Tropical Plant Seeds For Sale In Torrance

* 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.

Formerly very large trees were common, yielding large volumes of an attractive, easily worked timber that provided the raw material for furniture and finish carpentry throughout the country.

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...

* This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * The leaves are used in the treatment of cancer and hepatoma. * This very symmetrical plant supports a crown of shiny, dark green leaves on a thick shaggy trunk that is...

* The leaves are needle-like, dark green, usually 3 per fascicle, 15–20 cm long, the fascicle sheath 1–2 cm long and persistent. The bark is thick and dark brown, with deep longitudinal fissures.

They prepared a brew called "achuma" , "huachuma" or "cimora" which was used during ritualistic ceremonies to diagnose the spiritual links to a patient's illness. * The active compound is 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine or mescaline which was reported...

* This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * The leaves are used in the treatment of cancer and hepatoma. * This very symmetrical plant supports a crown of shiny, dark green leaves on a thick shaggy trunk that is...

The fruits dry and harden to brown capsules. * The plant bears pink flowers and bright red spiny fruits which contain red seeds. * Annatto, obtained from the oily arils of the seeds is the world's second most important (after caramel) natural colorant...

It has been cultivated in several suptropical parts of the world for paper industry. Tecunumanii is equal to or less than P. It occurs in two separated populations in their native habitats.

It is drought-tolerant and grows well in warm climates. The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock . The flowers attract bees , butterflies , and hummingbirds .

* The fruit is sweet and aromatic with the flavour of apricots. * They can also be made into jellies, jams, pies, cakes etc. * It is easily identifiable with beautiful feather palm pinnate leaves that arch inwards towards a thick stout trunk.

From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa , Mexico to Honduras . * It occurs within a rainfalls regime mostly in summer. It grows between 1300-3250 m. * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico.

* The whole plant is antiinflammatory and antiallergic. High, with ovate leaves 2–6 cm long, and flowers are white to mauve. The juice of the fresh plant is also useful in treating post-partum uterine haemorrhage.

As a result of its ready dispersal by sea, Entada rheedii is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical countries, but strangely not the Americas. * The species is employed in African traditional medicine to induce vivid dreams, enabling communication...

Readily accepts a wide variety of stains and finishes. A plain timber of even texture without prominent grain or growth rings. * Araucaria cunninghamii is a species of Araucaria known as hoop pine.

* The unusually shaped pods are often gathered, cleaned and decorated for use on Christmas trees and in dried arrangements. * Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa is popularly and poetically known as Jacaranda City or Jakarandastad in...

* Grown mostly as a curiosity, for the compound leaflets fold up promptly along the midrib when touched. * The stem is erect in young plants, but becomes creeping or trailing with age.

* Cenchrus ciliaris has become naturalised and often an invasive species in Australia, the southwestern United States, Hawaii, Mexico, Central America, South America, and Macaronesia * In the Sonoran Desert it was introduced for erosion control.

Intermediate resistance to powdery mildew. Reduce water and temperature for a week to harden seedlings. 23,600 seeds/lb. Good soil moisture is important in early stages of growth and during pollination when fruits are setting.

* It is a small soft wooded tree up to 3–8 m, leaves 15–30 cm long; leaflets 10–20 pairs or more and an odd one. * Leaves used as tonic, diuretic, laxative, antipyretic, chewed to disinfect mouth and throat.

The young leaves are needle-like, while the broader adult leaves are triangular and scale-like. The relatively short, mostly horizontal branches are in whorls around the slender, upright to slightly leaning trunk.

As a result of its ready dispersal by sea, Entada rheedii is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical countries, but strangely not the Americas. * The species is employed in African traditional medicine to induce vivid dreams, enabling communication...

It is possibly native to Madagascar . * These plants are an invasive species in Florida , known as Australian pines. * Casuarina equisetifolia is a species of she-oak of the genus Casuarina , native to Australasia , southeast Asia such as in Philippines...

* Dodonaea viscosa can be grown from seeds. * The fruit is a capsule 1.5 cm (0.59 in) broad, red ripening brown, with two to four wings. Viscosa flowers lack petals during evolution to increase exposure to the wind.

* It is quite drought tolerant as it will drop its leaves during dry periods for up to 8 months. It is most often grown as a living fence or interplanted with other species for use as timber.

An agreeable cooling taste, somewhat like an orange with a mixture of acid. For eating right out of the fruit, allow the fruit to wrinkle for a few days to raise the sugar levels and enhance the flavor.

Ripens in early June. Fruit is large enough to make fresh cobbler with just a few berries. Also great for juice or wine. The world's biggest blackberry — up to 3" long! This thorny variety blooms earlier and longer than others.