Honey Bee Food Edible Fruit Or Nut Plant For Sale In Michigan

The deciduous leaves are each made up of several widely-spaced sharp-toothed leaflets up to 5 centimeters long. * An infusion of the leaves has been used as a spring tonic. * 1 3/4" pink or, less commonly, white flowers, in summer; round hips; native...

They also generally display a greater resistance to disease and insects, especially to the squash vine borer. It includes cultivars of squash and pumpkin. * Sow seed early to mid spring in a greenhouse in a rich soil.

The species is endemic to eastern Europe: Ukraine, Croatia, Greece (including Crete, Sicily, Macedonia, Montenegro; Western Asia: Cyprus, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, Turkey; and the Caucasus region: Azerbaijan.

* 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 .

* The fruit is occasionally eaten raw but more often used in preserves. * Water Tupelo often occurs in pure stands. Resents root disturbance. The seed is mainly distributed by water.

* The fruit can be eaten raw, cooked in pies, cakes etc or fermented into cider. * The leaves contain up to 2.4% of an antibacterial substance called 'phloretin'.This inhibits the growth of a number of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria in as low...

The species is endemic to eastern Europe: Ukraine, Croatia, Greece (including Crete, Sicily, Macedonia, Montenegro; Western Asia: Cyprus, northwestern Iran, northern Iraq, Turkey; and the Caucasus region: Azerbaijan.

Its range extends east to the Rocky Mountains and discontinuously to the Great Lakes Region. * Rubus parviflorus is native to western North America from Alaska south as far as California, New Mexico, Chihuahua, and San Luis Potosi.

* Vaccinium arboreum ( Sparkleberry or Farkleberry ) is a species of Vaccinium native to the southeastern United States , from southern Virginia west to southeastern Missouri , and south to Florida and eastern Texas .

* 2" pinkish-purple flowers; scarlet hips to 1/2"; red branches; spreads into dense thickets by suckering from roots. * The fruit contains about 2.8% dry weight vitamin C.

Fresh berries were eaten in large quantities, or used for fish bait because of the slight resemblance to salmon eggs. * Vaccinium parvifolium is cultivated in the specialty horticulture trade with limited availability as an ornamental plant: for natural...

* Maypops is a valuable sedative and tranquillising herb with a long history of use in North America. The Cherokee in the Tennessee area called it ocoee ; the Ocoee River and valley are named after this plant, which is the Tennessee State Wildflower .

* Easily grown in a good well-drained loamy soil in sun or semi-shade[ This has led to their being very useful as natural dyes. * Black raspberries are high in anthocyanins. Anthocyanins are also antioxidants, so there is interest in black raspberries...

* During his 1799–1804 travels in the Americas, Alexander von Humboldt encountered a giant saman tree near Maracay, Venezuela. Its range extends from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil, but it has been widely introduced to South and Southeast Asia, as...

* An infusion of the wood is used to treat sore or weak eyes. It is also known by common names including cudrang , mandarin melon berry , silkworm thorn , zhe or che ( pinyin : zhe ), and Chinese mulberry (but not to be confused with Morus australis also...

* White flowers in May in loose clusters to 4", followed by 1/2" brown fruits, edible when overripe, formerly used in medicine; leaves resemble maple leaves; round, sometimes irregular crown; native to Europe, North Africa, Asia Minor.

* A multistemmed shrub, it is endemic to northwestern North America, from the Pacific coast of Alaska, to the mountains of Washington, Oregon and northern California and eastward to parts of Idaho and western Alberta and Montana.

* The growing plant is a good companion for strawberries, tomatoes, courgettes and most other plants. They are also added whole as a flavouring to various drinks such as Pimms and wine-based drinks.

The flowers are also used in the treatment of an enlarged prostate gland. Sweet and gelatinous. * Fig opuntia is grown primarily as a fruit crop, but also for the vegetable nopales and other uses.

* Rubus odoratus ( Purple-flowering Raspberry , Flowering Raspberry , or Virginia raspberry ) is a species of Rubus , native to eastern North America , from Nova Scotia west to Ontario , and south to Georgia and Alabama .

It is the type species of the subgenus Padus with flowers in racemes , which are hermaphroditic and pollinated by bees and flies; it is a deciduous small tree or large shrub 8–16 m tall.

They really are perfect hearts! * The fruit is a nut , produced in bunches of 4-10 together; the nut is spherical, 3-5 cm long and broad, surrounded by a green husk before maturity in mid autumn.

* The leaves are used in the treatment of fevers. It is being investigated as a food that is capable of reducing the incidence of cancer and also as a means of halting or reversing the growth of cancers.

The leaves are alternate, palmately five-lobed like a spread hand (sometimes three or seven lobes), 10–18 cm long and wide. Be careful that root suckers do not take over from the grafted plant.

* This shrubby pine ranges from 1–3 m in height, exceptionally up to 5 m, but may have individual branches that extend farther along the ground in length. A reasonable size, the seed is up to 10mm x 7mm.

* It is ripe in November/December and is about 15mm in diameter. * For those people with sensitive taste buds, this is a fruit that can be enjoyed when eaten in moderate quantities.

Esteemed as a great delicacy, the oil-rich seed has a slightly resinous flavour. * The seed can be eaten raw or cooked. Wallichiana; native to China, Burma, Taiwan, Korea. Up to 13mm x 11mm.