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Mountain Andromeda, Mountain Fetterbush Pieris floribunda
Price : CALL

* Upright flower clusters separate it from P. * Soils should be acidic and very well-drained but not excessively dry. * Fairly dense and bushy, especially when young. * Leaves are dark green and leathery.
  • Common Name: Mountain Andromeda, Mountain Fetterbush
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Genus: Pieris
  • Height: 3-4 feet
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Bumalda Bladdernut Staphylea bumalda
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

Genus name comes from the Greek word staphyle (cluster) in reference to the flower configuration. It is native to open forests, thickets and disturbed areas in Japan. * Tolerant of a wide range of soils so long as they are not too dry, it prefers a rich...
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Germination: 77%
  • Family: STAPHYLEACEAE
  • Lot#: 9902
  • Collection Locale: US
  • Species: bumalda
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Chinese Ginseng Panax ginseng
Price : CALL

* Ginseng is characterized by the presence of ginsenosides. * The German Commission E Monographs, a therapeutic guide to herbal medicine, approve Panax ginseng for lack of stamina.
  • Common Name: Chinese Ginseng
  • Botanical Name: Panax ginseng
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Height: 2-3 feet
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Manchurian Hazelnut Corylus sieboldiana  mandshurica   - Corylus mandshurica
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* The nuts are edible. E Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang (Daxinganling), Henan (Funiu Shan), ?Hubei, Jilin (Changbai Shan), Liaoning, Nei Mongol, Shaanxi, Sichuan [Japan, Korea, Russia (Far East)].
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Crop Year: 2015
  • Species: sieboldiana
  • Quantity: 8.29 lb
  • Germination: 91%
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European Bladdernut Staphylea pinnata
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Collection Locale: Ukraine
  • Botanical Name: Staphylea pinnata
  • Quantity: 1 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,589
  • Purity: 99%
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Vine Maple ACER circinatum
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

The syrup is used as a sweetener on many foods. * Grows best in moist woods. * A species of maple native to western North America , from southwest British Columbia to northern California , always within 300 km of the Pacific Ocean coast.
  • Collection Locale: OR
  • Botanical Name: ACER circinatum
  • Genus: ACER
  • Germination: 91%
  • Height: 15-25 feet
  • Common Name: Vine Maple
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Forest Poppy Hylomecon vernalis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This poppy is a perennial that spreads via rhizomes, typically no taller than 30 cm. The flowers are bright yellow 3.5-5 cm across, starting out bowl-shaped, then flattening out with age.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 299,640
  • Genus: Hylomecon
  • Species: vernalis
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Lot#: 080431
  • Purity: 98%
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Hop Tree, Common Hoptree, Wafer Ash, Stinking Ash Ptelea trifoliata
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* The fruit is also used as a hop substitute when making beer and it is added to yeast to make it rise more quickly when making bread. It has been mixed with other medicines in order to give added potency.
  • Collection Locale: Colorado
  • Genus: Ptelea
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 22
  • Germination: 82%
  • Quantity: 3.93 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 12,258
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European Bladdernut Staphylea pinnata
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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.
  • Genus: Staphylea
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 7
  • Height: 10-12 feet
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,589
  • Family: STAPHYLEACEAE
  • Crop Year: 2017
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Catawba Rhododendron, Catawba Rosebay Rhododendron catawbiense
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* 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 .
  • Species: catawbiense
  • Common Name: Catawba Rhododendron, Catawba Rosebay
  • Genus: Rhododendron
  • Botanical Name: Rhododendron catawbiense
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Green Ash, Northern Red Ash, Red Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* A fairly wind resistant tree, it can be grown as part of a shelterbelt planting. The wood is of poorer quality than F. * The wood is hard, heavy, rather strong, tough, elastic, brittle, coarse-grained.
  • Collection Locale: Iowa
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Purity: 99%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 72
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • Species: pennsylvanica
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Tatarian Maple, Tatar Maple, Tartar Maple ACER tataricum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is in flower from May to June, and the seeds ripen in September. * Native to central and southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia , from Austria east to southwestern Russia and the Caucasus , and south to Turkey.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 28
  • Germination: 76%
  • Purity: 96%
  • Species: tataricum
  • Quantity: 2.96 lb
  • Height: 15-40 feet
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Elegant Maple ACER elegantulum
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

S Anhui, Fujian, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Zhejiang; all in China. * Native to mountains, forests, usually in valleys; 200-1400 m.
  • Family: Sapindaceae
  • Height: 20-30 feet
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Purity: 97%
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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Devil\'s Club, Devilsclub Oplopanax horridus
Prices start at : 11.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is noted for its large palmate leaves and erect, woody stems covered in stinging spines. * Devil's club was widely employed medicinally by several native North American Indian tribes who used it especially for its pain-relieving properties.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Collection Locale: Cascade Mountains, CA
  • Species: horridus
  • Height: 6-8 feet
  • Common Name: Devil's Club, Devilsclub
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 13
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Carolina Rhododendron, Carolina Azalea Rhododendron carolinianum
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* 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...
  • Genus: Rhododendron
  • Botanical Name: Rhododendron carolinianum
  • Germination Test Type: estimate
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Common Name: Carolina Rhododendron, Carolina Azalea
  • Seeds Per Pound: 9,170,800
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Striped Maple, Moose Maple, Moosewood ACER pensylvanicum
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* It is in flower in May, and the seeds ripen in July. * A species of maple native to northern forests in eastern North America from southern Ontario east to Nova Scotia and south to eastern Illinois and New Jersey Conservation Plant Characteristics Acer...
  • Family: Aceraceae
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Seeds Per Pound: 14,074
  • Height: 15-35 feet
  • Species: pensylvanicum
  • Purity: 99%
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Gray Dogwood, Northern Swamp Dogwood Cornus racemosa
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Plants can produce many stems and suckers, with older stems, which can reach 5 metres (16 ft) in height, having distinctive gray bark. * Terminal stems holding the flowers are distinctively red and provide interesting contrast to the clusters of small...
  • Quantity: 29.5 lb
  • Common Name: Gray Dogwood, Northern Swamp Dogwood
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Species: racemosa
  • Seeds Per Pound: 15,436
  • Family: Cornaceae
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Full Moon Maple, Downy Japanese Maple ACER japonicum
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

( Nagasaki Prefecture ), and also southern Korea. * A species of maple native to Japan , on Honsh?
  • Species: japonicum
  • Common Name: Full Moon Maple, Downy Japanese Maple
  • Purity: 99%
  • Collection Locale: Oregon
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
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Oakleaf Hydrangea Hydrangea quercifolia
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* One of the most handsome plants for landscape designers. White flowers in upright clusters to 12" in early summer it has nice brown exfoliating bark and spreads by stolons to form mound like colonies.
  • Collection Locale: Ohio
  • Quantity: 0.6 lb
  • Botanical Name: Hydrangea quercifolia
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Family: Hydrangeaceae
  • Purity: 80%
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Tatarian Maple, Tatar Maple, Tartar Maple ACER tataricum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is in flower from May to June, and the seeds ripen in September. * Native to central and southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia , from Austria east to southwestern Russia and the Caucasus , and south to Turkey.
  • Purity: 96%
  • Germination: 76%
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Common Name: Tatarian Maple, Tatar Maple, Tartar Maple
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 28
  • Genus: ACER
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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. * A good city tree that withstands harsh conditions; delicate bright green compound leaves cast a light shade; has substantial thorns and produces large pods;...
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Species: triacanthos
  • Genus: Gleditsia
  • Height: 60-100 feet
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Meigetsu Full-Moon Maple ACER japonicum   Meigetsu
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Fall colors are blends of gold and red. * Bight green with some texture.
  • Genus: ACER
  • Seeds Per Pound: 7,264
  • Family: Aceraceae
  • Germination: 59%
  • Height: 18-24 feet
  • Lot#: 060406
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Red Sunset Maple
Prices start at : 25.99 USD / Each

Make sure that your hardiness zone lies within the zone compatability range of this variety before ordering. Cold-hardy.The USDA hardiness zones offer a guide to varieties that will grow well in certain climates.
  • Shade/Sun: Partial Shade - Full Sun
  • Zone Range: 3 - 8
  • Bloom Color: Red, Yellow
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American Elm Ulmus americana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Dirr notes that several forms occur, but the one most of us recall fondly divided into several major trunks topped by spreading, arching, pendulous branches. * The American elm occurs naturally in an assortment of habitats, most notably rich bottomlands,...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 145
  • Species: americana
  • Family: Ulmaceae
  • Purity: 94%
  • Crop Year: 2018
  • Seeds Per Pound: 98,530
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Green Ash, Northern Red Ash, Red Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* A fairly wind resistant tree, it can be grown as part of a shelterbelt planting. The wood is of poorer quality than F. * The wood is hard, heavy, rather strong, tough, elastic, brittle, coarse-grained.
  • Quantity: 41.13 lb
  • Genus: Fraxinus
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Purity: 99%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 72
  • Germination: 91%
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English Holly Ilex aquifolium
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Noxious weed in California * Spiny, shiny, dark green leaves, fragrant white flowers in May; quarter-inch red fruit, very attractive; parent of many cultivars. * Ilex aquifolium ( Holly , or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also...
  • Germination: 98%
  • Height: 20-30 feet
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Quantity: 1.2 lb
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 26
  • Crop Year: 2007
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Siberian Ginseng Eleutherococcus senticosus     - Acanthopanax senticosus
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Regular use is said to restore vigour, improve the memory and increase longevity. Caffeine should not be taken when using this herb. It is a pungent bitter-sweet warming herb that is said to be stronger in its action than ginseng.
  • Species: senticosus
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 12
  • Germination: 56%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
  • Genus: Eleutherococcus
  • Quantity: 2.92 lb
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