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The tree is typically long-lived. * The Kentucky Coffeetree is a relatively fast-growing tree and generally grows in parks and along city streets for ornamental purposes. Branches stout, pithy, and blunt; roots fibrous.

Modern research has shown that there are many health benefits to drinking tea, including its ability to protect the drinker from certain heart diseases. * The tea plant is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one of the 50...

Synonyms include Ilex monticola . * Sometimes a tree, more often a shrub to about 15'; bright red fruits; grows on woody slopes from New York south to Georgia, west to Alabama (range of origin).

It is abundant further south on the southern coast and in the Gulf states, reaching its greatest size on the bottomlands of southern Arkansas and eastern Texas. * Ilex opaca is a medium-sized broadleaved evergreen tree growing to 10-20 m tall, exceptionally...

* The Kaibab source is our second best for blue color. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range.

* It is an evergreen climbing plant, growing to 20–30 m high where suitable surfaces ( trees , cliffs , walls ) are available, and also growing as ground cover where there are no vertical surfaces.

* Of upright, arching form; green leaves; flowers in late summer, flowering section of spike to 15" long; likes full sun or part shade, rich soil; tolerates salt, wet conditions; native to cool temperate areas of North America.

* The plant's trunk, branches, and leaves are blue-green in color, hence the common name. Photosynthesis is performed by the blue-green branches and twigs, regardless of absent leaves.

* Flowering dogwood is a small deciduous tree growing to 10 m (33 ft) high, often wider than it is tall when mature. * It has very striking white flower-like bracts that open in April and May before leaves emerge; shiny red fruit that ripens in late September...

* It has very striking white flower-like bracts that open in April and May before leaves emerge; shiny red fruit that ripens in late September and October. * The most familiar of the dogwoods; a small tree with low branches that tend to form horizontal...

* The deep red color of this dissected leaf variety also holds well into the summer. * Reaching 4-5 meters high. * New spring growth that is covered in very fine silvery hairs making it look almost grey.

* The unfolding leaves in spring start out orange turn to green for the summer and then become spectacular blends of crimson and gold in the fall. * Small tree with cascading branches.

* A shampoo made from the roots can be used as a hair shampoo. It is native to North America where it is widespread across the western United States in streamside thickets, wooded hillsides, and coniferous forests up to 4,000 feet.

* The foliage is purplish-red holding into the summer then some green tones come in changing to red and scarlet in fall. * A very desirable color * Makes a delightful upright small tree, maturing at 4 meters.

* The leaves are large. * As with all seed collected from cultivars it is uncertain if the resulting seedlings will resemble the mother or not. It is brilliant yellow or yellow-orange color while in Osakazuki it is crimson.

This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height. The stems may be smooth or fuzzy, and are often glandular. * Arctostaphylos viscida is a species of manzanita known by the common names whiteleaf manzanita and sticky manzanita .

This is a treelike shrub reaching up to five meters in height. The stems may be smooth or fuzzy, and are often glandular. * Arctostaphylos viscida is a species of manzanita known by the common names whiteleaf manzanita and sticky manzanita .

The wind-dispersed fruit develops in a flat, oval membranous wing ( samara ) 1 - 1.5 cm long and notched at the outer end . * Of open, wide-spreading habit, with several main branches ramifying into small branchlets; grows quickly, but wood may be brittle...

Bark is "light brown to gray" in color and may be smooth or "warty and roughened". * Grows as a shrub or small tree; light gray stems, shiny dark green leaves, fall color yellow; orange to scarlet quarter-inch fruits persisting until spring; native to...

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME. 1977 Name verified on: 01-Apr-1999 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Murray Genus: Acer section: Macrantha Family: Sapindaceae subfamily: Hippocastanoideae tribe: Acereae.

Amomum, but with purple or yellowish-red stems, and like that species prefers wet soils. In the words of the Royal Horticultural Society, this subspecies primarily differs from species plants by having "a looser habit".

* Quercus texana , commonly known as Nuttall's Oak , is a fast growing large deciduous Oak tree native to North America from the lower Mississippi river valley from SE Missouri to Southern Louisiana and SE Texas and East through Mississippi to Central...

* Shiny leathery leaves, coarse, evergreen, dark green or blue green. * Very fragrant yellow flowers in early spring. A pleasant acid flavour, it is nice when added to muesli or porridge.

* A large shrub with attractive red-brown bark, white flowers in midsummer, and yellow-orange fall color; native to southeast U.S.

* Similar to Cornus alba but with coral red stems and bluish fruits. * Fruit is quite attractive to birds and is generally considered to have as much if not more ornamental interest than the flowers.

The wind-dispersed fruit develops in a flat, oval membranous wing ( samara ) 1 - 1.5 cm long and notched at the outer end . * Of open, wide-spreading habit, with several main branches ramifying into small branchlets; grows quickly, but wood may be brittle...

* Berberis thunbergii ( Japanese barberry or Thunberg's Barberry , also Red Barberry ) is a species of Berberis , native to Japan and eastern Asia . * Our seed produces a very high percentage of Red seedlings.