Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant Seeds For Sale In Des Moines

* The fruit can be made into jams and preserves.

* The fruit is juicy with a very good flavour. * Rubus spectabilis ( Salmonberry ) is a species of Rubus native to the west coast of North America from west central Alaska to California .

There is a local disjunct population in Mexico as well. Frangula caroliniana ), the Carolina Buckthorn , is an upright shrub or small tree native to the Southeastern United States .

Will trail along the ground or can be trained up a trellis. * Young seedpods - cooked for a few minutes. * This tropical legume can be grown as an annual in the north. It does well in humid tropics with high rainfall.

* Has light gray bark; rounded crown; often used in bonsai; an important native element of Japanese forests. It is native to Japan where it is widespread and often one of the dominant trees of Japan's deciduous forests.

* Succeeds in most reasonably good soils in an open sunny position. It is widespread in British Columbia. Seedlings are very slow to put on top-growth for their first year or two, but they are busy building up a good root system.

It is an excellent tonic and restorative, helping in stressful times and increasing zest for life. The fruit is antitussive, aphrodisiac, hepatic, astringent, cardiotonic, cholagogue, expectorant, hypotensive, lenitive, nervine, pectoral, sedative, stimulant...

It is a food that can easily be eaten in quantity and can be used as a staple food in the diet. Because of the great age of this species it is sometimes described as a living fossil.

* The dried young leaves are used as a tea substitute. The fruit is 7 - 13cm long. The flavour can be enhanced by the addition of a little lemon juice. The scientific name, akebia, is a Latinization of the Japanese name for species Akebia quinata: akebi...

* The fruit can be used for jams and preserves. * Western herbalists consider it a 'food for the heart', it increases the blood flow to the heart muscles and restores normal heart beat.

* The seed are edible raw or cooked. The seeds are often added to ice cream, cakes, puddings etc. It makes a delicious snack and can also be used as a staple food. * The (Italian) Stone Pine (or Umbrella Pine ) ( Pinus pinea ; family Pinaceae ) is a species...

* The dog rose was the stylized rose of medieval European heraldry, and is still used today. * Used as understock for hybrid tea roses. * The plant is high in certain antioxidants.

* The fruit is juicy with a very good flavour. * Rubus spectabilis ( Salmonberry ) is a species of Rubus native to the west coast of North America from west central Alaska to California .

Paint, varnish, lubricating oil, leather dressings, furniture polish, insecticides, and nitroglycerin are made from peanut oil. Soap is made from saponified oil, and many cosmetics contain peanut oil and its derivatives.

* Produces an abundance of long yellow sweet peppers from mid summer until frost.

* 2" fragrant rosy-purple flowers, even in full shade, throughout the summer; red fruit, edible but not tasty; thornless; spreads via suckers; used in Europe as an ornamental; native from southeast Canada to Georgia and Tennessee, in moist woods especially...

* The seed can be eaten raw or cooked. The seed ripens in mid to late autumn and will probably need to be protected from squirrels. The seed, which has a hard shell, is of relatively good flavour.

* Young shoots - harvested as they emerge in the spring, then peeled and eaten raw or cooked like asparagus. While the crown is perennial, the canes are biennial, growing vegetatively one year, flowering and fruiting the second, and then dying.

Germination usually takes place quickly and freely. It is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 40–60 cm tall, with spirally arranged leaves 6–12 cm long and 4–9 cm broad. The flowers are white, with a five-lobed corolla 10–15 mm across, with...

It is a small deciduous tree , growing 5–8 m tall and 4–6 m wide, related to apples and pears , and like them has a pome fruit , which is bright golden yellow when mature, pear-shaped, 7–12 cm long and 6–9 cm broad.

An edible oil is obtained from the seed. Very popular in America, the seed is sweet and well-flavoured with a thin shell. The seed can be dried and ground into a powder which is added to cereals and used in making bread, pies etc.

* It is very acceptable raw and has a superior flavour to sweet chestnuts (C. * It grows best on well-drained soils in full sun or partial shade. * It is a spreading shrub or small tree, reaching 2–8 m in height at maturity.

Hicoria floridana) the scrub hickory, is a tree native to the southeastern United States, where it is endemic in central Florida. The seed is up to 3cm long. * Carya floridana (syn.

Oval to round fruit with red sweet flesh and small seeds, maturing in 85 days. * Crimson Sweet is a heirloom variety that has been around a long time. * It was an All American winner in 1964.

* The bush grows to a maximum height of 13 feet (4 m ), and the prickles are sparse to scattered along the stalks.

They make a very good perennial substitute for lettuce in a salad, producing fresh leaves from spring until the middle of summer, or until the autumn from spring germinating plants.

They are also medicinal. * 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...