Street Tree Urban Tolerant Plant For Sale In Austin

Americana, though it is usually sold under that name. * The wood is hard, heavy, rather strong, tough, elastic, brittle, coarse-grained. Used for tool handles, furniture etc. * Green Ash is one of the most widely planted ornamental trees throughout the...

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

Seeds begin to be forming in mid-spring and ripen over the course of the summer months, finally dropping in the fall. * The wood is hard, yellowish-white to pale reddish, with the heartwood not distinct; it is used for furniture and turnery * The plant...

* The seeds have been roasted and used as a coffee substitute. Seedpods - the pulp is sweet and can be eaten raw or made into sugar. * Current research is examining the leaves as a potential source of anticancer compounds.

The original cross may have occurred as early as the 1640s, after which this tree became widely planted in London and other major European cities because of its perceived tolerance for urban pollution.

* The wood is heavy, strong, very hard. * Attractive compound leaves, gray-green when young, olive green when mature; white flowers in 5" erect clusters in June and July, "smell like new mown grass" (Dirr); attractive bark, "peeling with maturity, rich...

* Better adapted to growing in zones 7-8 than the seeds collected further north. Sugar maple ACSA3 Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Tree, Shrub Native Status L48 (N), CAN (N) Federal T/E Status National Wetland Indicator UPL, FACU Morphology/Physiology...

* A maple native to much of Europe , north to southern England (where it is the only native maple), Denmark , Poland and Belarus , and also southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus , and north Africa in the Atlas Mountains.

The original cross may have occurred as early as the 1640s, after which this tree became widely planted in London and other major European cities because of its perceived tolerance for urban pollution.

* Used as a street and shade tree in Florida. * In the low-elevation deserts of Arizona, it is the only tree whose leaves turn scarlet in fall. * Foliage dark green in summer, orange or orange red in fall.

The Poinciana is also the national flower of St. Kitts and Nevis. In the wild it is endangered , but it is widely cultivated elsewhere. * In areas with a marked dry season, it sheds its leaves during the drought, but in other areas it is virtually evergreen.

It is resistant to drought and moderate cold. * The flowers are creamy-whitish in the center and pink towards the tips of their five petals. * Its trunk is bottle-shaped, generally bulging in its lower third, measuring up to 2 metres (7 ft) in girth.

* This species boasts the largest simple leaf and single flower of any native plant in North America. * Many of the tree's branches bend under the weight of the large foliage. * It is a medium-sized understory tree 15-20 m tall, distinguished from other...

* This beautiful tropical flowering tree from the Carribean will do well in protected locations in zone 9 and anywhere in zones 10 and 11.

A very valuable timber tree in N. It weighs 26lb per cubic foot. * Catalpa speciosa , commonly known as the Northern Catalpa , is a species of Catalpa that is native to the midwestern United States in Arkansas , Illinois , Indiana , Missouri , Kentucky...

* Cedro wood is still in considerable demand wherever it is available in the American tropics. It has also been used successfully as cacao and coffee shade in Trinidad. * Cedro is an important avenue and shade tree in the West Indies and South America,...

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

* Native to Japan. Easily grown from seed in the early spring, the seeds are soaked in water to start germination. * It is one of the classic bonsai subjects. * Thick, slightly twisted bright green 3-4 1/2" needles.

* Over most of its range, red maple is adaptable to a very wide range of site conditions. * Brilliant deep scarlet foliage in autumn * One of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America * A decidious Tree growing to 30 m.

* Gleditsia caspica ( Caspian Locust or Persian Honeylocust ) is a species of Gleditsia native to western Asia , in the Caucasus region of Azerbaijan and northern Iran , close to the Caspian Sea .

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 tree and is excellent for the U.S. Northeast.

* Gmelina arborea leaves are considered good for cattle (crude protein – 11.9%) and are also used as a feed to eri-silkworm. * This tree is commonly planted as a garden and an avenue tree; growing in villages along agricultural land and on village community...

* A species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas. * A decidious Tree growing to 30 m.

* Used as a street and shade tree in Florida. * In the low-elevation deserts of Arizona, it is the only tree whose leaves turn scarlet in fall. * Foliage dark green in summer, orange or orange red in fall.

The leaves are oval, 4 to 7 cm (1.6 to 2.8 in) long, glossy dark green above, slightly paler below. 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...

* Over most of its range, red maple is adaptable to a very wide range of site conditions. * Brilliant deep scarlet foliage in autumn * One of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America * A decidious Tree growing to 30 m.

* Gmelina arborea leaves are considered good for cattle (crude protein – 11.9%) and are also used as a feed to eri-silkworm. * This tree is commonly planted as a garden and an avenue tree; growing in villages along agricultural land and on village community...