Tropical Plant Specimen Tree For Sale In Illinois

* Scarlet and yellow flowers followed by 2' pods; grows rapidly; dense-growing, fernlike, doubly compound leaves to 2'; native to Madagascar, much grown in southern Florida and Hawaii.

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

* Large yellow fragrant flowers in loose clusters, in spring; green branches, doubly pinnate leaves with long narrow leaflets to 1' or more; 1" thorns; of open habit; Wyman notes that it can be clipped into a hedge; native to tropical America.

Mature trees have reddish-scaled bark in the crown and fissured, dark gray bark near the ground. In some older texts the name is spelled " Pinus tabulaeformis ". It tends to develop a somewhat flattened and spreading crown with age, hence the specific...

* Antiphlogistic. * Dalbergia hupeana is a TREE growing to 15 m (49ft 3in). The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs). * Habitats: Sunny wild uplands. * Wood - hard, durable, very strong.

It was named after Russian botanist Peter von Glehn . * Picea glehnii ( Glehn's Spruce ) is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. * The wood is beautifully grained. It is found in Japan and Russia .

They are picked in early spring, dried and then used in Chinese medicine to clear the nasal passages. Bark is a coarse dark gray. The 10–16 cm white flowers that emerge from early to late spring, while beautiful and thick with a citrus-lemon fragrance,...

The branches are lined with cord-like, horizontal branchlets. * The Cook pine is often confused with the Norfolk Island pine because they have a similar appearance. The female cone is 10-15 cm.

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

* it is a very beneficial treatment for a variety of skin complaints, wounds, sores, burns, boils etc and is used in the form of liniment plasters, poultices, herbal steam baths and inhalers.

* A coniferous tree native to the Western Pacific Region. * An evergreen Tree growing to 45m. * It occurs in two localities, a southern population on Fraser Island and around Maryborough , and a northern population on the Atherton Tableland west of Cairns.

* Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine. However, its cones are fairly distinctive and I am not fully persuaded that the described P.

Wood - hard, durable, finishes to a fine lustre. Several sources say that it is a relatively short tree compared with the American relative. This is an extremely rare tree, almost extinct in its native range.

A herbal tea is made from the young shoot tips. The scaly bark has irregular longitudinal breaks, and lenticels that are very inconspicuous. The outer bark is about 6 mm thick with alternating tiered layers of pale yellowish brown corky bark, and brown...

* Beautiful 2" golden yellow pealike flowers in pendulous clusters to 8", in May; pod, to 7", has four wings; evergreen or semideciduous compound leaves; native to both Chile and New Zealand.

* An evergreen native to southeastern China with needlelike foliage; pyramidal when young, later flat-topped; 7" cones, purple when young. The species is named after Scottish botanist Robert Fortune, who discovered the tree in 1844.

It grows between 1300-3250 m. * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico. From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa , Mexico to Honduras . * Smooth-bark Mexican Pine ( Pinus pseudostrobus ), ( Chamite and Pacingo ) distinctive names in Spanish,...

* Australian Aborigines used the resin as cement. Peels easily; the Australian plywood industry was founded largely on hoop pine. Most natural stands in Australia and Papua New Guinea have been depleted by logging.

Trees cultivated from material collected from Nuble, which is the provenance closest to the Equator, were the most damaged by frosts. Another report suggests that it is not a good wind resister.

It is fairly widely cultivated outside its natural range in warm temperate and subtropical climates, particularly in Australia, where it is a common street tree. * Inland it is usually deciduous, especially where the winter season is very dry or there...

* Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine. However, its cones are fairly distinctive and I am not fully persuaded that the described P.

The wood of the tree is soft and is used for nesting by many hole-building birds such as barbets. * The sap sometimes stains yellow on fingers and clothes. * The flower bud is ampule-shaped and contains water.

* Grows slowly and in proper growing conditions has a long life. * In the wild, it may grow to as much as 200' tall. * A distinctive conifer , a member of the ancient and now disjointly distributed family Araucariaceae.

Those great stands have been largely depleted now, especially in southern Mexico and Mesoamerica (Perry 1991, Farjon and Styles 1997). * It grows on relatively moist areas with summer rainfalls, however specimens from its eastern and southern distribution...

In coastal California, it is a popular street and lawn tree, but has caused concern in San Francisco where its root systems are blamed for destroying sewer lines and sidewalks. * The natural range of the pohutukawa is the coastal regions of the North...

* Species of buckeye endemic to California , and the only buckeye native to the state. * Large shrub or small tree; silvery bark; dark green leaves; flowers fragrant, white to light pink.

* Grows slowly and in proper growing conditions has a long life. * In the wild, it may grow to as much as 200' tall. * A distinctive conifer , a member of the ancient and now disjointly distributed family Araucariaceae.