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* Kalmia latifolia , commonly called Mountain-laurel or Spoonwood , is a species flowering plant in the blueberry family, Ericaceae , that is native to the eastern United States . Plants are very cold-hardy, tolerating temperatures down to about -30°c.

Japonica which has pendulous flower clusters. * Native to primarily North and South Carolina, but also found in Virginia and Georgia. * Fairly dense and bushy, especially when young.

* Persea borbonia is a species of plant in the Lauraceae family, with several common names including redbay, tisswood, scrubbay, shorebay, and swampbay. It weighs 40lb per cubic foot.

* Typical flora associates are such plants as the western sword fern (Polystichum munitum), coastal woodfern (Dryopteris arguta), California snowberry (Symphoricarpos mollis), common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus), and thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus).

British History Online: Farm Gardening and Market Gardening Don G. Huxley, A., ed. 'The genus Rhododendron : its classification and synonymy.' (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: Edinburgh) ISBN 1 872291 66 X James Cullen.

* A very popular curiosity plant. The edges of the lobes are fringed by stiff hair-like protrusions or cilia, which mesh together and prevent large prey from escaping. * The trapping mechanism is so specialized that it can distinguish between living prey...

It is a flowering shrub or a small tree native to Japan , Korea and China . It is called 'tsubaki oil'. * The Japanese Camellia ( Camellia japonica ) is one of the best known species of Camellia .

Fruits are attractive to wildlife. * Historically, Sambucus racemosa (native to Europe and Asia) was commonly known as European red elder and the very similar Sambucus pubens also known as S.

* Yellow-green spiny leaves; red fruit almost 1/2" wide, lasting into winter; of pyramidal habit in youth, later more open, with horizontal branches, sometimes contorted; must have male and female to get fruit; parent of many varied cultivars; native...

Typically grows 20-30' tall. Bell-shaped, fragrant, white flowers with showy yellow stamens appear in pendulous, terminal racemes (to 8" long) in May-June (somewhat late for trees).

Rhododendron schilippenbachii, a popular species for bonsai, these flowering shrubs are beautiful bonsai. * Rhododendron schlippenbachii ( Royal Azalea ) is a species of Rhododendron native to the Korean Peninsula and adjacent regions of Manchuria ( Liaoning...

* The fruits are readily eaten by birds, but are not recommended for human consumption. * The dried leaves have been used for smoking as an alternative to tobacco. * A good ground-cover for steep sandy banks in a sunny position or in light shade.

* The plants tolerate clipping and make an attractive informal hedge. * An oval shrub with pleasing dark green leaves and very fragrant white flowers in upright terminal racemes in late summer; does well in heavy shade; yellow or golden brown fall color;...

The tree generally reaches heights of about 31 metres (100 feet), but exceptional trees have been recorded up to 53 metres (173 feet). * This is a grand, tall, graceful conifer with shiny dark green foliage.

The leaves are evergreen , 6-18 cm long and 2-5 cm broad. Bulgaria east to Georgia. The flowers are 3.5-5 cm diameter, violet-purple, often with small greenish-yellow spots or streaks.

It is cultivated as an ornamental tree. * Halesia tetraptera, commonly known as the common silverbell is a species in the family Styracaceae, native to the southeastern United States.

* The acorns are eaten by jays, pigeons, and squirrels . * Quercus acutissima lives in deciduous forests at altitudes of up to 2,200 metres (7,200 ft) in South Asia and South East Asia.

* Flowering is in autumn, or in winter in cooler areas; the inflorescences are flower spikes 7–22 cm (3–10 in) high and 5 cm (2 in) broad or so. With time and the production of more cones with seed-containing follicles, however, plants can store up...

Flowers (to 1.5" long) are in trusses of 5-9 flowers each and have a pleasant, clove-like fragrance. An upright, rounded shrub which typically grows 4-8' tall (less frequently to 15' tall) and as wide.

Miconioides is a deciduous large shrub or small tree, typically growing to a height of between 4 and 8 m. Miconioides produces large shows of small fragrant white blooms attractive to butterflies, the flowers five-petalled, < 13 mm across.

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

* 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 .

* Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added. * Cliftonia monophylla ( Buck-wheat tree , Buckwheat tree , Titi ) is a tree native to the United States .

* Distinguishing features of this species are crenate leaf margins and fruiting pedicels that are 2–8 mm long. Leaves are obovate , simple, alternating, deciduous , and grow to 2.5-7.5 cm long.

* Actaea racemosa (black cohosh, black bugbane, black snakeroot, fairy candle; syn. * Cohosh comes from an Algonquin word meaning rough in reference to the appearance of plant rhizomes.

* Ilex collina is a species of holly known by the common name longstalk holly. The leaves are oval with pointed tips and serrated edges. * A small deciduous tree with gray bark and spreading branches; 1/4" bright red fruit; native to West Virginia and...

The knots contain so much resin that they resist rot. This is used by violinists on their bows and also in making sealing wax, varnish etc. Rosin is the substance left after turpentine is removed.