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Mountain Mahogany, California Mountain Mahogany, Western Mountain Mahogany Cercocarpus betuloides
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Betula is the genus for birch, and the species name refers to the birch-like leaves. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging.
  • Family: ROSACEAE
  • Species: betuloides
  • Genus: Cercocarpus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 14
  • Seeds Per Pound: 12,030
  • Collection Locale: CA
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Sweet Pea, Sweetpea Lathyrus odoratus
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* The Sweet Pea has long been a favorite of gardeners because of the wonderful fragrance of the large clusters of colorful blue,pink,purple,red or white flowers. * Sweet pea ( Lathyrus odoratus ) is a flowering plant in the genus Lathyrus in the family...
  • Genus: Lathyrus
  • Quantity: 0.67 lb
  • Germination: 83%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Species: odoratus
  • Family: Fabaceae
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Blue Wild Indigo, Rattleweed, Blue False Indigo, Indigo Weed, Rattlebush, Horse Fly Weed Baptisia australis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Australis is the most commonly cultivated species in its genus, and is also cultivated beyond its native continent in other areas such as Great Britain, where it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
  • Germination: 98%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Quantity: 0.07 lb
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 34
  • Species: australis
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Milk Vetch, Chinese Milk Vetch Astragalus sinicus
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* The plant is used in the treatment of blennorrhoea and also as an unguent for burns. * This species used to be cultivated for its edible leaves in China. * This species is grown as a green manure crop in Japan and southern China.
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Germination: 91%
  • Common Name: Milk Vetch, Chinese Milk Vetch
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 248
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
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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.

98%

    • Common Name: Indian Rattlebox
    • Germination: 98%
    • Family: Fabaceae
    • Seeds Per Pound: 25,878
    • Purity: 98%
    • Crop Year: 2015
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    Asparagus Pea, Princess Pea, Goa Bean, Manila Bean, Four-angled Bean, Winged Bean Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    They tastes like French beans (Phaseolus vulgaris). Use the young pods before they mature for best flavor. Mature seeds are eaten cooked. * Young seedpods - cooked for a few minutes.
    • Genus: Psophocarpus
    • Quantity: 2.47 lb
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 7
    • Germination: 99%
    • Species: tetragonolobus
    • Common Name: Asparagus Pea, Princess Pea, Goa Bean, Manila Bean, Four-angled Bean, Winged Bean
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    Mountain Mahogany, California Mountain Mahogany, Western Mountain Mahogany Cercocarpus betuloides
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    Betula is the genus for birch, and the species name refers to the birch-like leaves. * Native American Californians used the hard wood for arrows, digging, spearing fish, and digging.
    • Height: 8-12 feet
    • Lot#: 9201
    • Seeds Per Pound: 12,030
    • Purity: 60%
    • Botanical Name: Cercocarpus betuloides
    • Common Name: Mountain Mahogany, California Mountain Mahogany, Western Mountain Mahogany
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    New Zealand Sophora Sophora tetraptera
    Price : CALL

    * Beautiful 2" golden yellow pealike flowers in pendulous clusters to 8", in May; pod, to 7", has four wings; evergreen or semideciduous compound leaves; native to both Chile and New Zealand.
    • Common Name: New Zealand Sophora
    • Height: 30 feet
    • Botanical Name: Sophora tetraptera
    • Species: tetraptera
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    Yellow Sweetclover Melilotus officinalis
    Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Seed propagation - sow spring to mid-summer in situ. * Melilotus officinalis can be an annual or biennial plant, and is 4–6 feet (1.2–1.8 m) high at maturity. This can lead to bleeding diseases (internal hemorrhaging) and death in cattle.
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Height: 3-4 feet
    • Seeds Per Pound: 190,680
    • Family: Fabaceae
    • Botanical Name: Melilotus officinalis
    • Quantity: 6.94 lb
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    Japanese Pagoda Tree Styphnolobium japonicum - Sophora japonica
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Used to make the strong, springy curved "enju wood" handle used on the traditional Japanese woodworking adze, called the chouna. * A very ornamental and fast growing tree, it grows best in hot summers.
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Genus: Styphnolobium
    • Germination: 83%
    • Species: japonicum
    • Seeds Per Pound: 3,027
    • Crop Year: 2016
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    Mountain Alder Alnus crispa - Alnus viridis crispa
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    Northeastern North America, Greenland. * It is sometimes used for afforestation on infertile soils which it enriches by means of its nitrogen-fixing nodules, while not growing large enough to compete with the intended timber crop.
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 232
    • Botanical Name: Alnus crispa
    • Seeds Per Pound: 2,688,000
    • Collection Locale: Matagami, Quebec, Canada
    • Purity: 98%
    • Species: crispa
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    Culen Psoralea glandulosa
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    The young shoots are used in making a refreshing cold drink. This species contains essential oils , tannins , gums and resins . A delicious carbonated beverage can be made from the boiled leaves.
    • Crop Year: 1998
    • Species: glandulosa
    • Germination Test Type: Cut
    • Genus: Psoralea
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 30
    • Lot#: 9801
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    Red Clover, Medium Red Clover Trifolium pratense Medium
    Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Red clover is commonly used to make a sweet-tasting herbal tea. It has become naturalised in many temperate areas, including the Americas and Australasia as an escape from cultivation.
    • Genus: Trifolium
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Botanical Name: Trifolium pratense Medium
    • Purity: 99%
    • Common Name: Red Clover, Medium Red Clover
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 350
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    Roundheaded Bush Clover, Rabbitfoot, Dusty Clover, Roundhead Lespedeza Lespedeza capitata
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The plant contains several biologically active compounds. Experimentally, it has demonstrated antitumor activity against Walker-256 carcinosarcoma and is also reportedly effective in lowering blood cholesterol levels.
    • Botanical Name: Lespedeza capitata
    • Species: capitata
    • Height: 2-3 feet
    • Quantity: 3.65 lb
    • Common Name: Roundheaded Bush Clover, Rabbitfoot, Dusty Clover, Roundhead Lespedeza
    • Genus: Lespedeza
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    Andes Alder Alnus acuminata - Alnus jorullensis acuminata
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Alnus acuminata (also called Alder is a species of tree in the Betulaceae family. It is found in Argentina , Bolivia , Colombia , Costa Rica , Ecuador , Guatemala , Mexico , Panama , Peru and Venezuela .
    • Height: 80-90 feet
    • Species: acuminata
    • Botanical Name: Alnus acuminata
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 702
    • Family: Betulaceae
    • Common Name: Andes Alder
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    Field Clover Trifolium campestre - Trifolium procumbens
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Trifolium campestre , commonly known as Hop Trefoil and Low Hop Clover , is a species of clover native to Europe and western Asia , growing in most areas, but specifically thriving on dry, sandy grassland habitats, as well as in fields, woodland margins,...
    • Quantity: 0.06 lb
    • Seeds Per Pound: 649,220
    • Common Name: Field Clover
    • Crop Year: 2010
    • Purity: 99%
    • Height: 6-12in.
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    Southern Wax Myrtle Myrica cerifera
    Price : CALL

    However, this plant will not survive shoot destruction indefinitely. It grows naturally in wetlands, near flowing bodies of water, sand dunes , fields, hillsides, pine barrens , and in both needleleaf and mixed-broadleaf forests.
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
    • Botanical Name: Myrica cerifera dried berries
    • Species: cerifera
    • Genus: Myrica
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    Water Locust Gleditsia aquatica
    Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Gleditsia aquatica, commonly called water locust, after its habitat of river swamps and slough margins. It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. Wood - heavy, very hard, strong, durable in contact with the soil, coarse-grained.
    • Crop Year: 2011
    • Genus: Gleditsia
    • Quantity: 0.33 lb
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Germination: 91%
    • Botanical Name: Gleditsia aquatica
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    Lead Plant, Leadplant Amorpha canescens
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    * It has very small purple flowers which are grouped in racemes . Conservation Plant Characteristics Amorpha canescens Pursh leadplant AMCA6 Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Subshrub, Shrub Native Status L48 (N), CAN (N) Federal T/E Status National...
    • Germination: 71%
    • Genus: Amorpha
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Family: Fabaceae
    • Botanical Name: Amorpha canescens with hulls
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    Vegetable Sponge, Sponge Gourd Luffa cylindrica - Luffa aegyptica , Luffa aegyptiaca
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    Young fruit can be eaten as a vegetable while ripe fruits can be use to make bath sponges. It is native to northern Africa. * Luffa aegyptiaca is a species of Luffa . Commonly known as Smooth Luffa and Egyptian Luffa , sometimes under the obsolete name...
    • Purity: 99%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 25
    • Botanical Name: Luffa cylindrica
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Seeds Per Pound: 5,902
    • Height: 15-20 feet
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    Sweetfern, Sweet Fern, Sweet-fern Comptonia peregrina
    Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is still used for most of the same purposes in modern herbalism. The leaves of the plant are linear to lanceolate, 3-15 cm long and 0.3-3 cm broad, with a modified dentate, pinnately lobed margin; they give off a sweet odor, especially when crushed.
    • Botanical Name: Comptonia peregrina
    • Height: 4-5 feet
    • Species: peregrina
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 22
    • Common Name: Sweetfern, Sweet Fern, Sweet-fern
    • Family: Myricaceae
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    Texas Mountain Laurel, Mescal Bean, Texas Mescalbean, Frijolito, Frijolillo Sophora secundiflora - Calia secundiflora
    Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

    * A yellow dye is obtained from the wood. Common names include Texas Mountain Laurel , Texas Mescalbean , Frijolito , and Frijolillo . * An evergreen shrub with compound leaves, 1" violet-blue fragrant flowers in 2-3" pendulous clusters; pods 1-7"; seeds...
    • Seeds Per Pound: 568
    • Family: Fabaceae
    • Genus: Sophora
    • Quantity: 3.32 lb
    • Species: secundiflora
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
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    Whittmann\'s Peony, Peony Paeonia wittmanniana
    Prices start at : 17.95 USD / 1 packet

    Above the plant is glabrous and dark green; below it is lighter green, glaucescent , with white hairs especially crowded along the veins, and the lower leaves are biternate . Yellow to white flowers, 10–13 cm across, bloom from April to June.
    • Family: PAEONIACEAE
    • Crop Year: 2018
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 6
    • Genus: Paeonia
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
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    Thornyleaf Ononis, Spiny Restharrow Ononis spinosa
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    * The whole plant is pleasantly scented when bruised. It is found throughout much of Europe but seldom as far north as Scotland . * Ononis spinosa is a plant belonging to the family Fabaceae , that is commonly known as spiny restharrow or just restharrow...
    • Height: 18-24 inches
    • Crop Year: 1995
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
    • Collection Locale: Germany
    • Common Name: Thornyleaf Ononis, Spiny Restharrow
    • Species: spinosa
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    Lemon Cucumber Cucumis sativus Lemon
    Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

    * These small round cucumbers ripen to a lemon yellow color.
    • Crop Year: 2016
    • Genus: Cucumis
    • Quantity: 3.12 lb
    • Common Name: Lemon Cucumber
    • Species: sativus
    • Collection Locale: OR
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    European Alder Alnus glutinosa
    Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

    Conservation Plant Characteristics Alnus glutinosa (L.) Gaertn. * Native to most of Europe, including all of the British Isles and Fennoscandia and locally in Southwest Asia. * The plants can be used as a source of biomass.
    • Botanical Name: Alnus glutinosa
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Quantity: 21.87 lb
    • Height: 60-100 feet
    • Common Name: European Alder
    • Purity: 99%
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    Strawberry Clover, Palestine Strawberry Clover Trifolium fragiferum Palestine
    Prices start at : 1.95 USD / 1 packet

    * Palestine Strawberry Clover was developed in Australia and is very tolerant of adverse conditions. * It can be slow to establish but it will hold up to grazing, high saline soils, wet soils and can take some shade.
    • Purity: 99%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 655
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Botanical Name: Trifolium fragiferum Palestine
    • Height: 12 to 14 inches
    • Seeds Per Pound: 306,450
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