Tropical Plant Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Olathe

* Canavalia gladiata, usually called Sword Bean, is a domesticated plant species in the legume (Fabaceae) family. In Telugu it is called 'chamma kaya' also called 'Tammi kaya' * The fruits are eaten as a vegetable in Africa and Asia.

* The average yield from wild trees in the Himalayas is 83kg per year, though some trees yield up to 200kg. * They are commonly served raw and peeled. * The fruit contains about 4.9% sugars, 3.2% protein, 0.9% pectin.

* Chia (Salvia hispanica) was the third most important food of the Aztecs in the time of Cortez (behind corn and beans and in front of amaranth), and has long been an important crop in Mesoamerica for the unique nutritional qualities of its seed.

* This heirloom variety was created by Rutgers University in the 1930's. It produces an abundance of medium sized round bright crimson tomatoes. It was the main commercial tomato grown in New Jersey for many years.

* The leaves are mucilaginous and fairly bland, we use them in bulk in summer salads. * Malva moschata ( Musk-mallow ) is a species of Malva native to Europe and southwestern Asia , from Spain north to the British Isles and Poland , and east to southern...

* Plums are grown commercially in orchards, but modern rootstocks, together with self-fertile strains, training and pruning methods, allow single plums to be grown in relatively small spaces.

Oxyacantha, a name that has now been rejected as being of uncertain application. * A small, shrubby, rounded tree thorns; dark green leaves; white flowers with red anthers; scarlet fruit to 1/2".

It also has more intense fall color, glossier leaves and more abundant fruit production. It is a very worthy landscape shrub! * Common name is in reference to the tart and bitter berries which are technically edible but so astringent as to cause choking...

* The bush grows to a maximum height of 13 feet (4 m ), and the prickles are sparse to scattered along the stalks.

* The flowers are white, 10–15 mm in diameter and grow in axillary clusters. * Coffea arabica is a species of Coffea originally indigenous to the mountains of Yemen in the Arabian Peninsula , hence its name, and also from the southwestern highlands...

It is an upright, fast-growing, deciduous tree that typically grows to 15-20' tall with a rounded form. Apricots are technically edible fresh from the plant (some say bitter and inedible), but are at any rate of very poor quality in comparison to commercially...

* Oregon cherry or Bitter cherry ( Prunus emarginata ) is a species of Prunus native to western North America , from British Columbia south to California , and east to western Wyoming and Arizona .

Nootka rose serves as the larval host of the Mourning Cloak and Grey Hairstreak butterflies. * Mostly solitary rose-pink flowers, 1 1/2-2 1/2'; round hips to about 1", bright red; native to the Rocky Mountains, California to Alaska.

Oxyacantha, a name that has now been rejected as being of uncertain application. * A small, shrubby, rounded tree thorns; dark green leaves; white flowers with red anthers; scarlet fruit to 1/2".

* White flowers in May in loose clusters to 4", followed by 1/2" brown fruits, edible when overripe, formerly used in medicine; leaves resemble maple leaves; round, sometimes irregular crown; native to Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor.

* Few trees flower more elegantly-- white, bell-shaped, 3/4" blooms dangling like raindrops in rows along year-old branches; spring flowering; the limbs arch up and out to form a rounded, horizontal canopy; few pests; likes rich, acid soil; an understory...

The unripe green fruit can be eaten cooked, usually in curries, salads, and stews. Green papaya is used in Southeast Asian cooking, both raw and cooked. All parts of the plant contain latex in articulated laticifers.

Their snowy white ''starfish'' shaped blooms; truly beautiful glossy foliage and delectable nuts in the fall make a unique, ornamental and useful hedge or specimen tree. Plant two for cross-pollination.

* 2" white or pale pink flowers in small clusters in summer. * The seed is a good source of vitamin E, it can be ground and mixed with flour or added to other foods as a supplement.

* Sorbus decora, commonly known as the showy mountain-ash or "dogberry" is a deciduous shrub or very small tree native to northeastern North America. Like the American mountain-ash (Sorbus Americana), the showy mountain-ash has pinnately compound leaves...

* The fruits, stems and roots are diuretic, febrifuge and sedative. They are used in the treatment of stones in the urinary tract, rheumatoid arthralgia, cancers of the liver and oesophagus.

* Carya floridana (syn. * The kernel is sweet, though the shell is thick. Hicoria floridana) the scrub hickory, is a tree native to the southeastern United States, where it is endemic in central Florida.

* The seeds, similar to large pine nuts, are edible, and are extensively harvested in southern Brazil. * It is a popular garden tree in subtropical areas, planted for its unusual effect of the thick, 'reptilian' branches with a very symmetrical appearance.

It makes a delicious snack and can also be used as a staple food. The seeds are often added to ice cream, cakes, puddings etc. It is also a widespread horticultural tree, besides being cultivated for the seeds.

* The fruit is rich in iron and copper. * It is a good bird plant with 3/8" purple-black fruit that they love to eat. * The fruit, which are pomes, are edible and can be eaten raw or cooked.

Oregon-grape is resistant to summer drought, tolerates poor soils, and does not create excessive leaf litter. The flowers, borne in late spring, are yellow.Oregon-grape is used in gardens and natural landscaping similarly to barberry, as a plant suited...

* Umbellularia californica is a large tree native to coastal forests of California and slightly extended into Oregon .