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* This is considered a noxious weed in some areas. * A yellow dye is obtained from the whole plant. A tea made from the plant has been used as an insecticide. It has also been introduced and is now common in North America .

Used in Mexico for washing clothes. The fruit can be dried and stored for later use. It splits easily into thin strips and is often used in basket making. * A soap is obtained from the fruit by rubbing the fruit in water.

It also occurs south into northern Baja California in Mexico . The dark-green leaves are usually small, 2.5-7 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, thick and often spiny-toothed, particularly on young trees.

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...

It grows at moderate altitudes of 1,300-2,600 m, on dry soils, often together with Pinus monophylla . * A wax on the fruit is obtained by simmering the fruit in hot water and skimming off the wax as it rises to the surface.

* This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most formidably armed of temperate trees. * This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on...

* A good ground cover plant, succeeding in the heavy shade of trees and in dry shade. Very vigorous, it can swamp out small plants. For the densest cover plants should be cut to ground level each April.

Also useful for stabilizing embankments. Also tolerates some drought. Blooms on new growth. * Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Prune in early spring.

It has sharply-toothed, lance-shaped green leaves and bears large, showy, bright golden yellow trumpet-shaped flowers . The plant produces pods containing yellow seeds with papery wings.

The leaves are scale-like, highly glandular, resinous and aromatic, 2-5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. * This cypress was discovered in 1907 by Mrs. Polkinghorn and to visit the grove she described (Abrams 1919).

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...

Isolated populations exist in Alabama, Southern Ontario, and small sections of the Appalachian Mountains. It is typically found over calcareous substrates such as limestone , growing on limestone slopes and in moist valley soils, at elevations of 120–600...

* Good for seashore planting; native to Mediterranean region. * Thrives in a light well-drained sandy or gravelly loam. * It is widely planted for timber in its native area, being one of the most important trees in forestry in Algeria and Morocco.

* Quercus turbinella is a species of oak known by the common names Sonoran scrub oak and shrub live oak . It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado , Rio Grande New Mexico...

* It is occasionally seen on the California coast where it is an introduced species and landscaping escapee. * Native to the Mediterranean region, statice (also commonly called notchleaf status) is noted for producing clusters of papery, funnel-shaped...

* A deciduous Tree growing to 15 m, at a fast rate. * A maple native to much of Europe , north to southern England (where it is the only native maple), Denmark , Poland and Belarus , and also southwest Asia from Turkey to the Caucasus , and north Africa...

This varient will grow to 8 feet tall. It is a monotypic genus, with this species as its only member. It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green;...

It is native to southern Europe . * A hardy perennial with gray or blue-gray rather frilly leaves, extremely fragrant (although many dislike the pungent scent); woody base; causes dermatitis in some people, for dry sunny places; also used medicinally...

The seed can be slow to germinate. * The blue flowers and on occasion white flowers are bonnet shaped. * The plant is short lived but self sows freely producing a good quantity of seed each year.

* Aquilegia caerulea is a species of Aquilegia flower native to the Rocky Mountains from Montana south to New Mexico and west to Idaho and Arizona . * Aquilegia caerulea is the state flower of Colorado.

Extremely adaptable and common in the sandy or clay-sand ridges of Georgia. Useful in coastal landscapes, it adds texture and unique architecture to large scale plantings. * A vanillin flavouring is obtained as a by-product of other resins that are released...

The dense mass was "pig tight, horse high and bull strong." The name Hedge Apple derives from this application. * Before the invention of barbed wire in the 1880's, the Osage Orange was planted in hedges to contain farm animals.

It is used for construction, firewood, and railroad ties. * In South Africa and Queensland, Australia there are big extensions of this tree planted. * Unlike virtually all members of this genus, trees of this species can be coppiced.

* A quick-growing, not to say rampant vine; can be pruned as a shrub; usually grown on a trellis for commercial production of the hops used in beer making; hops are produced on female plants; native to Eurasia, has escaped in the U.S.

Mediterranean and Asia Minor. * Sun- and drought-tolerant. * This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers.

It is native to interior western North America , in the U.S. states of Arizona , California , Colorado , Nevada , New Mexico , Utah , and Wyoming , growing in mountains at 1600–3000 m altitude.

* Quercus turbinella is a species of oak known by the common names Sonoran scrub oak and shrub live oak . It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado , Rio Grande New Mexico...