Tropical Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Illinois

Periodic selective pruning may be needed to keep these plants in the 4' range as they can get larger with age, time, and warm winters. Petite Red Oleander produces 1" deep red flowers atop a compact, cold hardy dwarf plant.

A real conversation piece whether in flower or not. May freeze back in winter but is reliably hardy in zones 9 and warmer. Grow it as a specimen or in the back of a border as a perennial in mild winter areas.

At temperatures below about 65 o F the Yellow Shrimp Plant may begin to lose foliage until temperatures become sufficiently warm. Provide a well drained, average moist, moderately fertile soil for the best results.

The Blue Sky Vine is a vigorous and hardy tropical vine that can be grown as a tuberous rooted, summer flowering perennial into zone 8B. In frost free areas this heat and sun loving vine is evergreen and can flower throughout the year.

Large, bright sunny yellow, full and rounded flowers are produced throughout the growing season on this vigorous Tropical Hibiscus. Avoid using a saucer or empty any excess water from it 30-40 minutes after watering.

They are commonly successfully used as landscape shrubs in the warmer parts of zone 9 and throughout much of zone 10. Most Tropical Hibiscus are sun and heat loving, usually medium to large, tropical shrubs with excellent flower power and even some salt...

The Eoz Variegated Fireball Bromeliad makes an easy and low maintenance hanging basket with a tropical look. The wide foliage of this easy to grow Bromeliad is edged in broad streaks of creamy white to rich pink.

Allow the soil to become slightly dry between waterings approximately to a depth of between 1/2" deep for small containers to 1" deep for large containers. They are commonly successfully used as landscape shrubs in the warmer parts of zone 9 and throughout...

Their pollen and nectar rich flowers attract a host of pollinators including bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. St. John's Hibiscus has a naturally upright to vase shaped somewhat open habit but can easily be trimmed to keep it fuller and shaped into...

It can be divided and shared with friends but when replanted make sure to plant the rhizomes themselves on top of the soil and use a sharply draining medium. All rights reserved. Image courtesy of Agristarts.

To use the spikes of flowers in arrangements be sure to remove them without including any portion of the woody vine or they will quickly wilt. The Sandpaper Vine is considered to be somewhat drought resistant once well-established but will have the best...

Their pollen and nectar rich flowers attract a host of pollinators including bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. This may be the same as Rose Queen Hibiscus according to some sources.

Their pollen and nectar rich flowers attract a host of pollinators including bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Grow the Mount Everest Hibiscus as a container plant to add a cool tropical effect.

This beautiful double red oleander is considered fairly cold hardy and while the stems of ours, here in Louisiana, froze to ground level during the winters of 2009-10 and 2010-11, they did return from the roots.

Can be trained on a trellis or other support. Hanging racemes of large deep yellow flowers, that are similar in form to a parrot's beak, are borne from mid-spring to fall on this large arching shrub.

Hybrid Orchid Cactus typically open at night but often last well through the next day. Epiphyllums are one of the few true jungle Cacti where they are often found growing with the orchids and bromeliads far removed from the forest floor.

It can also be found growing abundantly in much of Latin America and the West Indies. * It grows to a height of 3 metres and has whorls of striking lipped flowers, that are most commonly orange, but can vary to red, white, and purple.

* The young pods are also eaten, along with the leaves. Flower in headache, dimness of vision, Catarrh, Headache, cooling and improving appetite, bitter, astringent, acrid, antipyretic.

* An attractive plant with small pink flowers; can be grown as an annual in cold areas; native to the tropics. * Grown mostly as a curiosity, for the compound leaflets fold up promptly along the midrib when touched.

Allow the soil to become slightly dry between waterings approximately to a depth of between 1/2" deep for small containers to 1" deep for large containers. They are commonly successfully used as landscape shrubs in the warmer parts of zone 9 and throughout...

* In 2014, global production of papayas was 12.7 million tonnes, led by India with 44% of the world total. * The papaya is a small, sparsely branched tree, usually with a single stem growing from 5 to 10 m (16 to 33 ft) tall, with spirally arranged leaves...

They are often, but not always, sweetly scented. The leaves are in pairs or whorls of three, thick and leathery, dark green, narrow lanceolate, 5–21 cm (2.0–8.3 in) long and 1–3.5 cm (0.39–1.4 in) broad, and with an entire margin.

It is an annual or perennial herb or woody-based subshrub , growing to 2–2.5 m (7–8 ft) tall. * The roselle ( Hibiscus sabdariffa ) is a species of Hibiscus native to the Old World tropics, used for the production of bast fibre and as an infusion...

In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu". * Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe .

The fruits dry and harden to brown capsules. * It is best known as the source of the natural pigment annatto , produced from the fruit . * Not only was the dye used anciently to color food, but also to dye cloth and paint the skin (which is still done...

Many others have mentioned that General Pershing is probably best left to large containers in areas north of zone 9,10, and 11 where it can grow to become a fairly large evergreen shrub or small weeping tree standard.

* The plant is also used as a topical ointment against jaundice, toothache, ulcers and to treat muscular-skeletal problems. * Entada rheedii, commonly known as the African dream herb or snuff box sea bean, and as the cacoon vine in Jamaica, is a large...