Medicinal Plant Seeds For Sale In Huntsville

Last updated: 09-Mar-2004 * The fruit and its capsule are antiasthmatic, antiseptic, antitussive and expectorant. * Aristolochic acid can also be used in the treatment of acute and serious infections such as TB, hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and infantile...

Young plants are less hardy, and can be damaged by only ?8 °C (17.6 °F). The ashes from the silky hairs of the plant are haemostatic. * Trachycarpus fortunei is cultivated as an ornamental plant for use in gardens and parks.

The leaves are heart shaped and the flowers are pale yellow and tubular in form. It is an aromatic tonic herb that stimulates the uterus, reduces inflammation, controls bacterial infections and promotes healing.

* Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe . In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu".

* Their seeds have a thick and durable seed coat which allows them to survive lengthy periods of immersion in seawater. * Entada rheedii, commonly known as the African dream herb or snuff box sea bean, and as the cacoon vine in Jamaica, is a large woody...

* A confection made from the root since ancient Egyptian time evolved into today's marshmallow treat. * Marsh mallow is a very useful household medicinal herb. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Althaea...

* Elecampane , also called Horse-heal ( Inula helenium ) or Marchalan (in Welsh ), is a perennial composite plant common in many parts of Great Britain , and ranges throughout central and Southern Europe , and in Asia as far eastwards as the Himalayas...

* Veratrum nigrum ( Black Hellebore ) is a medicinal plant and poisonous plant native to Asia and Europe . In China, it, and other false hellebore species are collectively called "li lu".

* The seeds have been used as beads. * The pulverized root is used as a poultice for headaches. It is used as a bitter tonic for alleviating stomach troubles, kidney ailments, rheumatism, chills, fevers etc.

Spiraea chinensis Maximowicz, Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Zhong hua xiu xian ju Shrubs 1.5–3 m tall. Branchlets arched, red-brown and yellow tomentose initially, black-brown and glabrous when old; buds ovoid, 2–5 mm, with several scales, pubescent,...

Note that this effect is only visible on the "head" or flower of the plant. The dried roasted roots are ground into apowder and are used for making coffee. * A teaspoon of crushed seeds has long been used as a form of natural birth control; its use for...

* An excrescence produced on the leaf by an insect Melaphis chinensis or M. Paitan is antiseptic, astringent and haemostatic. It is used in the treatment of persistent cough with blood, chronic diarrhoea, spontaneous sweating, night sweats, bloody stool,...

* Alangium platanifolium is a deciduous Shrub growing to 3 m (9ft) by 2 m (6ft). It is hardy to zone 8. It is in flower from Jun to July. The flowers are hermaphrodite (have both male and female organs) * The root is used in the treatment of rheumatism...

* Raspberry fruit may protect the liver. * The plant from which cultivated red raspberries were derived. * Polyphenolic compounds from raspberry seeds are efficient antioxidants. * A purple to dull blue dye is obtained from the fruit.

* Ginseng has a history of herbal use going back over 5,000 years. * It has gained an almost magical reputation for being able to promote health, general body vigour and also to prolong life.

* The flower heads are from ¾ to 3 inches (2 to 7.6 cm) wide with pale rose-purple or nearly white colored petals. Plants normally grow with one unbranched stem in the wild, but often produce multi-stemmed clumps in gardens.

S.-Peterburgsk. * Aristolochia manshuriensis Komarov, Trudy Imp. Guan mu tong Hocquartia manshuriensis (Komarov) Nakai; Isotrema manshuriense (Komarov) H.

The underside of each leaf has two broad yellow stripes and is densely covered with minute projections. The tree is up to 14 m (46 ft) tall and wide and bushy when cultivated. The leaves are up to 4 centimeters (11?2 inches) long—broader than those...

Viminalis is widely distributed in the cooler areas of Australia where the leaves are the favoured food of Koalas. * Timber is generally pale pink to pinkish brown in colour, often with distinctive light grey streaks.

They are also used to give colour and flavour to glutinous-rice dumplings (Mochi). Aromatic and somewhat bitter. Their addition to the diet aids the digestion and so they are often used in small quantities as a flavouring, especially with fatty foods.

* Chinese pine is a conical tree that will grow to 50-70' tall in its native habitat, but is usually seen much smaller in cultivation. Needles (to 6” long) in bundles of two are an attractive dark green.

* Trees have extensive root systems and are sometimes planted on the banks of streams in order to prevent erosion.

* The root can be eaten cooked. The plants tend to be evergreen in the more southern United States. It is native to central and eastern portions of the United States, where it is a common and conspicuous part of the forest vegetation.

Not all authorities accept it as distinct, with the Flora Europaea treating it as a synonym of Rosa canina . Canina, differing in having smaller prickles, shorter pedicels, and more persistant sepals; native to Europe and Western Asia.

* Ephedra nevadensis ( Nevada ephedra ) is a species of Ephedra native to dry areas of western North America. * A delicious tea is made by steeping the green or dried twigs inboiling water until they turn an amber or pink colour.

The seed floss can be used as an insulation in shoes etc. A cold infusion of the plant can be used as a lotion on swollen knees and ankles. * A slender-stemmed, sometimes creeping, semi-woody perennial that may attain a length of 10-12 ft.

* Nice shiny dark green leaves to 3"; large shrub, small tree; quarter-inch bright red fruit in fall; best of the hardy evergreen hollies, Dirr says; may not do well in hot regions; native to Japan and China.