Tropical Plant Specimen Tree For Sale In Milwaukee

It is also known as Farges' fir, after the French missionary, botanist and plant collector, Paul Guillaume Farges, 1844-1912. * Bark smooth, grey, finely flaky on young trees, becoming grey-brown, scaly, and fissured on old trees * Branchlets smooth,...

* A species of Albizia , native to tropical southern Asia , and widely cultivated and naturalised in other tropical and subtropical regions. * A tropical tree with compound leaves and clustered yellow-green flowers.

They grow to an average height of 50–85 m (165–280 ft) and 6–8 m (18–24 ft) in diameter. Record trees have been measured to be 94.8 m (311 ft) in height and 17 m (57 ft) in diameter.

* Widely employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially for its antiseptic and healing properties on wounds, infections etc, and also for its beneficial effects upon the chest and lungs.

It has also naturalised on Norfolk Island to the north. * The pohutukawa is popular in cultivation, and there are fine examples in most North Island coastal cities. Vigorous and easy to grow, the tree flourishes well south of its natural range, and has...

* Picea glehnii ( Glehn's Spruce ) is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. * The wood is beautifully grained. It is also valued for its use in the pulp industry to make paper.

This tree accepts from subtropical to cool climate. Its temperature needs fluctuate between 19 to 10°C on average a year. Formerly very large trees were common, yielding large volumes of an attractive, easily worked timber that provided the raw material...

* China: predominantly at 600-3000 m elevation on the high plateaus of Yunnan (Li 1997), but extending N into Sichuan, where it intergrades with P. Tabuliformis, and S into N Burma, where it intergrades with P.

Symptoms of laburnum poisoning may include intense sleepiness, vomiting, convulsive movements, coma, slight frothing at the mouth and unequally dilated pupils. Laburnum seed can poison anyone who mistakes the seeds for peas.

* It is much loved in the Caribbean ; for example, many Puerto Rican paintings feature Flamboyant Trees, it can also be found in The Bahamas as well. In addition to its ornamental value, it is also a useful shade tree in tropical conditions, because it...

It is native to northeast Asia , from the mountains of central Japan and the Changbai Mountains on the China - North Korea border, north to eastern Siberia , including the Sikhote-Alin , Kuril Islands , Sakhalin and Kamchatka .

These buds are often used by children who play with its ability to squirt the water. * The sap sometimes stains yellow on fingers and clothes. * In Neotropical gardens and parks, their nectar is popular with many hummingbirds, such as the black-throated...

In China, it is known as luo han song . * Podocarpus macrophyllus ( Kusamaki or Inumaki ) is a conifer in the genus Podocarpus , family Podocarpaceae . Kusamaki and Inumaki are Japanese names for this tree, and Kusamaki is increasingly being used as the...

When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in a cold frame for at least their first winter. Stratify stored seed for 3 weeks at 1°c and sow in spring.

* Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico. From 26° to 15° north latitude, from Sinaloa , Mexico to Honduras . It has been introduced in New Zealand near sea level and has done well.

* It is a medium-size, evergreen tree growing up to 18 m with beautiful yellow flowers. * Other uses include as fodder plant, in intercropping systems, windbreaks, and shelter belts.

It weighs 28lb per cubic foot. The roots have been used to make thread for sewing baskets, canoe skins etc. Wood - straight-grained, soft, light, not strong. Pitch can be obtained from the trunk.

Specific epithet honors Max Loebner, a German horticulturist, who made the first cross of this hybrid in the early 1900s. A number of hybrid cultivars are now available in commerce featuring flowers that are white, blush-pink, lilac pink or pink.

* One of the smaller firs, preferring cooler climates.

It grows well in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and South Africa. It occurs in two separated populations in their native habitats. A number of processing studies in various countries have indicated that the wood is very acceptable for pulp, paper and solid...

* A strikingly attractive tree when mature; horizontal major branches curve up at the tips; cone-shaped when young, broadening somewhat with maturity; branchlets droop straight down and form curtains to 7-8' long; bark is dark pinkish gray, in round plates;...

At maturity, it is often 40 metres tall, though the largest specimens can exceed 80 metres tall. * Flooded gum is an attractive, straight-trunked tree much in demand outside Australia for its timber and fibre.

It is near threatened in the wild, but is widely cultivated in China for its bark , highly valued in herbology such as Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). * An unusual tree in that it has a high content of latex in the leaves and stems.

* It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * Silky camellia is a large, open-branched shrub growing up to 10 feet tall. * Silky camellia is an under-story woodland species with rich brown colored bark * It grows best in partial...

Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. * The tree grows to a height of 55 metres (180 ft) with a trunk exceeding 1 metre (3 ft) in diameter, and is buttressed at the base.

It was originally discovered near the village of Zaovine on the Tara Mountain in 1875, and named by the Serbian botanist Josif Pancic ; the epithet omorika is simply the Serbian word for "spruce"; hence, the scientific name means "Spruce-spruce".

Its range extends south and east from the Khasi Hills in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya, to northern Thailand, Philippines, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, southernmost China, and Vietnam.