Tropical Plant Specimen Tree For Sale In Houston

* Pinus contorta is cultivated as an ornamental tree by the horticulture industry. The Shore pine's (ssp. Plant nurseries grow Pinus contorta subsp. Murrayana for use in traditional and wildlife gardens, and as smaller selections of the native plant for...

* In the wild, it may grow to as much as 200' tall. * The tree is endemic to Norfolk Island , a small island in the Pacific Ocean between Australia , New Zealand and New Caledonia.

The single species it contains, Spathodea campanulata, is commonly known as the African tuliptree, fountain tree, pichkari or Nandi flame. * This tree is planted extensively as an ornamental tree throughout the tropics and is much appreciated for its...

President Carter ordered a tree house built within the Cedar for his daughter Amy. * An Atlas Cedar is planted at the White House South Lawn in Washington, DC. * The Atlas Cedar is a cedar native to the Atlas Mountains of Algeria ( Tell Atlas ) and Morocco...

, Japan , where it grows at 1500-2000 m altitude. * Picea koyamae ( Koyama's Spruce ; Japanese : yatsugatake-tohhi ) is a rare spruce , native to Akaishi Mountains and Yatsugatake Mountains , or Nagano and Yamanashi Prefectures in central Honsh?

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

The species is named after Scottish botanist Robert Fortune, who discovered the tree in 1844. The tree grows in hills, mountains, and broadleaf forests at elevations of 200–1400 m.

* It is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 50-70 m tall, exceptionally 78 m, and with a trunk diameter of up to 2.7 m. The crown is a very neat broad conic shape in young trees with a strongly drooping lead shoot, becoming cylindric in older...

* An unusual tree in that it has a high content of latex in the leaves and stems. It is native to central China where its bark is used in a tonic. * Gutta-percha, known as Du Zhong in China, is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered...

* Pinus contorta is cultivated as an ornamental tree by the horticulture industry. The Shore pine's (ssp. Plant nurseries grow Pinus contorta subsp. Murrayana for use in traditional and wildlife gardens, and as smaller selections of the native plant for...

It grows at high altitudes in mountain valleys at altitudes of 1800–4300 m (rarely as low as 1200 m), and is a tree from 30–50 m in height. It grows in a temperate climate with dry winters and wet summers.

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

* Range China and Tibet * Typically found in high mountains where the climate is cold and wet.

The leaves, tender pods and seeds are edible, but they must be previously boiled and the water discarded. * This plant has medicinal value and it contains a compound named Barakol.

* It forms dense forests, like those found in the Los Alerces and Nahuel Huapi national parks. One tree, felled by a storm in 1954, reportedly measured 2.55 m (8.4 ft)in diameter at the height of a man's chest and a total volume, including the branches,...

* The Jeffrey pine is closely related to the ponderosa pine and is similar in appearance. It is mainly found in California, but also in the westernmost part of Nevada, southwestern Oregon, and northern Baja California.

* The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range.

* Bark smooth to wrinkled. * The trees are evergreen, 12 to 15 m tall. * Maple makes a handsome street tree in SE China.

Seeds gray-brown, subovoid, 7-14 mm including a pale brown wing with purplish spots. Bark gray or brown-gray, breaking into thick, irregular plates. It is found in Bhutan and China .

* An edible oil is obtained from the seed that is used for cooking. * A graceful evergreen tree with leathery 1 1/4" leaves, pendulous branches; greenish flowers in the leaf axils, seeds have scarlet arils (fleshy appendages); used in Florida and Southern...

The foliage is arranged in flat sprays; adult leaves are scale-like, 1.5–2 mm long, with pointed tips (unlike the blunt tips of the leaves of the related Chamaecyparis obtusa (Hinoki Cypress).

* Native to the west coast of North America , from British Columbia to California. * Red or orange berries in the fall; peeling bark reveals reddish inner bark. * It is in flower from Apr to May, and the seeds ripen in October.

Mice, voles, shrews, and chipmunks consumed an estimated 65 percent of a Douglas fir seed crop following dispersal in western Oregon. * It is planted as a specimen tree or in mass screenings.

* The use of S. Album in India is noted in literature for over two thousand years. Album has been the primary source of sandalwood and the derived oil. * Sandalwood oil has been widely used in folk medicine for treatment of common colds, bronchitis

Because of its decorative leaves, fragrant flowers, and spreading crown, it is best known as an ornamental plant. It is native from East Africa, southern coastal India to Malesia and Australia.

* Silky camellia is an under-story woodland species with rich brown colored bark * It grows best in partial shade in well draining soils. * 'Silky Camellia' has been cultivated in the US since 1752.

It is native to northeastern Asia , from Sakhalin and Japan west to southwestern China . * Kalopanax septemlobus , common name Kalopanax or Prickly Castor-oil Tree , is a deciduous tree in the family Araliaceae , the sole species in the genus Kalopanax...