Honey Bee Food Medicinal Plant For Sale In San Jose

It is native to Europe but has been introduced elsewhere, such as the western and eastern parts of the United States. * Adonis aestivalis ( Summer pheasant's-eye ) is a medicinal and ornamental plant .

* It is a fairly good source of essential fatty acids, which is fairly unusual for a fruit. * White or pink flowers to 2 1/2"; pear-shaped 1/3-2/3" hips, shiny red or red-orange; suckers to form thickets; native to woods, dunes, and prairies from Nova...

The five large petals are shaped either obovate or obcordate, 3 cm (1.4 in) long and 2.5 cm (1 in) wide. * Rosa blanda grows naturally in meadows, prairies and fields occurs on dry hillsides, roadsides, fence rows, in either sandy or rocky soil.

In the tropics, it grows up to an altitude of 1,200 metres (3,900 ft). * Senna alata (also known as Cassia alata) is often called the ringworm bush because of its very effective fungicidal properties, for treating ringworm and other fungal infections...

Petiole 1.5-3 cm, strong; leaf blade ovate to orbicular, 7-18 × 5-14 cm, leathery, light green, glabrous, base cuneate, margin crenate, apex acute to shortly acuminate; secondary veins 5-7 pairs, obviously prominent on adaxial surface.

* A perennial mint with lemon-scented foliage and clusters of small white flowers in whorls in the leaf axils; the leaves are used in cooking--teas, soups--toilet water, soaps, and medicine; sun or part shade, grows well in dry sites; native to southern...

* During World War II in the United States Rosa canina was planted in victory gardens. * The dog rose was the stylized rose of medieval European heraldry, and is still used today. The syrup is used as a nutritional supplement, especially for babies.

Their flowers are red, yellow or orange and have 5–30 petals. * The species grow to 10–40 centimetres (3.9–15.7 in) in height, with feathery, finely divided leaves. Annua), has flowers with bright red petals.

* It inhabits prairies , plains, roadsides, and disturbed areas from southern Canada through most of the United States to northern Mexico . * A pleasant tasting tea is made from the leaves and flower heads.

The flowers are white, borne in fall. If given support, it will climb rapidly with the aid of tendrilous leaf petioles to 20-25' in length. It is hardy to zone 6. It is a vigorous, deciduous, twining vine with an extremely rampant growth habit.

* The red anthocyanin constituent of the flowers is used as a litmus. * The plants are easily grown from seed, and readily self-seed. * A nutritious starch is obtained from the root.

* 1" flowers in large or small clusters. * A low shrub found on dry slopes and prairies. * The fruit 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.

Wood - hard, heavy, strong, close grained. * A lovely, useful plant with white or gray bark, shiny dark green leaves, translucent quarter-inch scarlet fruit in large quantities; takes well to pruning, adaptable regarding soil; "very picturesquefruit...

Flabellata pumila. * The name of this species is based on the cultivated form, the true wild form is A. * Plants seem to be immune to the predations of rabbits. * Succeeds in ordinary garden soil, preferring a moist but not wet soil and a sunny position.

* A tree to 60 ft. Long, dark-green leaves are velvety beneath. * A deciduous Tree growing to 15 m (49ft 3in). Diameter, red fruits that are pleasantly flavored and used as a substitute for limes.

* For those people with sensitive taste buds, this is a fruit that can be enjoyed when eaten in moderate quantities. * The fruit itself has the texture of a lush tropical fruit and has a delicate pleasant flavour.

* Antonovka is a group of late-fall or early-winter apple cultivars with a strong acid flavor. * The fruit can be eaten raw, cooked in pies, cakes etc or fermented into cider. * Ivan Bunin's early short story, Antonovka Apples (1900), is a sort of ode...

Young twigs are noticeably yellow and stand out in winter. The leaves are gathered when the plant is in full bloom and are dried in the shade. Thick, woody, red roots go deep and help plant withstand droughty conditions, but make established shrubs difficult...

Most culinary references to the "prickly pear" are referring to this species. Requires warmth and plenty of sun. It is thought probably to have originated in Mexico. Sweet and gelatinous.

* This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China.

* The flowers are considered to be one of the best bee plants in Japan. * Bark of mature trees is fissured, prominently ridged and pale gray-brown. * Catalpa ovata, the yellow catalpa or Chinese catalpa , is a pod-bearing tree native to China.

Wood - hard, heavy, strong, close grained. * A lovely, useful plant with white or gray bark, shiny dark green leaves, translucent quarter-inch scarlet fruit in large quantities; takes well to pruning, adaptable regarding soil; "very picturesquefruit...

* It is a fairly good source of essential fatty acids, which is fairly unusual for a fruit. * White or pink flowers to 2 1/2"; pear-shaped 1/3-2/3" hips, shiny red or red-orange; suckers to form thickets; native to woods, dunes, and prairies from Nova...

This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico . It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant.

* Thistley plants for full sun and poor dry soil; the half-inch flower heads, also like thistles, can be a fine metallic blue or blue purple; flowers in mid to late summer; in rich soil the plants grow too fast and need staking; may make a big clump of...

The flowers are pink, borne in summer. * Rosa palustris is a shrub with alternate, pinnately compound leaves , on thorny stems.

* Fruit - raw or cooked. * Seed - this is best sown as soon as it is ripe in the autumn in a cold frame, some of the seed will germinate in the spring, though most will probably take another year.