Street Tree Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In San Francisco

* Purple or lavender terminal flowers. * Common names include Orchid tree and Mountain-ebony. * Native to India and China. * A decidious Tree growing to 12m.

Mediterranean and Asia Minor. * This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers. * Sun- and drought-tolerant.

* Horticulturally, it is a popular choice for street trees in urban settings because it is very drought tolerant and can survive harsh environments. * In the low-elevation deserts of Arizona, it is the only tree whose leaves turn scarlet in fall.

* Native to the U.S. Southwest, where it is sometimes used as a street or shade tree; 3-5 leaflets per leaf; dark gray scaly ridged bark; velvety young shoots, downy leaves. * A fairly wind resistant tree, it can be grown as part of a shelterbelt planting.

The species is often smaller, stunted and twisted in coastal exposures. * The mature trees grow to a height of 15-25 m, rarely up to 34 m, with a trunk diameter of up to 1.2 m. Muricata has been used in plantations with resultant growth rates higher than...

* The Callery Pear ( Pyrus calleryana ) is a species of pear native to China . They have a smell that some people find distasteful. The flowers are produced in early spring before the leaves expand fully, and are white, with five petals, and about 2 to...

* As a deciduous tree, it is completely bare of leaves and flowers during the winter months, especially when growing outside of its native South America habitat. They measure 10 to 15 centimetres (4 to 6 in) in diameter and their shape is superficially...

* Native to the U.S. Southwest, where it is sometimes used as a street or shade tree; 3-5 leaflets per leaf; dark gray scaly ridged bark; velvety young shoots, downy leaves. * A fairly wind resistant tree, it can be grown as part of a shelterbelt planting.

It is used as a houseplant and conservatory tree in colder climates. * Cupressus funebris is cultivated as an ornamental tree, due to its graciously weeping form and texture, and planted in gardens and public parks in other warm temperate regions, such...

* Lagerstroemia indica ( Crape myrtle, Crepe myrtle ) is a species in the genus Lagerstroemia in the family Lythraceae . * A decoction of the flowers is used in the treatment of colds.

It is found only in China . It is much more drought tolerant than most spruce species. * This species of spruce should be grown in areas where drought may be a concern. * Picea crassifolia is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family.

Their lower limbs often sweep down towards the ground before curving up again. They drop their leaves, and grow new ones, within a few weeks in spring. They can grow at severe angles, and Native Americans used to bend saplings over so that they would...

The species is often smaller, stunted and twisted in coastal exposures. * The mature trees grow to a height of 15-25 m, rarely up to 34 m, with a trunk diameter of up to 1.2 m. Muricata has been used in plantations with resultant growth rates higher than...

Obovate-elliptic to elliptic leaves (to 3 1/2" long) are glossy dark green. Fall color is a respectable yellow. * The plant species is endemic to Southeast China in forest thicket habitats at 500–800 metres (1,600–2,600 ft) of elevation.

* Native to India , Myanmar , Bangladesh , Sri Lanka , Malaysia and Pakistan , growing in tropical and semi-tropical regions. * 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...

Over much of its range, giant chinkapin shows several growth forms; it grows in a wide variety of habitats but is rarely a dominant component of any stand. Ecologically and taxonomically, it remains a poorly understood species.

* Can tolerate dry and warm sites, can grow on various types of soil. * The cones are cylindrical, 9-18 cm long, greenish-pink to purple before maturity. * Growing up to 25-30m high and up to 1m in diameter.

* Bur Oak typically grows in the open, away from forest canopy. * It commonly lives to be 200 to 300 years old, and may live up to 400 years. Quercus , native to North America in the eastern and midwestern United States and south-central Canada .

* Shiny green leaves, yellow or yellow green in fall; thorny, especially when young; nice vertically fissured brown bark; appealing huge round fruit, to 6", light green, filled with a sticky white sap and a sloppy mess once they fall, so choose male plants...

Glauca is the commonly cultivated variety of this tree for areas outside of the Pacific Northwest, and is clearly a better selection for midwestern climates than the species because of its better cold tolerance (species is hardy to USDA Zone 6, but var.

* It is fast growing and usually has nice red fall colors, much more reliably so than the more popular Pin Oak. * Its previous scientific name was Quercus nuttallii , but it is now known as Quercus texana ; this has created much confusion with Texas Red...

Watson2 INTRODUCTION This slow growing, open-crown, round, small tree eventually reaches to 12 to 15 feet tall (occasionally 20) and 10 to 12 feet wide . Gilman and Dennis G. * Leaves emerge purple and fade to dark green in the summer.

* Creamy white flowers as much as a foot wide, wonderfully fragrant, in May, June or July. * It is used in the treatment of malaria and rheumatism. * This is perhaps the most strongly scented flower in the world! * Exceptionally large trees recorded include...

As nice a flavour as C. * The nuts are edible, but their small size (smaller than Common Hazel nuts) and very hard, thick nut shell (3 mm thick) makes them of little or no commercial value.

* As a xerophytic (drought-resistant) species, carob is well adapted to the ecological conditions of the Mediterranean region. * The pulp in the seedpods of carob is very nutritious and, due to its high sugar content, sweet-tasting and mildly laxative.

* The wood dries without difficulty and is often used in its green or wet state for turnery and bowl carving. * Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa is popularly and poetically known as Jacaranda City or Jakarandastad in Afrikaans.

* Native to the Rocky Mountains in North America. * It is closely related to Acer saccharum (Sugar Maple).