 years.
  • Botanical Name: Panax ginseng
  • Genus: Panax
  • Height: 2-3 feet
  • Family: Araliaceae
United States
California
Ivy-leaved Maple, Vine-leaved Maple ACER cissifolium
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Each leaf has 3 leaflets. * Red and Orange fall foliage. * Native to Japan.
  • Common Name: Ivy-leaved Maple, Vine-leaved Maple
  • Collection Locale: Poland
  • Quantity: 0.22 lb
  • Family: Aceraceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 21,792
  • Species: cissifolium
United States
California
American Beautyberry Callicarpa americana
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

It is juicy, sweet, fleshy, slightly aromatic. * The fruit is edible raw. * American beautyberries produce large clusters of purple berries, which birds and deer eat, thus distributing the seeds.
  • Common Name: American Beautyberry
  • Height: 6-8 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 343,939
  • Genus: Callicarpa
  • Species: americana
  • Botanical Name: Callicarpa americana
United States
California
Japanese Kerria, Japanese Rose Kerria japonica
Price : CALL

* 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...
  • Common Name: Japanese Kerria, Japanese Rose
  • Genus: Kerria
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Botanical Name: Kerria japonica
United States
California
Meigetsu Full-Moon Maple ACER japonicum   Meigetsu
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Fall colors are blends of gold and red. * Bight green with some texture.
  • Common Name: Meigetsu Full-Moon Maple
  • Genus: ACER
  • Lot#: 060406
  • Quantity: 3.31 lb
  • Purity: 99%
  • Botanical Name: ACER japonicum Meigetsu dry seed
United States
California
Roundleaved Dogwood, Roundleaf Dogwood Cornus rugosa
Price : CALL

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...
  • Common Name: Roundleaved Dogwood, Roundleaf Dogwood
  • Family: Cornaceae
  • Height: 6-10 feet
  • Genus: Cornus
United States
California
Siberian Elm, Chinese Elm, Asiatic Elm, Dwarf Elm Ulmus pumila
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Of open, wide-spreading habit, with several main branches ramifying into small branchlets; grows quickly, but wood may be brittle and susceptible to ice and snow damage; resistant to Dutch elm disease, and so used by breeders; drought tolerant, used...
  • Purity: 97%
  • Height: 30-60 feet
  • Collection Locale: South Dakota
  • Quantity: 5.64 lb
  • Botanical Name: Ulmus pumila
  • Seeds Per Pound: 82,700
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California
Red Buckeye, Firecracker Plant Aesculus pavia    Northern
Price : CALL

* When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular. * Fine plant for naturalizing in moist soils and where there is some shade. * Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois...
  • Family: Hippocastanaceae
  • Location: Northern
  • Genus: Aesculus
  • Species: pavia
  • Botanical Name: Aesculus pavia Northern
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California
Aaron\'s Beard, Rose-of-Sharonwort, Creeping St. Johnswort, Goldflower Hypericum calycinum
Price : CALL

The solitary flowers are 3–5 cm in diameter, a rich yellow, with five petals and numerous yellow stamens . For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April. The green, ovate leaves grow in opposite pairs.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Germination: 91%
  • Species: calycinum
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Collection Locale: CA
United States
California
Sowbread, Neapolitan Cyclamen  Cyclamen hederifolium
Prices start at : 15.95 USD / 1 packet

* Prefers a cool habitat and a well-drained humus rich soil. Thrives in the light shade of trees. Dormancy is shorter in cooler climates. * Easily grown in a stony leafy soil in sun or shade.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Botanical Name: Cyclamen hederifolium
  • Crop Year: 2012
  • Family: Primulaceae
  • Collection Locale: Germany
  • Common Name: Sowbread, Neapolitan Cyclamen
United States
California
Pacific Yew Taxus brevifolia
Price : CALL

Taxol has shown exciting potential as an anti-cancer drug, particularly in the treatment of ovarian cancers. * Modern research has shown that it contains the substance 'taxol' in its shoots and bark.
  • Height: 30-45 feet
  • Family: Taxaceae
  • Botanical Name: Taxus brevifolia
  • Genus: Taxus
United States
California
Chinese Plum Yew, Chinese Cowtail Pine, San Jian Shan Cephalotaxus fortunei
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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.
  • Germination: 77%
  • Quantity: 2.57 lb
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Common Name: Chinese Plum Yew, Chinese Cowtail Pine, San Jian Shan
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,044
  • Species: fortunei
United States
California
Bearded Maple ACER barbinerve
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

Leaves are non-compound, with 5 shallow lobes, the blade up to 10 cm long, with teeth along the edges. In habit it perhaps most resembles the native hazelnut (Corylus avellana). The tips of the stems take on a rosy glow in winter, while in early spring...
  • Family: Sapindaceae
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Height: 15-20 feet
  • Common Name: Bearded Maple
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Genus: ACER
United States
California
Mountain Laurel, Spoonwood Kalmia latifolia
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Requires an acid humus-rich soil, succeeding in part shade or in full sun in cooler areas. * A lovely evergreen plant for cool, acid, woodsy conditions such as rhododendrons like; 1" flowers in rounded clusters at branch tips, each flower hexagonal,...
  • Genus: Kalmia
  • Germination: 30%
  • Collection Locale: Pennsylvania
  • Botanical Name: Kalmia latifolia
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 880
United States
California
Roseshell Azalea, Early Azalea Rhododendron prinophyllum
Price : CALL

* This deciduous azalea (commonly called early azalea or roseshell azalea) is a Missouri native shrub which typically occurs on wooded, north-facing slopes and wooded ravines and along streams in the far southeastern part of the State.
  • Family: Ericaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Botanical Name: Rhododendron prinophyllum
  • Species: prinophyllum
United States
California
Rose Of Sharon, Rose Of Althea Hibiscus syriacus
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

Shoots make interesting indoor vase cuttings, as they stay green for a long time. However, numerous buds are produced on the shrub's new growth, which provides prolific flowering over a long summer blooming period.
  • Germination: 98%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Malvaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 25,424
  • Purity: 99%
  • Height: 6-12 feet
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California
Winged Elm Ulmus alata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Grow in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. As its common name implies, the tree is most easily recognized by the very broad, thin pair of corky wings that form along the branchlets after a couple of years.
  • Seeds Type: w
  • Germination: 67%
  • Botanical Name: Ulmus alata
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Common Name: Winged Elm
  • Quantity: 0.54 lb
United States
California
Winged Elm Ulmus alata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Grow in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun. As its common name implies, the tree is most easily recognized by the very broad, thin pair of corky wings that form along the branchlets after a couple of years.
  • Crop Year: 2010
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Quantity: 0.54 lb
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 136,200
  • Common Name: Winged Elm
United States
California
Ponticum Rhododendron, Pontic Rhododendron, Common Rhododendron Rhododendron ponticum
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

The flowers are 3.5-5 cm diameter, violet-purple, often with small greenish-yellow spots or streaks. & Reut.) Hand.-Mazz. The leaves are evergreen , 6-18 cm long and 2-5 cm broad. Spain, Portugal.
  • Quantity: 0.22 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 4,000,000
  • Crop Year: 2001
  • Species: ponticum
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Collection Locale: France
United States
California
Silky Camellia, Silky Stewartia, Virginia Stewartia Stewartia malacodendron
Prices start at : 20.95 USD / 1 packet

* 'Silky Camellia' has been cultivated in the US since 1752. * Silky camellia is a large, open-branched shrub growing up to 10 feet tall. * Silky camellia is an under-story woodland species with rich brown colored bark * It grows best in partial shade...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Common Name: Silky Camellia, Silky Stewartia, Virginia Stewartia
  • Family: Theaceae
  • Purity: 98%
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Germination Test Type: cut
United States
California
Western Azalea Rhododendron occidentale
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Fragrant white or slightly pink flowers with a yellow blotch, to 2 1/2"; 4" deciduous leaves, yellow and scarlet in fall; native to the Pacific Coast, and said to fare poorly on the East Coast.
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Lot#: 9201
  • Quantity: 0.05 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 2,000,000
  • Crop Year: 1992
  • Purity: 97%
United States
California
Alpine Honeysuckle, Alps Honeysuckle Lonicera alpigena
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Schmidt, which is native to Sakhalin , Kurile Islands , Hokkaido and Honshu , is sometimes considered as a geographically disjunct subspecies of Alpine Honeysuckle, L. It is a deciduous shrub up to 2 m high, in late summer bearing conspicuous brilliant...
  • Lot#: 9801
  • Germination: 99%
  • Botanical Name: Lonicera alpigena
  • Genus: Lonicera
  • Collection Locale: Poland
  • Quantity: 0.02 lb
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California
Cork Oak Quercus suber
Price : CALL

* The tree forms a thick, rugged bark containing high levels of suberin. The European cork industry produces 300,000 tonnes of cork a year, with a value of €1.5 billion and employing 30,000 people.
  • Botanical Name: Quercus suber
  • Common Name: Cork Oak
  • Genus: Quercus
  • Height: 40-60 feet
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California
Corkwood Leitneria floridana
Price : CALL

* Wood - very light, soft, close grained. 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.
  • Family: Leitneriaceae
  • Genus: Leitneria
  • Species: floridana
  • Common Name: Corkwood
United States
California