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* Rhododendron catawbiense ( Catawba Rhododendron ) is a species of Rhododendron native to the eastern United States , growing mainly in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia south to northern Alabama .

The bright red, acidic berries were used extensively for food throughout the year. Dried berries were stewed and made into sauces, or mixed with salmon roe and oil to eat at winter feasts.

* A beautiful yellow dye is obtained from the flowers. A good black dye is obtained from the root if it is mixed with iron sulphate. It is brown otherwise. The root is a source of tannin and has been used in making ink.

* Like other members of the genus Sarracenia, the Sweet pitcher plant traps insects using a rolled leaf, which in this species is generally smaller and narrower than most species, usually not exceeding 65 cm.

* Sheep laurel is a very poisonous narcotic plant the leaves of which were at one time used by some native North American Indian tribes in order to commit suicide. * A very ornamental and variable plant.

* Gardenia jasminoides is a shrub with greyish bark and dark green shiny evergreen leaves with prominent veins. * Evidence of Gardenia jasminoides in cultivation in China dates to the Song Dynasty (960-1279 AD), where both wild and double-flowered forms...

* Besides fresh consumption, the fruits may be dried, canned, soaked in baijiu (Chinese liquor), or fermented into alcoholic beverages. * Native to east Asia. * A most unusual bayberry, a small tree with narrow 5" leaves and 1" deep reddish-purple berries,...

* Sarracenia leucophylla , also known as the white pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . The species is highly variable with respect to its pitchers, with plants in some localities reaching almost 1 metre in height, while in...

* Sarracenia minor , also known as the Hooded pitcher plant , is a carnivorous plant in the genus Sarracenia . Like all the Sarracenia , it is native to the New World .

* Rhododendron catawbiense ( Catawba Rhododendron ) is a species of Rhododendron native to the eastern United States , growing mainly in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia south to northern Alabama .

In vernacular use, it is most often known asCunninghamia, but is also sometimes called "China-fir" (though it is not a fir). * An evergreen native to China, where it is a widely used timber tree; the wood resists rot; of pyramidal habit with slightly...

* 1/2-1" yellow-green trumpet-shaped flowers backed by white, pink, or rose sepals, "beautiful for flower effect" (Dirr); dark green simple 4-8" leaves; likes moist acid soil; native to southeast U.S. * In earlier days, malaria and other fevers were treated...

Leaves are sclerophyllous, simple, alternate, and oblong (10 to 30 cm long, 5 to 8 cm wide). Maximum is an evergreen shrub growing to 4 m (13 ft), rarely 10 m (33 ft), tall. Succeeds in sun or shade, the warmer the climate the more shade a plant requires.

* Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns.

* Traditionally huckleberries were sought after and collected by many Native American tribes along the Pacific coast in the region. Not needing much sun, the plant has a wide variety of forest homes; it is often seen sprouting out of old coast redwood...

* An easily grown plant, it succeeds in any soil of good or moderate fertility, ranging from acid to shallow chalk. * This species is unusual in having alternate leaves whilst almost all other members of this genus have opposite leaves.

The drupes are green, globose round in shape and turn bright red at maturity in late summer, each fruit is 5 mm in diameter and contains typically one or two ellipsoid-ovoid shaped stones.

It is one of the species whose leaves are used for food by Koalas. * The wood is strong, hard, durable,and takes a good polish. It grows in forests near the coast on moderate to fertile soils in a protected, sunny position.

* Native to primarily North and South Carolina, but also found in Virginia and Georgia. * Fairly dense and bushy, especially when young. * Upright flower clusters separate it from P.

* The species has reddish-purple flowers; grows in marshes, ditches, and other wet places, even in shallow water; flowering in June and July; needs acid soil in cultivation; many elaborate, unusual, beautiful, and rather difficult-to-grow cultivars, in...

* Flat or bell-shaped 1 1/2" flowers in clusters of 5-7, rose, in spring before leaves; of upright habit; deciduous, with red fall color; native to North Carolina, where it grows in moist acid soil.

* The Japanese Red Pine ( Pinus densiflora ) has a home range that includes Japan , Korea , northeastern China ( Heilongjiang , Jilin , Liaoning , Shandong ) and the extreme southeast of Russia (southern Primorsky Krai ).

* Small, delicate plant forms a rounded mound, often loose and open; evergreen; 3" flowers in May, parents of this strain have flowers in variations of pink and purple; acid soil, good drainage; in the U.S. needs light shade in the North, more shade in...

* Mayo or Mayu (Sophora macrocarpa) is a small tree that inhabits the Chilean Matorral.

* Native to China, common pearlbush is a loose, upright, early-blooming, deciduous shrub with a broad rounded shape. * Although floriferous and attractive in early spring, it basically plods though the rest of the growing season as a somewhat nondescript...

* Rhododendron viscosum , commonly known as swamp azalea or clammy azalea , is a deciduous shrub which is endemic to the United States .

* The shrub blooms in spherical clusters of urn-shaped whitish manzanita flowers. * Arctostaphylos nevadensis is a species of manzanita known by the common name pinemat manzanita .