Shade Tree Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Cincinnati

* Umbellularia californica is a large tree native to coastal forests of California and slightly extended into Oregon .

* The cooked seed was used as a staple food by several native North American Indian tribes * Oaks may be the single most important genus used by wildlife for food and cover in California forests and rangelands.

A variety of mammals and birds eat them, including the Acorn Woodpecker, Western Scrub Jay, Yellow-billed Magpie, and California ground squirrel. * The Spaniards, because the tree looked like the white oaks in Europe, called the tree "roble".

* Apricot kernels are a component in traditional Chinese medicine. * It is a small tree, 8–12 m tall, with a trunk up to 40 cm diameter and a dense, spreading canopy. * The fruit is a drupe similar to a small peach , 1.5–2.5 cm diameter, from yellow...

The fruit will often begin its bletting process whilst still on the tree and we have eaten delicious fruits straight from the tree in mid-September. This involves storing the fruit in a cool dry place until it is almost but not quite going rotten.

* A very poular tree for bonsai due to its dwarf size and small fruit.

It is not a true fruit but a swollen receptacle. * The Japanese Raisin Tree ( Hovenia dulcis ) is a hardy tree that occurs from Japan , over Eastern China and Korea to the Himalayas (up to altitudes of 2,000 m), growing preferably in a sunny position...

It is hardy in USDA Zone 4 . Gardeners should beware that seedlings of "Eastern Prince" are sometimes sold under the same name but are typically single-sex plants. * The following report is for S.

* The chestnuts are in the beech family along with beech and oak, and are not closely related to the horse-chestnut, which is in the family Sapindaceae. * The American Chestnut is a prolific bearer of nuts , usually with three nuts enclosed in each spiny...

Isolated groves are found as far north as the San Francisco Bay Area in Mt. Diablo State Park and Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve. The leaves are needle-like, in bundles of three, glaucous gray-green, 15–30 cm (5.9–11.8 in) long and stout, 2...

Other common names are pignut, sweet pignut, coast pignut hickory, smoothbark hickory, swamp hickory, and broom hickory. * Wood - hard, strong, tough, very flexible. A very good fuel, burning well and giving off a lot of heat.

* A shrub at Kew was 2 metres tall and 2 metres wide inJuly 1996 with a reasonable crop of immature fruit. The branchlets are a purplish-brown colour, and are slender and sparsely villous.

Sweet, with a very fine flavour, it has the largest seeds of the hickories, up to 5cm long. * Shellbark hickory ( Carya laciniosa ) in the Juglandaceae or Walnut family is also called shagbark hickory , bigleaf shagbark hickory , kingnut , big , bottom...

They can also be ground into a powder and used as a thickener and flavouring in soups etc. They are rich in oil and have a soft texture with a hint of resin in the flavour. * Often flat-topped and asymmetrical; 6" bright green stiff needles; cones about...

A 10-year-old sapling will stand about 4 m (13 ft) tall. A pleasant sweet flavour, though rather small and fiddly. Steaming makes the wood even easier to machine. * The seed is eaten raw or cooked.

The fruit will often begin its bletting process whilst still on the tree and we have eaten delicious fruits straight from the tree in mid-September. This involves storing the fruit in a cool dry place until it is almost but not quite going rotten.

* Prosopis chilensis , carob , is a species of South American legume family which dwells mainly central Chile, south of Peru , Andean- Chaco ecotone in Argentina . It lies between 500-1850 m It is a medium low tree, no more than 3-12 m in height and 6...

Prefers moist, acidic, organically rich soils in part shade. In the wild, Carolina silverbell typically does not exceed 35' in height (though specimens have been found in the 80-100' range), and is frequently shrubby in habit.

Extremely hardy --- down to 20º below zero! The English Carpathian Walnut tree is a truly beautiful lawn tree with attractive, lacy foliage. English Carpathian Walnut tree is a real investment for your property in beauty, value, and eating pleasure.

The seed can be dried and ground into a powder which is added to cereals and used in making bread, pies etc. * Corylus cornuta ( Beaked Hazel ) is a deciduous shrubby hazel found in most of North America , from southern Canada south to Georgia and California...

A tea made from the berries has a spicy gin-like flavour. The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard seeds in their droppings.

Steaming makes the wood even easier to machine. It has an excellent finish and is resistant to compression and splitting. * The wood of the European beech is used in the manufacture of numerous objects and implements.

Sweet, with a very fine flavour, it has the largest seeds of the hickories, up to 5cm long. * Shellbark hickory ( Carya laciniosa ) in the Juglandaceae or Walnut family is also called shagbark hickory , bigleaf shagbark hickory , kingnut , big , bottom...

* The fruit has a sweet flavor. * It is a good bird plant with 3/8" purple-black fruit that they love to eat. * The bark can be made into a herbal medicine for expectant mothers. * The fruit, which are pomes, are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked.

* Umbellularia californica is a large tree native to coastal forests of California and slightly extended into Oregon .

* Halesia tetraptera, commonly known as the common silverbell is a species in the family Styracaceae, native to the southeastern United States. It is cultivated as an ornamental tree.

* The Gray Pine ( Pinus sabineana ) is a pine endemic to California in the United States ; historically and internationally, the common name has been more frequently termed Digger Pine .