Timber Tree Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In San Jose

Giant chinkapin (Castanopsis chrysophylla), also called golden chinkapin, giant evergreen-chinkapin, and goldenleaf chestnut, is an interesting hardwood species in a landscape dominated by coniferous forests.

* Eucalyptus cloeziana, Gympie Messmate, is a small to tall tree with rough bark on most or the whole of the trunk and larger branches. * The bark is soft, flaky, tessellated, light brown or yellow-brown, where smooth, greyish white or yellowish above.

Ponderosa from British Columbia, western Montana, Idaho, and Washington, Oregon, California & Nevada east of the Cascades crest. * An infusion of the dried buds has been used as an eye wash.

* Pinus cooperi, sometimes called Cooper's pine or Cooper pine, is a medium-sized pine which is endemic to Mexico. Ornelasii (Martinez) C.E. Blanco 1950 (Farjon and Styles 1997). Lutea Blanco ex Martinez 1945 non Walter 1788, nec Gordon & Glendinning...

* An essential oil called Cassie is distilled from the flowers. * A deliciously scented essential oil, it has a fragrance of violets. * While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern...

* The Canary Island Pine ( Pinus canariensis ) is a species in the genus Pinus , family Pinaceae , native and endemic to the outer Canary Islands ( Gran Canaria , Tenerife , Hierro and La Palma ) in the Atlantic Ocean .

Sinaloa to Chiapas - and Guatemala in montane, relatively open pine or pine-oak forests at altitudes from 900 to 2500 m. * It is one of the most elementally Mexican of pines. * It is found in Mexico - from S.

* The Pacific race is found in California northward from the Transverse Ranges and west of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range into northern Oregon. * An infusion of the dried buds has been used as an eye wash.

* The wood, durable, easy to saw, yet resistant to termites, is widely used in Australia for strong durable construction, interior finish, flooring, etc. * The common name is based on the red bark of younger growth.

* The Arizona White Oak is a perennial tree and may grow up to 60 ft with a diameter of 3.3 ft. * It usually occurs as a native shrub or a medium sized tree. The amount of acorns produced can also vary year to year, one year there may be about 32,000...

The juice is milky and acrid. * The trees range from 40–60 feet (12–18 m) high with short trunk and round-topped head. In the axil of every growing leaf is found a growing spine which when mature is about 1 inch (2.5 cm) long, and rather formidable.

Dark green needles, to 18" (9" in older trees), in tufts at ends of branchlets; hangs on to its cones (to 20") for as long as 20 years; native from Virginia to Florida and Mississippi.

Easily grown from seed in the early spring, the seeds are soaked in water to start germination. * Of irregular habit, roughly conical. Needles tend to be quite long but can be reduced with the pruning techniques.

Quercus myrtifolia ( myrtle oak ) is a North American species of oaks in the beech family . * Myrtle oak features shiny, leathery leaves (to 2” long) which are dark green above and yellow-green to orange-brown beneath.

This resistance to splitting led to its use for making mauls, pulleys, wheel hubs, agricultural rollers, bowls, and paving blocks. * The leaf of Black Gum is variable in size and shape.

* A handsome species, one of the rarest in cultivation (rare even in its own Yalung R.valley) * A small, 8-30' tree/shrub.

* Resembles Celtis but has winged fruits to 3/4"; dark green foliage; "gray-brown bark exfoliates in patches and is quite handsome...for the plant collector this is a treasure to be unearthed" (Dirr); native to northern and central China.

* Gambel oak ( Quercus gambelii ) is a deciduous small tree or large shrub widespread in the foothills and lower mountain elevations of the central southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico : its range is centered on the Colorado Plateau –...

This pine is a medium-sized species with a height of 20–30 m and a trunk diameter of 35–80 cm. * Pinus engelmannii, commonly known as the Apache pine, is a tree of Northern Mexico, in the Sierra Madre Occidental with its range extending a short distance...

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

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

* Wood - close-grained, heavy, hard, rather tough, strong, durable in contact with the soil. It weighs 47lb per cubic foot. * The chestnut oak is readily identified by its massively-ridged dark gray-brown bark, the thickest of any eastern North American...

Conservation Plant Characteristics Acer saccharum Marsh. * A decidious Tree growing to 30 m. * Better adapted to growing in zones 7-8 than the seeds collected further north. * A species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America,...

A widely used landscape tree especially in the Midwest and East. It is planted with great success as far north as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. An important forestry tree in Europe it is native to central and south central Europe and Turkey.

This can be sucked directly from the flowers, shaken into a bowl or washed out in a small quantity of water. The nectar falls in showers when the flowers are shaken. * A very ornamental plant, it is often grown as a street tree in suitable climates.

* Depending on the growing conditions, live oaks vary from the shrubby to large and spreading: typical open-grown trees reach 15 meters (50 feet) in height, but may span nearly 50 meters.

* This species often grows in mixed in stands with several other pines and/or junipers, in Arizona most often with Apache Pine and Alligator Juniper, but also grows in pure stands.