Tropical Plant Heat Tolerant For Sale In Connecticut

Yellow Trumpetbush is a ruderal species , readily colonizing disturbed, rocky, sandy , and cleared land and occasionally becoming an invasive weed The leaves and roots of the plant contain bioactive compounds, especially monoterpenes , which may have...

* Peruvian Torch ( Trichocereus peruvianus ) is found high in the Andean mountain deserts of Peru and Ecuador and is similar to the San Pedro cactus ( Trichocereus pachanoi ) which is found in the same region.

The branchlets are covered with small, green, incurved, point-tipped, spirally arranged, overlapping leaves. The relatively short, mostly horizontal branches are in whorls around the slender, upright to slightly leaning trunk.

* The wiliwili is an unusual spine-bearer because this is a species that has evolved in the isolated Hawaiian Islands without the presence ungulates or other large herbivores. * It was reported in December 2005 that the Hawaiian wiliwili population was...

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

* Deep green needles, 5"+; 6" cones; a source of pulp, timber, rosin, and turpentine; native to the southeast U.S. * Slash Pine is named after the "slashes" – swampy ground overgrown with trees and bushes – that constitute its habitat.

* Cedro wood is still in considerable demand wherever it is available in the American tropics. * Cedro is a tree of the New World tropics, appearing in forests of moist and seasonally dry subtropical or tropical life zones (24) from latitude 26°N.

* 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.

It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * When the bark or leaves are cut they secrete a reddish resin, one of several sources of substances known as dragon's blood.

* Triadica sebifera , also referred to as Sapium sebiferum , is commonly known as the Chinese tallow tree , Florida aspen and Gray Popcorn Tree . The specific epithets sebifera and sebiferum mean "wax-bearing" and refer to the vegetable tallow that coats...

The leaves are scale-like, 2-5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. The foliage grows in dense sprays, varying from dull gray-green to bright glaucous blue-green in color.

* As an ornamental plant, it is appreciated for its hardiness in dry and nutritionally deficient conditions, popular in subtropical gardens where temperatures never fall below 5 °C to 7 °C, and as a warm-season bedding plant in temperate gardens.

The trees can live up to 450 years and grow to a height of 60 metres. Most natural stands in Australia and Papua New Guinea have been depleted by logging. The scientific name honours the botanist and explorer Allan Cunningham, who collected the first...

They can be found at an altitude of 0–1,850 metres (0–6,070 ft). * Hippocrepis emerus reaches on average 50–150 centimetres (20–59 in) of height, with a maximum of 200 centimetres (79 in).

* This small tree or shrub is well adapted to harsh conditions. * It has lovely red fall color. * Will grow on alkaline soils while withstanding climatic extremes; hot, cold and dry!

Blooms on new growth. Also tolerates some drought. Tolerates wide range of soils, including dry rocky or sandy soils. Can be grown as a hedge. Also useful for stabilizing embankments.

They are often, but not always, sweetly scented. The flowers grow in clusters at the end of each branch; they are white, pink, red or yellow, 2.5–5 cm (0.98–2.0 in) diameter, with a deeply 5-lobed corolla with a fringe round the central corolla tube.

* American Beautyberry ( Callicarpa americana ) is an open-habit, native shrub of the Southern United States which is often grown as an ornamental in gardens and yards . It is juicy, sweet, fleshy, slightly aromatic.

* An attractive, variable plant, often with a vertical central leader, horizontal side branches, and drooping branchlets; a loose, open habit; sharp, needlelike bright green foliage; native to Japan, Korea, North China * Succeeds in most soils if they...

* 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.

* An annual or, in tropical areas, perennial; 4-5" yellow flowers with a brownish-red base; calyx (the leafy external bud covering) becomes large, fleshy, and bright red as the plant sets seed and is used for drink flavorings and jelly; altogether a handy...

Conyzoides is prone to becoming a rampant environmental weed when grown outside of its natural range. It is also an insecticide and nematicide. High, with ovate leaves 2–6 cm long, and flowers are white to mauve.

* Cedro wood is still in considerable demand wherever it is available in the American tropics. * Cedro is a tree of the New World tropics, appearing in forests of moist and seasonally dry subtropical or tropical life zones (24) from latitude 26°N.

Prefers a deep sandy loam and a very sunny position. Found on rich bottom lands throughout the Mississippi River valley; will grow in the shade and often becomes a dense undergrowth in the forest.

* Water extract of Jacaranda mimosifolia shows higher antimicrobial action against Bacillus cereus and Escherichia coli than gentamicin sulfate does. * Jacarandas are very widely grown as ornamental trees in Australia.

* The seed is used in pinole or ground into a meal and used as a thickener in making bread or mixed with flour in making bread. The water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding .

It is a common roadside weed in the southwestern United States, and an invasive plant species in California native plant habitats. A poultice of the leaves has been applied to inflamed throat glands.