Flowering Tree Wildlife Food For Sale In Nebraska

* An intense brown dye is obtained by boiling the bark. * This species is the floral emblem of British Columbia. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree , reaching 10-25 m tall.

* It has sometimes been placed in a separate genus of its own as Micromeles alnifolia, differing from other whitebeams in the deciduous sepals on the fruit (persistent in other whitebeams), but genetic evidence places it close to Sorbus aria.

* An intense brown dye is obtained by boiling the bark. * This species is the floral emblem of British Columbia. It is a small to medium-sized deciduous tree , reaching 10-25 m tall.

Bark: Light gray, smooth, surface scaly. It resembles the European Mountain-ash, Sorbus aucuparia . A tea from the berries is antiscorbutic and astringent. It is also used in homeopathic remedies.

* Prefers a deep moisture-retentive loam in a sunny sheltered position, requiring a good summer for best development. * Light green, compound leaves; of slender cylindrical form; native to eastern U.S. from Quebec to Florida; of tall, upright habit.

* A good seed crop occurs only about every 4–5 years. * The very large showy white flowers and large-leaved, coarse-textured foliage make this an attractive ornamental tree. * The fruit is eaten by wildlife, helping disperse the seeds.

* Seedling trees take from 5 - 8 years before they start bearing fruit, though grafted trees will often flower heavily in their third year. * The fruit can be used in making pies, preserves, etc, and can also be dried for later use.

And as a flavouring for sloe gin and other liqueurs. * The fruit is usually used in jellies, syrups, conserves etc. * Prunus spinosa ( blackthorn or sloe ) is a species of Prunus native to Europe , western Asia , and locally in northwest Africa .

* The fruit is excellent for making jellies, it can also be dried for later use. It is "the most wide-ranging hawthorn in North America" , native to much of southern Canada, and the United States as far south as Arizona , New Mexico , Kansas , Missouri...

Plants in this genus are notably resistant to honey fungus. Prick out the seedlings of cold-frame sown seeds into individual pots as soon as they are large enough to handle and grow the plants on for their first winter in a greenhouse, planting out in...

* The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. * A very ornamental plant, the fruit is a good wildlife food source, especially for birds. * An easily grown plant, it succeeds in most fertile soils, preferring a moisture retentive well-drained loamy soil.

* Grows like mad; tolerant of cities and poor soil; tends to sucker; sometimes used as a street tree; 8" leaves yellow-green in fall; red fruit. * The Paper Mulberry ( Broussonetia papyrifera , syn.

* An infusion of the branches has been given to young children with bed-wetting problems. * A shrubby species with compound leaves, white flowers, and orange to scarlet 1/4" round fruit; native to the Rocky Mountains, California to British Columbia.

* The tree was first discovered in 1849 at Stone Mountain, Georgia, where several specimens grow along the popular walk-up trail. * It has a very restricted range in the southern Appalachian Mountains and outlying monadnocks , mainly in northern Georgia.

* It has sometimes been placed in a separate genus of its own as Micromeles alnifolia, differing from other whitebeams in the deciduous sepals on the fruit (persistent in other whitebeams), but genetic evidence places it close to Sorbus aria.

* A decoction of the peeled stems has been drunk in the treatment of backaches. However, a useful distinguishing feature of this species is its shiny, sticky buds. * Sorbus decora, commonly known as the showy mountain-ash or "dogberry" is a deciduous...

* A shrub with 1/4" white flowers followed by 1/4" round scarlet fruit; resembles S. Cascadensis; compound leaves; native to California * The individual leaflets are toothed almost from base to apex.

* Quercus marilandica ( Blackjack oak ) is a small oak , one of the red oak group Quercus sect. * The Blackjack oak grows in poor, thin, dry, rocky or sandy soils where few other woody plants can thrive, usually on low ground, from sea level up to 900...

* It is popular as an ornamental landscaping tree and as a Christmas Tree. Thus it can be used for making tubs for storing food items. They are recommended to be grown only in temperate regions of the world.

Young branches reddish, terete, sparsely pubescent with grayish white trichomes; old branches light yellow, glabrous, with or without whitish elliptic lenticels. * Shrubs or small trees, 1–6 m tall.

* A valuable timber, it weighs 26lb per cubic foot and is much used for interior finishes, furniture, construction and plywood. It prefers deep, rich, and rather moist soil; it is common, though not abundant, nor is it solitary.

It is hardy to zone 7. * Lithocarpus densiflorus , commonly known as the Tanoak or Tanbark-oak , is an evergreen tree in the beech family Fagaceae , native to the western United States , in California as far south as the Transverse Ranges and north to...

The leaves are stiff, sharp and needle-like, 15–25 mm long, flattened in cross-section, dark glaucous blue-green above with two or three thin lines of stomata , and blue-white below with two dense bands of stomata.The cones are pendulous, slender cylindrical,...

The dried flower stems repel insects and rodents. * A decoction of the leaves, when watered on plants, repels caterpillars. * A shrub or small tree with bright green compound leaves; yellow-white flowers in 4-6" flat-topped clusters, followed by quantities...

* The tree was first discovered in 1849 at Stone Mountain, Georgia, where several specimens grow along the popular walk-up trail. * It has a very restricted range in the southern Appalachian Mountains and outlying monadnocks , mainly in northern Georgia.

* Plants are very shade tolerant but growth is slower in dense shade. It is sometimes known as a Concolor fir. * The Sierra Nevada White Fir sources have greener needles and are not as cold hardy or heat tolerant as the inland strains.

* With its white flowers it is beloved of bees in May and children in fall for the mahogany nuts. * It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in September. * It is native to Greece and Albania.