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The water in which the leaves are cooked is used in making corn pudding . * Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic livestock and native herbivores.

The bulk of its range is in Turkey, but it also extends to the East Aegean Islands of Greece, the Crimea, Iran, Georgia, Azerbaijan, northern Iraq, western Syria, Israel, Lebanon, and Cyprus.

* Sun- and drought-tolerant. Mediterranean and Asia Minor. * This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers.

Each branch grows for about 10–15 years and re-branches, so a mature plant has an umbrella-like habit. Its massive trunk comes from the contribution of clusters of aerial roots that emerge from the bases of lowest branches and grow down to the soil.

* Thick, slightly twisted bright green 3-4 1/2" needles. Pines make an amazing bonsai because the rough bark on their trunks makes them look old early on. * It is one of the classic bonsai subjects.

* The leaves are used for making baskets, chair seats or thatch. The fibres are up to 50cm long, they are harvested commercially and used to make brushes, especially where these have to remain stiff in hot water or caustics.

The tree was 18 m in height with a d.b.h. of 5 m in 2013. * Celtis australis is supposed to have been the Lotus of the ancients, whose fruit Herodotus, Dioscorides, and Theophrastus describe as sweet, pleasant, and wholesome.

Quercus myrtifolia is an evergreen tree that can reach 12 meters (40 feet) tall or shrub in drier sites. * Quercus myrtifolia, commonly known as myrtle oak, is a small, often shrubby, evergreen oak with a spreading rounded crown and smooth dark brown...

Tolerates the high pH of chalk streams. * Although this plant can be grown in wet soils and shallow water, it thrives in any soil and trees actually grow faster in normal unflooded soils.

They keep their blue color well after drying. * This is an excellent plant to use for cut flowers and dried flowers. * It is very cold hardy, coming from Siberia, and will also tolerate drought and saline conditions.

* Scarlet and yellow flowers followed by 2' pods; grows rapidly; dense-growing, fernlike, doubly compound leaves to 2'; native to Madagascar, much grown in southern Florida and Hawaii.

Also useful for stabilizing embankments. Also tolerates some drought. * Garden Uses Mass or group in the shrub border or native plant garden. Prune in early spring. Blooms on new growth.

The genus name is Greek - rhapis, meaning "needle"; and the species name is Latin for "tall", an ironic name choice as R. It is not known in the wild; all known plants come from cultivated groups in China.

A widely used landscape tree especially in the Midwest and East. It usually has a rounded conic form, that becomes irregular with age. * It is found at elevations ranging from sea level to 2,000 metres (6,600 ft), most commonly from 250–1,600 metres...

* Unlike most species of pine. * Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m,...

* Unlike virtually all members of this genus, trees of this species can be coppiced. It is used for construction, firewood, and railroad ties. * This species often grows in mixed in stands with several other pines and/or junipers, in Arizona most often...

The juiceof the pods is antiseptic. * Our "Thornless" seed comes very true. It is very adaptable to soils and displays excellent salt tolerance. Seedpods - the pulp is sweet and can be eaten raw or made into sugar.

The leaves are oval in shape with edges that curl under and measure up to 10 centimeters in length. The flower has five white petals each about a centimeter long. It is a shrub which can reach several meters tall and become treelike.

* The leaves and the wood are antiseptic and expectorant. * As a result of long exploitation, few old trees remain in Lebanon, but there is now an active program to conserve and regenerate the forests.

* This is perhaps the most strongly scented flower in the world! * Exceptionally large trees recorded include a 35 m (114 ft) high specimen from the Chickasawhay District, DeSoto National Forest in Mississippi which measured 17 feet 8 inches in circumference...

The plant is desirable fodder when it grows in fields grazed by livestock . The flowers attract bees , butterflies , and hummingbirds . The plant produces pods containing yellow seeds with papery wings.

* The fruit can be used as a pickle like olives. * Grown for its masses of glorious, delicate, white, slightly fragrant flowers in May; of open, spreading habit; native to the southeastern United States but hardy nearly everywhere; dark green leaf sometimes...

* One of the largest southwestern oaks, this handsome tree reaches its greatest size in canyons and other moist sites. It also contains fat branches and a spreading crown along with thick leaves.

It is commonly kept as an ornamental plant. This perennial is a native plant found throughout the eastern part of the United States and in many parts of the western U.S., Canada , and Mexico .

* The plant can tolerate maritime exposure. The species is often smaller, stunted and twisted in coastal exposures. Muricata has been used in plantations with resultant growth rates higher than in the wild .

* Foliage dark green in summer, orange or orange red in fall. * Doesn't mind heat and drought; grows quickly. * In the low-elevation deserts of Arizona, it is the only tree whose leaves turn scarlet in fall.

* This is one of our most popular bonsai seeds. The species is one of three closely related trees known as bristlecone pines and is sometimes known as the Intermountain or Western bristlecone pine .