Nitrogen Fixing Plant Medicinal Plant For Sale In Fort Lauderdale

* Cercocarpus montanus is common in the chaparral, on mesas and on the lower foothills of the south eastern Rocky mountains of North America. A red to brown dye can be obtained from the root bark.

The fruit contains about 8.3% sugars, 4.5% protein, 1% ash. * The fruit can be eaten raw or cooked. Because airborne nitrogen can be fixed in its roots, it has the capability to grow in infertile habitats.

* 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 .

* Myrica cerifera is a small tree or large shrub , and is adaptable to many habitats. Cerifera' s root system is fire-resistant. This is most rapid in the first season after a fire.

It is a deciduous shrub growing to 1-2 m tall. They are sometimes put in beer and ale to improve the flavour and increase foaming. * Foliage, deciduous, is fragrant when crushed, and has been used medicinally; tiny fruits; branches once used in England...

* 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. * Astragalus sinicus is widely used on rice land as a winter crop.

It's habitat is being destroyed and it is currently listed as a threatened species. Order: Fabales Bromhead family: Fabaceae Lindl. Agardh subclass: Magnoliidae Novak ex Takht. Genus: !Amorpha L.

Some of this nitrogen is utilized by the growing plant but some can also be used by other plants growing nearby. * This tree is remarkable for the number and length of the spines growing on its trunk, which makes it the most formidably armed of temperate...

* While the point of origin is Mexico and Central America the species has a pantropical distribution incorporating Northern Australia and Southern Asia. * An essential oil called Cassie is distilled from the flowers.

* Shiny green leaves. * Native to southern Italy (including Sardinia ) and Corsica. * An excellent windbreak for maritime areas, it grows quite quickly and establishes well even in very windy sites.

* The leaves are used as a tea substitute. It is native to Mauritius , the United States and the west coast of South America in Chile and Peru . A delicious carbonated beverage can be made from the boiled leaves.

It weighs 46lb per cubic foot. The wood is extremely durable and is used primarily for making fence posts. * Gleditsia aquatica, commonly called water locust, after its habitat of river swamps and slough margins.

* The root is eaten cooked or raw. * Lathyrus tuberosus is a perennial plant with edible tubers 3 to 5 cm (1.2 to 2.0 in) long attached to its roots. The plant is a trailer or weak climber, supported by tendrils, growing to 1.2 m tall.

* Appealing silvery-green leaves; small but fragrant flowers; likes sun; a tough plant, doesn't mind drought, or poor soil, very salt-tolerant; native over a wide swathe of southern Europe east to the Himalayas.

* It is used for reclaiming eroded hillsides and wastelands and for stabilizing drift sands as well as for fuel. * It is also extremely vigorous when young, often growing over a metre per year.

* The cooked leaves can be used as a potherb. The erect lower portion of the stem is smooth, but the curved branching inflorescence is covered in glandular hairs. * Penthorum sedoides is 10 to 80 centimeters tall.

A bitter tasting pungent herb with an antiseptic effect, it is chiefly used to treat boils, carbuncles, mumps and infected neck glands. It is one of the 50 fundamental herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine .

It is used applied externally to burns, bleeding due to traumatic injuries, haemorrhoids and ulcers in the mouth. Paitan is antiseptic, astringent and haemostatic. * An excrescence produced on the leaf by an insect Melaphis chinensis or M.

They are often used in the treatment of certain heart complaints. * An easily grown plant, succeeding in ordinary garden soil, especially if it is rich in organic matter. * Yellowish flowers marked with rusty red, particularly on the inside; in spikes;...

* The poisonous alkaloid 'colchicine' is extracted from this plant and used to alter the genetic make-up of plants in an attempt to find new, improved varieties. It works by doubling the chromosome number.

A poultice of the root has been used in treating sores. Both are dried for later use. * Senna marilandica , or Maryland Wild Senna , is a flowering plant in the United States . The root is cardiac and febrifuge.

In Peru, maca is prepared and consumed in various ways, although traditionally it always is cooked. In the vegetative phase, until May to June, the lower part of the hypocotyl, as well as the upper part of the tap root, grows in size.

* The young pods are edible and occasionally eaten along with Javanese vegetables salad with spicy peanut sauce and spicy fish wrapped in papaya or taro leaves in Indonesia, papaya salad in Laos and in Thailand.

* The deep pink flowers are produced on year-old or older growth, including the trunk in late spring ( cauliflory ). * The flowers can be eaten raw. These are heart-shaped with a blunt apex, which occasionally has a shallow notch at the tip.

Lanceolata is used frequently in tisanes and other herbal remedies. * Considered to be an indicator of agriculture in pollen diagrams, P. Gold and brown dyes are obtained from the whole plant.

The seed remains viable for many years. It is widespread particularly in coastal scrub and colonizing land recovering after a fire or reverting to a natural state after being used for agriculture.

* The leaves are used as a tea substitute. It is native to Mauritius , the United States and the west coast of South America in Chile and Peru . A delicious carbonated beverage can be made from the boiled leaves.