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Indian Rattlebox Crotalaria assamica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance. * They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods.
  • Germination: 98%
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Quantity: 1.87 lb
  • Height: 2-4 feet
  • Collection Locale: Hawaii
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
California
Torrance
Lead Plant, Leadplant Amorpha canescens
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

This plant can be found growing in well drained soils of prairies, bluffs, and open woodlands. * The roots can grow deeper than 4 feet (1.2m). * It has very small purple flowers which are grouped in racemes .
  • Botanical Name: Amorpha canescens clean seed
  • Species: canescens
  • Collection Locale: Colorado
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 41
  • Lot#: 040632
California
Torrance
Pygmy Peashrub Caragana pygmaea
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. A very ornamental plant, it prefers a continental climate with hot summers and cold winters.
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 44
  • Germination: 98%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 40,860
  • Common Name: Pygmy Peashrub
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
California
Torrance
Japanese Pagoda Tree Styphnolobium japonicum     - Sophora japonica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Japonicum contains the isoflavone glycoside sophoricoside. * A very ornamental and fast growing tree, it grows best in hot summers. * Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 3,027
  • Quantity: 9.65 lb
  • Height: 40-60 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Family: Leguminosae
  • Purity: 99%
California
Torrance
Southern Wax Myrtle Myrica cerifera
Price : CALL

* Myrica cerifera is a small tree or large shrub , and is adaptable to many habitats. As of 1991, no known fire has killed this plant's roots. Cerifera will also provide habitat for the Northern Bobwhite Quail.
  • Height: 15-40 feet
  • Common Name: Southern Wax Myrtle
  • Species: cerifera
  • Botanical Name: Myrica cerifera dried berries
California
Torrance
Caspian Locust, Persian Honey Locust Gleditsia caspia     - Gleditsia caspica
Price : CALL

* This species has a symbiotic relationship with certain soil bacteria, these bacteria form nodules on the roots and fix atmospheric nitrogen. * This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most...
  • Height: 30-35 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Germination: 98%
  • Common Name: Caspian Locust, Persian Honey Locust
  • Collection Locale: Russia
  • Purity: 99%
California
Torrance
Edelweiss
Prices start at : 7.49 USD / each

Super hardy Edelweiss will survive the coldest winter temperatures and the worst summer droughts. It is bound to be a subject of conversation in your garden. This superb perennial produces beautiful cream colored star-shaped flowers and silvery green...
  • Spread: 6-9''
  • Colors: White
  • Genus: Leontopodium alpinum
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
  • Max Height (feet): 6-12"
California
Torrance
Carob Tree, St. John\'s Bread, Saint John\'s Bread Ceratonia siliqua
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Carobs are also known as St. John's bread because, according to tradition of some Christians, St. John the Baptist subsisted on them in the wilderness. * The pulp in the seedpods of carob is very nutritious and, due to its high sugar content, sweet-tasting...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Species: siliqua
  • Germination: 98%
  • Botanical Name: Ceratonia siliqua
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Genus: Ceratonia
California
Torrance
Purple D\'Oro Daylily
Prices start at : 4.99 USD / each

The Purple D'Oro daylily is a wonderfully colored reblooming daylily. The Purple D'Oro daylily prefers full sun. You'll be thrilled with the first flush of 3'' purple blooms from June to October.
  • Spread: 12-18''
  • Max Height (feet): 20"
  • Genus: Hemerocallis 'Purple D'Oro'
  • Plant Lighting: Full Sun, Partial Sun/Shade
California
Torrance
Mealy Wattle, Sweet Acacia, Needle Bush Acacia farnesiana     - Vachellia farnesiana    , Mimosa farnesiana    , Poponax farnesiana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A deliciously scented essential oil, it has a fragrance of violets. * While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia.
  • Collection Locale: India
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Height: 25-30 feet
  • Germination: 98%
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Crop Year: 2017
California
Torrance
Common Salttree Halimodendron halodendron
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

Plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring or early summer, after the last expected frosts. In this manner the plant forms extensive thickets. When they are large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow...
  • Purity: 99%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 63,056
  • Collection Locale: Colorado
  • Quantity: 0.09 lb
  • Common Name: Common Salttree
  • Species: halodendron
California
Torrance
Common Bladder Senna, Bladder Senna Colutea arborescens
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is 2 to 3 centimeters long and contains many seeds. * Colutea arborescens is a species of leguminous shrub known by the common name bladder senna . It is native to Europe and North Africa, but it is known on other continents where it is grown as an...
  • Quantity: 0.95 lb
  • Genus: Colutea
  • Botanical Name: Colutea arborescens
  • Collection Locale: NY Genoa
  • Species: arborescens
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 73
California
Torrance
Nevada Mormon Tea, Nevada Jointfir Ephedra nevadensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A delicious tea is made by steeping the green or dried twigs inboiling water until they turn an amber or pink colour. * The stems of most members of this genus contain the alkaloid ephedrine and are valuable in the treatment of asthma and many other...
  • Collection Locale: Utah
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Species: nevadensis
  • Quantity: 1.19 lb
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Common Name: Nevada Mormon Tea, Nevada Jointfir
California
Torrance
Dragon Tree, Dragontree Dracaena draco
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

The specimen called "El Drago Milenario" (the thousand-year-old dragon) growing at Icod de los Vinos in northwest Tenerife is the oldest living plant of this species. Dragon's blood has a number of traditional medical uses, although dragon's blood obtained...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 10
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Germination: 98%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 953
  • Purity: 99%
California
Torrance
Matucana Peruvian Torch Cactus, Matucana Peruvian Torch Trichocereus peruvianus  Matucana
Prices start at : 12.95 USD / 1 packet

* Peruvian Torch ( Trichocereus peruvianus ) is found high in the Andean mountain deserts of Peru and Ecuador and is similar to the San Pedro cactus ( Trichocereus pachanoi ) which is found in the same region.
  • Quantity: 0.01 lb
  • Common Name: Matucana Peruvian Torch Cactus, Matucana Peruvian Torch
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Genus: Trichocereus
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Seeds Per Pound: 342,680
California
Torrance
Japanese Pagoda Tree Styphnolobium japonicum     - Sophora japonica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Japonicum contains the isoflavone glycoside sophoricoside. * A very ornamental and fast growing tree, it grows best in hot summers. * Cultivated in China for the rutin contained in its leaves and ovaries.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Family: Leguminosae
  • Quantity: 9.65 lb
  • Botanical Name: Styphnolobium japonicum
  • Germination Test Type: cut
California
Torrance
Georgia False Indigo, False Indigo, Savannah Indigobush Amorpha georgiana  confusa   - Amorpha cyanostachya
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Genus: !Amorpha L. * This is a beautiful flowering shrub with an extremely limited range in North Carolina. It's habitat is being destroyed and it is currently listed as a threatened species.
  • Germination: 91%
  • Crop Year: 1988
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 48,000
  • Common Name: Georgia False Indigo, False Indigo, Savannah Indigobush
  • Genus: Amorpha
California
Torrance
Thornyleaf Ononis, Spiny Restharrow Ononis spinosa
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland . * The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised. * Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow...
  • Quantity: 0.02 lb
  • Germination: 98%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 18-24 inches
  • Lot#: 9501
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 26
California
Torrance
Smooth-bark Mexican Pine Pinus pseudostrobus
Price : CALL

It has been introduced in New Zealand near sea level and has done well. * It occurs within a rainfalls regime mostly in summer. It grows between 1300-3250 m. * Thin 8" needles; 4" cones; native to Mexico.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Species: pseudostrobus
  • Family: PINACEAE
  • Genus: Pinus
California
Torrance
Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet  Fontanesia fortunei     - Fontanesia phillyreoides fortunei
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish plant, but extremely tough and vigorous; useful for highways and urban sites; native to China.
  • Quantity: 0.43 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Family: OLEACEAE
  • Crop Year: 1997
  • Purity: 96%
California
Torrance
Interior Live Oak Quercus wislizeni
Price : CALL

The dark-green leaves are usually small, 2.5-7 cm long and 2-5 cm broad, thick and often spiny-toothed, particularly on young trees. * The Interior Live Oak is classified in the red oak section (Quercus sect.
  • Height: 50-60 feet
  • Botanical Name: Quercus wislizeni
  • Species: wislizeni
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
California
Torrance
Bristly Locust, Rose Acacia, Rose Locust Robinia hispida  fertilis   - Robinia fertilis
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Bristly locust is perhaps the best erosion control shrub for steep sloping sites with active erosion. Other common names include Rose acacia and Rose locust . Bristly locust is primarily used for surface mine spoil reclamation, industrial waste piles,...
  • Germination: 78%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 21,400
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Quantity: 1.03 lb
  • Genus: Robinia
  • Variety: fertilis
California
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Cloeziana Gum, Queensland Messmate, Gympie Messmate, Yellow Messmate, Dead Finish Eucalyptus cloeziana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The bark is soft, flaky, tessellated, light brown or yellow-brown, where smooth, greyish white or yellowish above. * The tree reaches its best development in the Gympie region, where some magnificent forest trees attain heights near 60 metres.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Germination Test Type: Actual
  • Collection Locale: Guatemala
  • Family: Myrtaceae
  • Purity: 96%
California
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Arizona Cypress Cupressus arizonica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A conifer of narrow conical form with green, gray-green, or blue-green foliage; shiny reddish brown bark exfoliates in scales; likes heat, drought, and full sun; best in dry western regions.
  • Genus: Cupressus
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 57
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Cupressaceae
  • Species: arizonica
California
Torrance
Indian Rattlebox Crotalaria assamica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance. * They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods.
  • Species: assamica
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 55
  • Purity: 98%
  • Botanical Name: Crotalaria assamica
  • Collection Locale: Hawaii
  • Common Name: Indian Rattlebox
California
Torrance
Bishop Pine, Bishop Pine, Obispo Pine, Santa Cruz Pine, Dwarf Marine Pine, Pricklecone Pine Pinus muricata
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Of symmetrical conical habit; needles stiff, often twisted, dark green, to 7"; cones 2-4 1/2"; native to California, where it is used ornamentally. * The Bishop Pine ( Pinus muricata ) is a pine with a very restricted range: mostly California , USA...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Purity: 99%
  • Botanical Name: Pinus muricata
  • Height: 50-80 feet
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Species: muricata
California
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Cedar Of Lebanon, Lebanon Cedar Cedrus libani
Price : CALL

They act to disinfect the respiratory tract. * The Lebanon Cedar is widely planted as an ornamental tree in parks and large gardens, often being planted in landscape avenues, and as focal point trees in large landscapes.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Height: 60 feet
  • Germination: 83%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Collection Locale: Turkey
  • Botanical Name: Cedrus libani
California
Torrance