Squirrel Food Producing Plant Seeds For Sale In Ontario

Specific epithet comes from Latin and means to place in an overlapping order, as with tile or shingles. Reaches its largest size in southern Illinois and Indiana. * Wood was once used by early settlers in the midwest for shingles, hence the common name.

The seed can be dried and ground into a powder which is added to cereals and used in making bread, pies etc. * The seed can be eaten raw or cooked. It grows in dry woodlands and forest edges and can reach 4 – 8 m tall with stems 10 – 25 cm thick with...

* The pin oak is in the red oak subgenus: pointed lobes.The sinuses are very deeply cut and u-shaped.The amount of sinus area is approximately equivalent to the amount of actual leaf area.The upper branches point upwards, the middle branches are perpendicular...

* The very bold, decorative leaves and the attractive catkins produced in spring make it an excellent ornamental tree for planting in parks and large gardens. * Grown mostly as a novelty due to the heart shaped fruit.

* The scientific name honors Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg (1753–1815), a Lutheran pastor and amateur botanist in Pennsylvania . * Quercus muehlenbergii, (its scientific name often misspelt muhlenbergii) is native to eastern and central North America,...

Widely used in landscapes. * Normally not a very tall tree, typically 65–85 feet (19.5-25.5 m) tall at maturity, it nonetheless becomes quite massive and its lower branches are apt to reach far out laterally parallel to the ground.

* The wood is hard, tough, elastic. * The seed is eaten raw or cooked. It has a sweet flavour and is highly esteemed by the Chinese. * Carya cathayensis is a deciduous Tree growing to 18 m (59ft 1in) at a slow rate.

The leaves are mixed with tea to give it a pleasant aroma. * It has a long history of cultivation in Japan for practical rather than decorative reasons. * At the beginning of the Edo period, cultivars of Camellia sasanqua began appearing; the first record...

Indeed they sprang forward at such a rate as presently to dwarf their pure breed relatives." * They are commonly used in California as a rootstock for English Walnut, inspiring more vigor in the trees.

* Record Shumard Oaks have been measured at up to 42 meters (138 ft) tall, with crowns up to 27.5 meters (90 ft) in width. * The Shumard Oak , Quercus shumardii (also known as Spotted Oak, Schneck Oak, Shumard Red Oak, and Swamp Red Oak), is one of the...

* Butternut grows quickly, but is rather short-lived for a tree, rarely living longer than 75 years. * Compound leaves, dark green; 2" edible fruit, oily; furrowed dark gray bark; often of rather open habit, with a number of trunks and few internal branches;...

* A shrub or small tree, thick-shelled round nuts, 3/4"; native to south central U.S. and northern Mexico. The pinnately compound leaves bear 7—25 untoothed to finely-toothed leaflets, each 1/4—1/2 in wide.

Stored seed should be cold stratified for 3 - 4 months and sown as early as possible in the year. Prick out the seedlings of cold-frame sown seeds into individual pots as soon as they are large enough to handle and grow the plants on for their first winter...

* A shrub or small tree, thick-shelled round nuts, 3/4"; native to south central U.S. and northern Mexico. The pinnately compound leaves bear 7—25 untoothed to finely-toothed leaflets, each 1/4—1/2 in wide.

Indeed they sprang forward at such a rate as presently to dwarf their pure breed relatives." * They are commonly used in California as a rootstock for English Walnut, inspiring more vigor in the trees.

* The wood is similar to, and usually marketed mixed with, other white oaks. However, the swamp chestnut oak is a larger tree which differs in preferred habitat, and the bark does not have the distinctive deep, rugged ridging of the chestnut oak, being...

* The wood is hard, tough, elastic. * The seed is eaten raw or cooked. It has a sweet flavour and is highly esteemed by the Chinese. * Carya cathayensis is a deciduous Tree growing to 18 m (59ft 1in) at a slow rate.

It is often used for roadside erosion control, as well as beautification; it tends, however, to eliminate all other desirable spring and early-summer species of native vegetation in the area where it is planted.

* An excrescence produced on the leaf by an insect Melaphis chinensis or M. It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool, urorrhoea and bloody sputum.

* Most planting in North America was carried out for wildlife food provision, as the species tends to bear heavier crops of acorns than other native American oak species. * The acorns are eaten by jays, pigeons, and squirrels .

* It is a medium-sized tree growing to 20-30 m tall (exceptionally to 39 m), with a trunk up to 1-1.5 m diameter (exceptionally 2 m). * The tree starts acorn production around 15 years of age, earlier than many oak species.

It attains a tallow-like consistency on standing and is used to make candles. * An oil is extracted from the seeds.

It is often used for roadside erosion control, as well as beautification; it tends, however, to eliminate all other desirable spring and early-summer species of native vegetation in the area where it is planted.

* Flax was extensively cultivated in ancient Ethiopia and ancient Egypt . * Linseed has a long history of medicinal use, its main effects being as a laxative and expectorant that soothes irritated tissues, controls coughing and relieves pain.

An infusion is used internally in the treatment of stomach complaints, diarrhoea and dysentery, anaemia, the spitting up of blood and to treat vomiting. * Easily grown in a good well-drained loamy soil in sun or semi-shade.

The perennial's hairy, clasping leaves are arranged densely on its stout stems. * New England American-aster is large and showy, growing to 6 or more ft. It is native to almost every area in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, but excluding the...

The leaves are gray-green and pale and fuzzy underneath, and several centimeters long. * It is grown elsewhere as an ornamental . It is native to the low-elevation woodlands of the Himalayas in China , India , and surrounding nations and it is naturalized...