Poisonous Plant Acid Loving Plant For Sale In Frisco

A delicately scented essential oil, obtained from the roots, has been used to adulterate the oil of Acorus calamus. The root is a source of tannin and has been used in making ink. A good black dye is obtained from the root if it is mixed with iron sulphate.

* Requires a free-draining, light, sandy, acid soil with additional leafmould added. It burns with a clear, bright flame and is valued as a fuel. * Cliftonia monophylla ( Buck-wheat tree , Buckwheat tree , Titi ) is a tree native to the United States...

* Rhododendron catawbiense ( Catawba Rhododendron ) is a species of Rhododendron native to the eastern United States , growing mainly in the Appalachian Mountains from Virginia south to northern Alabama .

Extremely winter hardy (grows in the wild as far north as Quebec) and is one of the parents of the Northern Lights hybrids developed by the University of Minnesota. Flowers (to 1.5" long) are in trusses of 5-9 flowers each and have a pleasant, clove-like...

Sarracenia rubra is generally clump-forming. The uppermost part of the leaf is flared into a lid (the operculum), which prevents excess rain from entering the pitcher and diluting the digestive secretions within.

The wood is strongly resistant to rot, is not eaten by termites, and is easily worked. Used in construction, ship building etc wherever great strength is required. * An evergreen native to China, where it is a widely used timber tree; the wood resists...

* The trapping mechanism is so specialized that it can distinguish between living prey and non-prey stimuli such as falling raindrops; two trigger hairs must be touched in succession within 20 seconds of each other or one hair touched twice in rapid succession,...

It bears tall tapering racemes of white midsummer flowers on wiry black-purple stems, whose mildly unpleasant, medicinal smell at close range gives it the common name "Bugbane". * Actaea racemosa (black cohosh, black bugbane, black snakeroot, fairy candle;...

* Leaves are dark green and leathery. * Upright flower clusters separate it from P. * Fairly dense and bushy, especially when young. Japonica which has pendulous flower clusters. * Native to primarily North and South Carolina, but also found in Virginia...

* An extract from fruit called myricerone blocks a receptor for the peptide, endothelin, an important mediator of blood vessel constriction, indicating potential for drug development.

The shoots are orange-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence. The cones are cylindric-conic, 4-8 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales.

* The fruit is rich in pectin. A good dense ground cover plant, growing well in light woodland. It takes a little while to settle down and needs weeding for the first few years but becomes rampant when established and can then spread 60 - 90cm per year.

Ducks and other water birds and shorebirds consume the seeds. * The inner bark has been chewed in the treatment of toothaches. * An easily grown plant, it prefers an open position in a moisture retentive or wet neutral to acid humus-rich soil.

The shoots are orange-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence. The cones are cylindric-conic, 4-8 cm long and 2 cm broad, maturing pale brown 5-7 months after pollination, and have stiff, smoothly rounded scales.

Birds consume the dry fruit. It was once classified as Laurocerasus caroliniana. Cherry Laurel, Carolina Cherry, Laurelcherry or Wild Mock Orange, is a flowering tree native to the Southeastern United States, from North Carolina south to Florida and westward...

* An erect, clump-forming perennial which features pale pink to white flowers enclosed in spiny, reddish-purple bracts and arranged in vertical rows on substantial flower spikes rising well above the foliage to 3-4' tall.

* Rhododendron atlanticum ( Dwarf azalea or Coastal azalea ), is a species of Rhododendron native to coastal areas of the eastern United States , from New Jersey south to Georgia .

* A cross between M. Quinquepeta; large spreading shrub or small tree; flowers of plants from seed, 5-10", may be white, pink, or purplish, usually darker on the outside, whitish inside; flowers before leafing out, and sporadically thereafter--but flowers...

It was introduced to New Zealand from Scotland as a type of hedge, but became a major blight to farmers as the climate suited its growth better than its native habitat and many of its natural predators were absent.

* A beautiful very vigorous variety well know for its extreme cold hardiness.

* Externally it is a very beneficial treatment for a variety of skin complaints, wounds, sores, burns, boils etc and is used in the form of liniment plasters, poultices, herbal steam baths and inhalers.

Oblong to elliptic green leaves. Prinophyllum) are also found within the range of this species. A deciduous shrub, with terminal clusters of pink, tubular, vase-shaped, slightly fragrant flowers.

* The fruit is rich in iron and copper. * Amelanchier spicata has clusters of small white flowers that bloom in spring. It is rather small, about 8mm in diameter. They can be eaten raw or cooked.

Ducks and other water birds and shorebirds consume the seeds. * The inner bark has been chewed in the treatment of toothaches. * An easily grown plant, it prefers an open position in a moisture retentive or wet neutral to acid humus-rich soil.

The leaves are 1.5-7 cm long and 1-3 cm broad, with an entire or finely serrated margin and an acute apex, and a 0.5–2 cm petiole. The fruit is a red drupe 6–7 mm diameter containing three to five pits

Baeticum (Boiss. Description It is a dense, suckering shrub or small tree growing to 5 m tall, rarely 8 m. The leaves are evergreen , 6-18 cm long and 2-5 cm broad. Bulgaria east to Georgia.

* An extract from fruit called myricerone blocks a receptor for the peptide, endothelin, an important mediator of blood vessel constriction, indicating potential for drug development.