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Downy Oak Quercus pubescens
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The acorn stalks are thick and pubescent, up to 2 cm long. Forest-grown trees grow tall, while open-growing trees develop a very broad and irregular crown. It is native to southern Europe and southwest Asia, from northern Spain (Pyrenees) east to the...
  • Common Name: Downy Oak
  • Height: 50-60 feet
  • Genus: Quercus
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Montezuma Baldcypress, Montezuma Bald Cypress Taxodium huegelii     - Taxodium mucronatum
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

Unlike Bald Cypress and Pond Cypress , Montezuma Cypress rarely produces cypress knees from the roots . The leaves are spirally arranged but twisted at the base to lie in two horizontal ranks, 1–2 cm (0.39–0.79 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.039–0.079...
  • Genus: Taxodium
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 56
  • Quantity: 2.03 lb
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Family: Cupressaceae
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Siberian Elm, Chinese Elm, Asiatic Elm, Dwarf Elm Ulmus pumila
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

The wind-dispersed fruit develops in a flat, oval membranous wing ( samara ) 1 - 1.5 cm long and notched at the outer end . The leaves are deciduous in cold areas, but semi-evergreen in warmer climates, < 7 cm long and < 3 cm broad, with an oblique base...
  • Seeds Per Pound: 82,700
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Purity: 97%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 59
  • Family: Ulmaceae
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Honeylocust, Honey Locust Gleditsia triacanthos
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* The pods have been made into a tea for the treatment of indigestion, measles, catarrh etc. * The seeds have been roasted and used as a coffee substitute. The render young seedpods can be cooked and eaten.
  • Height: 60-100 feet
  • Species: triacanthos
  • Genus: Gleditsia
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Fortune Fontanesia, Chinese False Privet  Fontanesia fortunei     - Fontanesia phillyreoides fortunei
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The Chinese make fences around their compounds with interlaced branches of this plant.These branches take root and form a very graceful hedge. * Shrub with upright stems; narrow bamboolike leaves, shiny bright green; small whitish flowers; a roughish...
  • Family: OLEACEAE
  • Lot#: 9701
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 104
  • Genus: Fontanesia
  • Purity: 96%
  • Height: 10-15ft
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Catalpa Paulownia, Paulownia Tree Paulownia catalpifolia     - Paulownia catalpafolia
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Once the trees are harvested, they regenerate from their existing root systems, earning them the name of the "Phoenix tree." * Paulownia has the ability to reclaim ecologically stressed and degenerate patches of land relatively quickly.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Height: 30-50ft
  • Genus: Paulownia
  • Botanical Name: Paulownia catalpifolia
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Swamp Mahogany, Swampmahogany Eucalyptus robusta
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It has long, spreading, irregular branches, and a dense canopy . * Eucalyptus robusta belongs to a group of eight species of spongy red-barked gum trees known as red mahoganies in the section Annulares, and is closely related to the bangalay (E.
  • Purity: 98%
  • Germination: 40%
  • Lot#: 040438
  • Height: 60-90 feet
  • Family: Myrtaceae
  • Common Name: Swamp Mahogany, Swampmahogany
Michigan
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Monterey Pine, Insignis Pine, Radiata Pine Pinus radiata    New Zealand
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* Bright green needles to 6", 7" cones; native to California south to Baja; grows quickly when young; "a beautiful specimen" (Wyman); used ornamentally in southern California, especially along the coast, and as a timber tree throughout the world in Mediterranean...
  • Purity: 99%
  • Height: 50-150 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 15
  • Species: radiata
  • Seeds Per Pound: 13,799
  • Family: Pinaceae
Michigan
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Northern Catalpa, Western Catalpa, Northern Cigar Tree, Catawba Tree, Hardy Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Heart-shaped leaves to 1'; fast grower, yellow and white flowers in late June; large and sometimes rather coarse; fall color yellow, not an asset; tolerates heat and drought; wood slow to rot in soil; native to south central U.S. * The wood is soft,...
  • Genus: Catalpa
  • Purity: 98%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Collection Locale: Missouri
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Botanical Name: Catalpa speciosa
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Mountain Alder, Grey Alder, Hoary Alder, Gray Alder, European Speckled Alder Alnus incana
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* A species of alder with a wide range across the cooler parts of the Northern Hemisphere . * A decidious Tree growing to 18m.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Collection Locale: Poland
  • Seeds Per Pound: 593,480
  • Height: 45-60 feet
  • Botanical Name: Alnus incana
  • Genus: Alnus
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Sweet Azalea, Smooth Azalea Rhododendron arborescens
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Tall with an equal spread. Foliage turns deep red to purple in fall. * Smooth azalea is a large, loosely-branched shrub, 8-12 ft. Fragrant, funnel-shaped, white or pink-tinged flowers with protruding, red stamens cluster in subtle groups of 3 to 6 after...
  • Quantity: 0.12 lb
  • Crop Year: 2011
  • Germination: 30%
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Collection Locale: NC
  • Seeds Per Pound: 2,224,600
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Ann Arbor
Italian Alder Alnus cordata
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Bacteria on the roots fix atmospheric nitrogen - whilst this enables the tree to grow well in quite poor soils it also makes some of this nitrogen available to other plants growing nearby.
  • Common Name: Italian Alder
  • Seeds Per Pound: 186,140
  • Germination: 67%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Genus: Alnus
  • Quantity: 0.14 lb
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Sensitive Plant, Shameplant, Shy Plant, Humble Plant, Sleeping Grass, Touch-Me-Not, Lajjalu, Bashful Mimosa Mimosa pudica
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Aqueous extracts of the roots of the plant have shown significant neutralizing effects in the lethality of the venom of the monocled cobra (Naja Kaouthia). * An attractive plant with small pink flowers; can be grown as an annual in cold areas; native...
  • Botanical Name: Mimosa pudica
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Genus: Mimosa
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
Michigan
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Common Hackberry Celtis occidentalis    Europe
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It is also known as the nettletree, beaverwood, northern hackberry, and American hackberry. * Usually the common hackberry forms a medium sized tree, thirty to fifty feet in height, with a slender trunk; however, it can rise to the height of one hundred...
  • Botanical Name: Celtis occidentalis Europe
  • Location: Europe
  • Height: 60-130 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Species: occidentalis
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American Sycamore, American Plane Platanus occidentalis
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Its wood has been used extensively for butcher's blocks. * A huge tree when mature--early explorers in central New York noted one with a diameter of 12'; open habit, attractive exfoliating bark, sometimes nearly all white and beautiful in winter.
  • Height: 160 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 73,548
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 119
  • Purity: 95%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
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Sickle Keeled Lupine, Sicklekeel Lupine Lupinus albicaulis   Hederma
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Each palmate leaf is made up of 5 to 10 leaflets each up to 7 centimeters long. * Lupinus albicaulis is a species of lupine known by the common name sickle-keel lupine . The flower is purple to yellowish or whitish in color and has a sickle -shaped keel.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Cultivar: Hederma
  • Height: 2-5 feet
  • Genus: Lupinus
  • Species: albicaulis
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Bride\'s Feathers, Goatsbeard Aruncus vulgaris     - Aruncus dioicus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This plant can be found in moist woodland, often at higher altitudes, throughout temperate areas of Europe, Asia, and eastern and western North America, and is also found in cultivation, where it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of...
  • Botanical Name: Aruncus vulgaris
  • Germination: 40%
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Crop Year: 1998
  • Purity: 98%
  • Quantity: 0.12 lb
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Chilean Mesquite, Algarrobo Prosopis chilensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It has a highly developed root system so it is very time consuming when you want to remove from land for cultivation . It lies between 500-1850 m It is a medium low tree, no more than 3-12 m in height and 6 dm in diameter, although rarely as grown trees...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Quantity: 1.38 lb
  • Height: 30 feet
  • Purity: 99%
  • Common Name: Chilean Mesquite, Algarrobo
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 21
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Chinese Paper Birch Betula albosinensis     - Betula albo-sinensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is a larger tree so should be given some room to grow. * Grown mostly for its striking red and multicolored bark that peels off to reveal other shades and colors. * Very ornamental tree.
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Quantity: 0.88 lb
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 90
  • Botanical Name: Betula albosinensis
  • Seeds Per Pound: 813,568
  • Crop Year: 2006
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Nodding Beggartick, Nodding Bur-marigold, Nodding Beggarsticks, Nodding Bur Marigold, Bur Marigold, Pitchfork Weed, Sticktight, Sticktights, Tickseed Sunflower Bidens cernua
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

It grows from 30-100cm tall in wet areas. * The species name cernua is Latin for nodding. * Bidens cernua, commonly called called nodding beggarticks[4] or nodding bur-marigold, is an herbaceous plant native to North America.
  • Germination Test Type: TZ
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: annual
  • Lot#: 070632
  • Quantity: 0.36 lb
  • Family: Asteraceae
  • Common Name: Nodding Beggartick, Nodding Bur-marigold, Nodding Beggarsticks, Nodding Bur Marigold, Bur Marigold, Pitchfork Weed, Sticktight, Sticktights, Tickseed Sunflower
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Redgum, Sweetgum, Sapgum Liquidambar styraciflua    Southern
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

Commonly found on bottomland sites, but tolerates a wide variety of conditions. The star shaped leaves are long-pointed and have finely sawtoothed lobes, it is often planted for it's excellent fall colors that persist late.
  • Height: 60-100 feet
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Common Name: Redgum, Sweetgum, Sapgum
  • Location: Southern
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Genus: Liquidambar
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Southern Catalpa Catalpa bignonioides     - Catalpa syringifolia
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is highly valued for posts and fencing rails, and is also used for interior finishes, cabinet work etc. * A fast-growing tree with an extensive root system, it has been planted on land that is subject to landslips or erosion in order to stabilize the...
  • Genus: Catalpa
  • Germination: 91%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 88
  • Purity: 99%
  • Quantity: 16.65 lb
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Slash Pine Pinus elliottii
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* Deep green needles, 5"+; 6" cones; a source of pulp, timber, rosin, and turpentine; native to the southeast U.S. It is fast-growing, but not very long-lived by pine standards (to 200 years), and prefers humid climates and moist soil.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 35
  • Seeds Per Pound: 16,344
  • Quantity: 1.12 lb
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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African Tuliptree Spathodea campanulata
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* This tree is planted extensively as an ornamental tree throughout the tropics and is much appreciated for its very showy reddish-orange or crimson (rarely yellow), campanulate flowers.
  • Botanical Name: Spathodea campanulata
  • Common Name: African Tuliptree
  • Height: 40 - 80 feet
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 51
  • Germination: 77%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 151,333
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Milkflower Cotoneaster, Parney Cotoneaster Cotoneaster coriaceus     - Cotoneaster lacteus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Hybridizes freely with other members of this genus. * Shrubs evergreen, 1–3 m tall. Petiole 4–8 mm, initially densely yellow tomentose, subglabrous when old; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, sparsely tomentose or glabrescent at fruiting; leaf...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 96
  • Purity: 98%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Germination: 63%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
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Roselle Hibiscus sabdariffa
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

* An annual or, in tropical areas, perennial; 4-5" yellow flowers with a brownish-red base; calyx (the leafy external bud covering) becomes large, fleshy, and bright red as the plant sets seed and is used for drink flavorings and jelly; altogether a handy...
  • Germination: 98%
  • Quantity: 0.99 lb
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 13
  • Collection Locale: Ojai, CA
  • Botanical Name: Hibiscus sabdariffa
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
Michigan
Ann Arbor
Sweet Cherry, Wild Cherry, Gean Prunus avium  Forestry Selection   - Cerasus avium  Forestry Selection
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The parents of these seeds were selected for their superior qualities relating to timber production and grown in a seed orchard in Denmark. * Cherry wood is also used for smoking foods, particularly meats, in North America, as it lends a distinct and...
  • Family: Rosaceae
  • Height: 50-100 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Collection Locale: Denmark
  • Species: avium
  • Genus: Prunus
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