Urban Tolerant Plant Shade Tree For Sale In Colorado Springs

The tree is short-lived in temperate climates, rarely reaching more than 60 years of age, but in its native environment may live to between 100 and 150 year. The leaves are deciduous in cold areas, but semi-evergreen in warmer climates, < 7 cm long and...

* Acer platanoides (Norway maple) is a species of maple native to eastern and central Europe and western Asia, from France east to Russia, north to southern Scandinavia and southeast to northern Iran.

Well worth growing in zone 8 gardens. It wmay survive in zone 7, but a cold winter could do it in. The new growth and samaras are bright red. The tree features slender leaves, unlike the multilobed leaves found on most maple species.

* The seeds have been roasted and used as a coffee substitute. * Current research is examining the leaves as a potential source of anticancer compounds. The juiceof the pods is antiseptic.

It is valued for its use in the pulp industry to make paper. * Moderately wind resistant, it is sometimes planted in shelterbelts. * Picea omorika ( Serbian Spruce ) is a rare, local spruce , endemic to the Drina River valley in western Serbia and eastern...

* A small tree with a sturdy upright trunk which divides into stout branches that usually spread to form a broad flat head. Found on rich bottom lands throughout the Mississippi River valley; will grow in the shade and often becomes a dense undergrowth...

* An impressive stout tree of open, spreading, rounded habit, more pyramidal when young; flowers yellow green in late spring; dark green leaves, sometimes brownish in fall; fruit, pink or reddish, 2-3", vaguely resembles a cucumber--very vaguely; native...

* It lives in the understory in moist, rocky soils on river banks, ravines, woods, and cliffs. * A deciduous tree native to the southeastern United States from North Carolina south to northwest Florida and west to eastern Texas.

* Fall colors are blends of gold and red. * Bight green with some texture.

Grows 50-60 feet in height. Grows the same as River's Beech but leaves have a striking pink and white edge. Beautiful specimen tree.

The leaves vary in color from bright green to dark green. * A large roundish or oval shrub or small tree; inconspicuous creamy flowers, dark blue fruit on red stems; likes moist acid soil, full sun or part shade; native to swamps but does well in drier...

Its leaves serve as a wonderful laxative as well as tonic for the body. * Buddhist legend tells that Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment (bodhi) while meditating underneath a Ficus religiosa.

It is planted with great success as far north as Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. In the UK the tree is planted as an ornamental tree in parks and gardens. The tree can be long-lived, with some trees over 500 years old.

* Unique for its weeping habit.

Small amounts are used for dimension stock, veneer, and containers, but the main use of sugarberry wood is for furniture. * Celtis laevigata is a medium-sized tree native to North America.

Conservation Plant Characteristics Acer saccharum Marsh. * A species of maple native to the hardwood forests of northeastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to southern Ontario, and south to Georgia and Texas.

* Recently, Paulownia has received a great deal of interest for its environmental properties and has been put forward as a potential solution to the global deforestation problem which lies at the heart of the climate change debate.

* Unlike most species of pine. * Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m,...

* 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. * Pinus wallichiana is a pine native to the Himalaya , Karakoram and Hindu Kush mountains, from eastern...

* Over most of its range, red maple is adaptable to a very wide range of site conditions. * One of the most common and widespread deciduous trees of eastern North America * A decidious Tree growing to 30 m.

* The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Hedera helix for cough, bronchitis. * The leaves are alternate, 50–100 mm long, with a 15–20 mm petiole ; they are of two types, with palmately five-lobed juvenile...

However, there are numerous ones estimated between 200 and 250 years old and there are a couple over 250. * It is a large deciduous tree growing to 20–35 m (exceptionally to 46 m) tall with a trunk up to 2 m (exceptionally to 3.5 m) diameter, with a...

The Poinciana is also the national flower of St. Kitts and Nevis. * 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.

Can grow 80-100' tall. Very fast growing 3-6' per year with buttery-yellow fall coloring. 1 1/2 - 2' trees. Wonderfully versatile, it is tolerant of poor soil conditions, salt, ice, snow and extreme temperatures.

* Used as a rootstock for P. * This makes a beautiful flowering tree all on its own even though it is primarily grown as an extremely cold hardy rootstock for grafting edible pear varieties.

* In Europe it is often planted alongside streets and in parks, especially in large cities, because it tolerates pollution well. * This is a quick-growing, extremely tough, loose, open tree with compound leaves which drop in pieces, creating little debris.

* A very ornamental plant, it is hardy to about -15°c. Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. * Shrubs evergreen, 1–3 m tall. Petiole 4–8 mm, initially densely yellow tomentose, subglabrous when old; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–5...