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* In vitro studies showed that extracts of Devil's Club inhibit tuberculosis microbes. * Devil's club was widely employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially for its pain-relieving properties.

* It is grown as an ornamental plant in gardens, where its August flowering attracts butterflies. * This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * Plants can be used as a tall ground cover for large areas of land.

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

* Carpinus japonica (Japanese Hornbeam) is a hornbeam native to Japan. The leaves are dark, glossy and slender, with 20-24 pairs of parallel sunken veins; every third tooth is whisker-tipped.

* The white inner bark is used in making string shoes. * Profuse scarlet fruit in early fall; leaves pale yellow in fall; sun or part shade; native to northeastern Asia.

Regular use is said to restore vigour, improve the memory and increase longevity. * Siberian ginseng is a powerful tonic herb with an impressive range of health benefits. Caffeine should not be taken when using this herb.

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. * The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

* 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 .

* Juniperus communis subsp. The seeds are dispersed when birds eat the cones, digesting the fleshy scales and passing the hard seeds in their droppings. Alpina , Vitosha , Bulgaria .

* Stored seed should be sown as early in the year as possible and given cold stratification - it might not germinate until spring of the following year.

* The nuts are edible. * Blossoms in May. But little is known as an ornamental. * Native to temperate forests, thickets; 400-2600 m. * Common in mixed and coniferous forests as undergrowth , sometimes, especially in the burned areas and clearings , forms...

* 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.

* Habitat and Range: sandy, gravelly, or rocky slopes, often growing in areas underlain by limestone bedrock. * The bark is cathartic, febrifuge and tonic. A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB.

* Native to China, common pearlbush is a loose, upright, early-blooming, deciduous shrub with a broad rounded shape. It typically matures to 10-15' tall and as wide. The flower buds resemble white pearls, hence the common name.

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

* Small, delicate plant forms a rounded mound, often loose and open; evergreen; 3" flowers in May, parents of this strain have flowers in variations of pink and purple; acid soil, good drainage; in the U.S. needs light shade in the North, more shade in...

; Japanese : ??? They are also added to herbal medicines in order to disguise obnoxious flavours. * The unripe fruits are preserved in brine like olives. * Osmanthus fragrans ( Sweet Osmanthus ; Chinese : ??

* A decidious Tree growing to 4.5 m. * It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in July. * A stripebark with vivid white stripes on green or gray-green bark; vivid yellow fall color.

* Succeeds in most soils and pH types, but dislikes growing in wet soils, especially when these are of clay. * In the wild, eastern redbud is a frequent native understory tree in mixed forests and hedgerows.

* Lilium distichum is a herbaceous plant of the lily family which is native to northeastern China and Korea where it flourishes among shrubs and in forests. It grows from 2–4ft. (50–120cm) tall.

Giant chinkapin (Castanopsis chrysophylla), also called golden chinkapin, giant evergreen-chinkapin, and goldenleaf chestnut, is an interesting hardwood species in a landscape dominated by coniferous forests.

* The Siberian Elm is usually a small to medium-sized, often bushy, tree growing to 10 - 20 m tall, with a trunk up to 80 cm d.b.h . The leaves are deciduous in cold areas, but semi-evergreen in warmer climates, < 7 cm long and < 3 cm broad, with an oblique...

* Pinus glabra ( Spruce Pine ) is a tree found on the coastal plains of the southern United States , from southern South Carolina south to northern Florida and west to southern Louisiana .

* Hylomecon vernalis , also known as the forest poppy , is a poppy of the Far East , ranging from Manchuria to Japan . * This poppy is a perennial that spreads via rhizomes, typically no taller than 30 cm.

* Alpine Honeysuckle ( Lonicera alpigena L. It is a deciduous shrub up to 2 m high, in late summer bearing conspicuous brilliant red inedible fruits superficially resembling cherries.

* The new leaves are light green, especially the outer ends of the lobes. The older leaves become a rich green which persists well into the Fall without sunburning. * Fast growing, rounded deciduous broadleaf tree.

* Fatsia japonica (fatsi or Japanese aralia; syn. Ex K.Koch) is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliaceae, native to southern Japan and South Korea. * It is an evergreen shrub growing to 3–6 m (9.8–20 ft) tall, with stout, sparsely branched...