Tropical Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Lancaster

* They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods. * Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance.

The fruit is a long narrow capsule 5–23 cm (2.0–9.1 in) long, which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds .In the past, scented plants were sometimes treated as the distinct species N.

It is fast-growing, but not very long-lived by pine standards (to 200 years), and prefers humid climates and moist soil. * Deep green needles, 5"+; 6" cones; a source of pulp, timber, rosin, and turpentine; native to the southeast U.S.

Soon a crown of terminal buds appears and the plant starts branching. * Dracaena draco is a monocot with a tree-like growth habit currently placed in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoidae).When young it has a single stem.

* Flowers to 5 inches, purple, borne in profusion. * A species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae ,native to South China (which includes Hong Kong ) and southeastern Asia * Common names include Hong Kong Orchid Tree, and Hawaiian orchid tree.

The fruits are capsules 1 to 3 centimeters long and containing black seed. Can be dried for future use or soaked in water to produce a flavourful beverage. Sweet and delicious, but rather fibrous.

* Seed - best sown as soon as it is ripe in a warm greenhouse. Growth is optimal between temperatures of 20 - 25°c, ceasing when they fall below 10°c or rise above 30°c. An edible oil is obtained from the seed.

It is threatened by habitat destruction, mainly due to introduced grazing mammals. * Its natural habitats are dry forests and low shrublands. * Canavalia pubescens, commonly known as ʻawikiwiki or Lavafield Jack-bean, is a species of flowering plant...

Common names include Mexican Palo Verde , Parkinsonia , Jerusalem Thorn , and Jellybean Tree . * Large yellow fragrant flowers in loose clusters, in spring; green branches, doubly pinnate leaves with long narrow leaflets to 1' or more; 1" thorns; of open...

The fruit can be dried and stored for later use. * A soap is obtained from the fruit by rubbing the fruit in water. * An evergreen tree with compound leaves to 14", leaflets to 6"; flowers in small pendulous clusters to 8"; native to coastal areas, South...

* Often has drooping branchlets; foliage green; half-inch cones; native to Mexico and Central America. It has also been introduced to Belize , Costa Rica and Nicaragua , growing at 1200–3000 m altitude.

* The unusually shaped pods are often gathered, cleaned and decorated for use on Christmas trees and in dried arrangements. * Jacarandas are very widely grown as ornamental trees in Australia.

* Common names in other Namibian language groups Oshiwambo Otjiherero Kavango languages Omuwombamenje Caprivi languages Setswana Afrikaans Lemoendoring Deutsch Khoekhoegowab Bushman languages Gruenhaarbaum ?Khas

* Excellent as a fresh cut flower and for dried arrangements. * Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status) is noted for producing clusters of papery, funnel-shaped flowers in summer.

* Mature shoots are bound into bunches and used as scourers or as besoms. * Butcher's broom has been known to enhance blood flow to the brain, legs, and hands. Since Butcher's broom tightens blood vessels and capillaries, it is used to treat varicose...

* The stems of most members of this genus contain the alkaloid ephedrine and are valuable in the treatment of asthma and many other complaints of the respiratory system. * A delicious tea is made by steeping the green or dried twigs inboiling water until...

The plant sap and leaves are reputed to be toxic, and decaying leaves from the plant are toxic to other species of plant . The specific epithets sebifera and sebiferum mean "wax-bearing" and refer to the vegetable tallow that coats the seeds.

It also has numerous sharp needle-like spines produced on the leaf stems; these protect the stem growing point from browsing animals. The young shoots or suckers from the bottom of the plant are also used.

* Pinus brutia, the Turkish pine, is a pine native to the eastern Mediterranean region. * Pinus brutia is a popular ornamental tree, extensively planted in parks and gardens in hot dry areas (such as southern California, Arizona, southern Nevada and west...

* It is a low, creeping, woody shrub to about 1 m tall and 1–2 m wide but often smaller. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in the heavy shade of trees and in dry shade. For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April.

* Seedlings have up to 24 cotyledons on germination (the most of any plant)! * A very attractive tree. * Because of its isolation in a remote area, it escaped discovery until 1964.

The dark-green leaves are usually small, 2.5-7 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, thick and often spiny-toothed, particularly on young trees. * It is a large shrub or tree growing to 22 m tall.

Sinaloa to Chiapas - and Guatemala in montane, relatively open pine or pine-oak forests at altitudes from 900 to 2500 m. * Pinus devoniana is closely related to Pinus montezumae (the Montezuma Pine).

* Distribution and Ecology USA: Montana (E from 112° W), North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, E Nevada, Colorado, Nebraska, Oklahoma. * Branches usually drooping, smaller in all its parts, of more columnar habit.

* All parts of the plant have a distinguishing strong odour that is often likened to rotting peanuts or cashews. * Due to the tree of heaven's weedy habit, landowners and other organisations often resort to various methods of control in order to keep...

* Cassia fistula, known as the golden shower tree and by other names, is a flowering plant in the family Fabaceae. * Various species of bees and butterflies known to be pollinators of Cassia fistula flowers, especially carpenter bees (Xylocopa sp.).

'Northern Pearls' is a compact cultivar that grows to 6-8' tall and features racemes (3-5" long) of 5-petaled white flowers (to 2" diameter) which bloom in early spring. Elliptic, serrate, pale green leaves (to 3" long) turn yellow in fall.