Shade Tolerant Plant Specimen Tree For Sale In San Antonio

They can grow at severe angles, and Native Americans used to bend saplings over so that they would grow at extreme angles, to serve as trail markers. Their lower limbs often sweep down towards the ground before curving up again.

* When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular. * A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * Native to the southern and eastern parts of the United States , found from Illinois to Virginia in the north and from Texas...

* Unique for its weeping habit.

* A tropical tree with compound leaves and clustered yellow-green flowers. * A species of Albizia , native to tropical southern Asia , and widely cultivated and naturalised in other tropical and subtropical regions.

This hybrid can be very difficult to distinguish from its American parent. The leaves are thick and stiff-textured, broad, palmately lobed, superficially maple-like, the leaf blade 10–20 cm long and 12–25 cm broad, with a petiole 3–10 cm long.

American Indians ate them with parched corn. The grayish bark is covered with corky warts and ridges. It is a moderately long-lived hardwood with a light-colored wood, yellowish gray to light brown with yellow streaks.

* Silky camellia is an under-story woodland species with rich brown colored bark * It grows best in partial shade in well draining soils. * 'Silky Camellia' has been cultivated in the US since 1752.

It likes deep rich soil and part shade, but is very adaptable. Best reserved for specimen use but also quite good in groupings of threes or fives. * "One of the most graceful and beautiful spruces", says Dirr, who says it might be a good evergreen street...

* The flowers are small, yellow, with five sepals and petals. * Species of maple in the snakebark maple group. * It is a small deciduous tree growing to 10–15 m tall with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter.

It is used as a forestry tree in North America and China. * Paulownia elongata is a species of plant in the Paulowniaceae family. * Some proponents claim that P. Elongata plantations can reach a harvestable size in five to seven years.

* Cupressus funebris is a medium-sized coniferous tree growing to 20-35 m tall, with a trunk up to 2 m diameter. It is used as a houseplant and conservatory tree in colder climates.

Hardy to Zone 8 (cold hardiness limit between -12.1°C and -6.7°C) (Bannister and Neuner 2001). It grows in a temperate climate with dry winters and wet summers. * China: predominantly at 600-3000 m elevation on the high plateaus of Yunnan (Li 1997),...

It is a moderately long-lived hardwood with a light-colored wood, yellowish gray to light brown with yellow streaks. It is also known as the nettletree, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry.

In the wild it is endangered , but it is widely cultivated elsewhere. * The Royal Poinciana is endemic to Madagascar , where it is found in the Madagascar dry deciduous forests . In addition to its ornamental value, it is also a useful shade tree in tropical...

* The trees are evergreen, 12 to 15 m tall. * Maple makes a handsome street tree in SE China. * Bark smooth to wrinkled.

* Magnificent leaf shape, finely cut in many directions. * The new leaves are light green, especially the outer ends of the lobes. * Fast growing, rounded deciduous broadleaf tree.

Newly grown leaves and samaras take on a reddish hue. The tree features slender leaves, unlike the multilobed leaves found on most maple species. * This is an amazing endangered maple from South China and Vietnam.

* It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in September. * Scarlet flowers; native to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular.

* This small tree or shrub is well adapted to harsh conditions. * Will grow on alkaline soils while withstanding climatic extremes; hot, cold and dry! * It has lovely red fall color.

Carpinifolia, but a graceful tree nonetheless; slow-growing; bark gray brown, in narrow strips; yields a very hard wood; sometimes used as a street and ornamental tree; hoplike fruit clusters; native to eastern U.S. * Wood - close-grained, very hard,...

* The leaves appear shortly after the first flowers emerge. * The deep pink flowers are produced on year-old or older growth, including the trunk in late spring ( cauliflory ). These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow...

* Branches usually drooping, smaller in all its parts, of more columnar habit. * 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...

* Cupressus lusitanica , ( Cedro Blanco ; Teotlate , distinctive names used in Mexico); Cedro Blanco means White Cedar and is also known as Mexican White Cedar , is a species of cypress native to Mexico and Central America ( Guatemala , El Salvador and...

Fusiformis), commonly known as texas live oak, escarpment live oak, plateau live oak, or plateau oak, is an evergreen or nearly evergreen tree. Unlike Coastal live oak, acorns are spindle-shaped (fusiform), narrowed at the base.

* In East Africa it is also known as Muarubaini ( Swahili ), which means the tree of the 40 , as it is said to treat 40 different diseases. * Native to India , Myanmar , Bangladesh , Sri Lanka , Malaysia and Pakistan , growing in tropical and semi-tropical...

Carpinifolia, but a graceful tree nonetheless; slow-growing; bark gray brown, in narrow strips; yields a very hard wood; sometimes used as a street and ornamental tree; hoplike fruit clusters; native to eastern U.S. * Wood - close-grained, very hard,...

* In recent years, this species has been extensively used in Bonsai. * 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...