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An essential oil is obtained from the leaves and branches, it is used in perfumery and in medicines. This essential oil also has insect repellent properties. The leaves have been kept in the clothes cupboard as a perfume, incense and insect repellent.

* It is closely related to (and in many respects intermediate between) Silver Fir to the north in central Europe, Greek Fir to the south in southern Greece, and Nordmann Fir to the east in northern Turkey.

The crown is broadly conic, while the brownish bark is scaly and deeply fissured, especially with age. It is best planted out of strong winds and sun in moist, acid soil, although may tolerate some lime.

* Native to Japan on the islands of Honshu and Shikoku. * Wood - strong, elastic. * It lives in moist soils in cool wet mountain forests at elevations of 1500–2800 m. Used for construction, boxes, utensils, spindles etc.

* It is a medium-sized evergreen coniferous tree growing to 30 m tall with a trunk up to 1.2 m diameter and a narrow conic to columnar crown. * Twigs slender, firm, yellowish gray-brown turning gray, ridged and grooved with minute pubescence in the grooves,...

* The peeled roots are cut up and added to soups. * A perennial herb with 8" leaves covered with prickly hairs; flowers to 1/2", yellowish white, pink, or purplish, in summer, in nodding clusters; rather coarse; likes rich, moist, limestone soils; native...

* Fir native to the mountains south and east of the Black Sea, in Turkey, Georgia, Russian Caucasus and northern parts of Armenia. * It is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 60 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 2 m.

* The species is being tested as a potential source of genes for resistance to emerald ash borer. * It is also highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even grow well in inner city environments.

* It is endemic to Sichuan in western China , occurring on the sacred mountain of Emei Shan (from where it was first described) and westward to the Gongga Shan massif, growing at altitudes of 1,500–4,000 m.

Produced in areas of greater Syria and Asia Minor, this resin and its oil derivative were used in mummification, as an antiseptic, a diuretic, to treat wrinkles, extract worms and promote hair growth." The predominant trees in the Abeti-Cedrion forests...

The rich aromatic juice, as tart as a lemon, is squeezed and used for culinary purposes. Japonica is also popularly grown in bonsai . * The fruit is eaten raw or cooked. * It is best known for its colorful spring flowers of red, white, pink or multi.

* The bark is scaly and gray-brown with resin blisters. * Needle Fir, is a species of fir native to mountainous regions of northern Korea, southern Ussuriland, and China in the provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, and Liaoning.

* The hardiest witch hazel, fragrant yellow flowers between October and December, often as the leaves are turning yellow in the fall. This is a great specimen to plant as an under story or for a shrub border in large areas.

* It is a common ingredient in many bath products, giving them their familiar pine scent. * Foliar loppings of European silver fir in Czechoslovakia have yielded 1,380 tonnes/year of essential oils (Cermak and Penka 1979).

* The Great Blue Lobelia ( Lobelia siphilitica ) is a species within the Campanulaceae family. It produces a spike of zygomorphic flowers in the late summer. It is an herbaceous, perennial dicot native to eastern and central Canada and United States.

* The plant contains the antiseptic and antitumor compound aristolochic acid. * It attaches itself by means of twining around other plants, it has been recommended for covering pergolas.

* A powder made from the dried and crushed leaves was used as a baby powder by the N. * The bark can be used as a waterproof covering material for buildings and canoes. In the North American logging industry, the grand fir is often referred to as "hem...

* The species is being tested as a potential source of genes for resistance to emerald ash borer. * It is also highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even grow well in inner city environments.

* Bark first smooth, brown-gray, with age becoming dark brown and longitudinally fissured. * Shoots with a dense, rust-colored pubescence; leaves 1.5-3 cm long with slightly revolute margins; cone bracts exserted, broad and tapering to a short cusp.

Foliage produces no appreciable fall color. * Uncommonly cultivated, but nonetheless handsome, this 30-45' Asian hornbeam has relatively broad, deeply-veined leaves with a heart-shaped (the cordata in its name) base & long pendulous green "pagoda" seed...

* The wood is light yet has great strength and rot resistance, and is particularly highly valued in east Asia, with large amounts being exported to Japan where it is in high demand for making coffins, and for shrines and temples.

* An easily grown plant, so long as the soil does not dry out. Likes shadebut it succeeds in sun or partial shade. Prefers a moist heavy soil. * An herbaceous perennial with lemon yellow flowers to 2", May to August; much planted in gardens, where it...

* It is long-lived; some individuals can live well over a thousand years, with the oldest verified being 1,460 years. * This species can be grown as a hedge or as part of a shelterbelt.

It can grow to a height of 15 to 25 feet (4.6 - 7.6 m) with a spread of 10 to 15 feet (3.1 - 4.6 m). It produces off white four-petaled open flowers that are followed by small, round fruit that ripen from August to October.

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

The wood is used for pulp and sawn timber products. * It was one of the first trees introduced to North America, in about 1600. * Scots pine is an important tree in forestry. * Scots pine is the only pine native to northern Europe.

* Penthorum sedoides (known by the common name ditch stonecrop), is a perennial forb native to the eastern United States which produces small white flowers in summer. * Penthorum sedoides is widely distributed in the United States and Canada.