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Balkan Maple ACER heldreichii
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* This species grows up to 50 feet, and has yellow flowers. Mediterranean and Asia Minor. * Sun- and drought-tolerant.
  • Species: heldreichii
  • Common Name: Balkan Maple
  • Quantity: 0.43 lb
  • Genus: ACER
  • Height: 50 feet
  • Collection Locale: R. Macedonia
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Winged Elm Ulmus alata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is native from Virginia to southern Indiana and Missouri south to Florida and Texas. * A medium-sized tree with a spreading, rounded crown; branches develop 2 opposite corky wings; leaves 2 1/2", dark green; fall color may be yellow; native from Virginia...
  • Crop Year: 2010
  • Quantity: 0.54 lb
  • Purity: 97%
  • Lot#: 100517
  • Common Name: Winged Elm
  • Height: 90 feet
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Winged Elm Ulmus alata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is native from Virginia to southern Indiana and Missouri south to Florida and Texas. * A medium-sized tree with a spreading, rounded crown; branches develop 2 opposite corky wings; leaves 2 1/2", dark green; fall color may be yellow; native from Virginia...
  • Crop Year: 2010
  • Common Name: Winged Elm
  • Germination: 67%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 136,200
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Collection Locale: Louisiana
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Southern Sugar Maple, Florida Maple ACER saccharum floridanum    - ACER barbatum    , ACER floridanum
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Acer barbatum Michx. * It is a medium-sized to large deciduous tree, growing to 15–25 m. Southern sugar maple ACBA3 Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Tree Native Status L48 (N) Federal T/E Status National Wetland Indicator Morphology/Physiology...
  • Genus: ACER
  • Botanical Name: ACER saccharum floridanum
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Species: saccharum
  • Subspecies: floridanum
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Eastern Redbud, Southern Eastern Redbud, Southern Redbud Cercis canadensis    Southern
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* A small tree with a sturdy upright trunk which divides into stout branches that usually spread to form a broad flat head. It is also much planted as a landscape ornamental plant.
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Location: Southern
  • Purity: 99%
  • Species: canadensis
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
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Redbud, Eastern Redbud, Northern Zone 5 Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis    Northern  Zone 5
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* A small tree with a sturdy upright trunk which divides into stout branches that usually spread to form a broad flat head. It is also much planted as a landscape ornamental plant.
  • Common Name: Redbud, Eastern Redbud, Northern Zone 5 Eastern Redbud
  • Genus: Cercis
  • Location: Northern Zone 5
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Height: 30 feet
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Eastern Redbud, Northern Zone 6 Redbud, Northern Zone 6 Eastern Redbud Cercis canadensis    Northern Zone 6
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* A small tree with a sturdy upright trunk which divides into stout branches that usually spread to form a broad flat head. It is also much planted as a landscape ornamental plant.
  • Genus: Cercis
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Species: canadensis
  • Common Name: Eastern Redbud, Northern Zone 6 Redbud, Northern Zone 6 Eastern Redbud
  • Height: 30 feet
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Oklahoma Redbud Cercis canadensis    Oklahoma
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* A small tree with a sturdy upright trunk which divides into stout branches that usually spread to form a broad flat head. It is also much planted as a landscape ornamental plant.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Location: Oklahoma
  • Common Name: Oklahoma Redbud
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Botanical Name: Cercis canadensis Oklahoma
  • Germination Test Type: cut
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Mexican Redbud Cercis canadensis  Mexicana   - Cercis mexicana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A small tree with a sturdy upright trunk which divides into stout branches that usually spread to form a broad flat head. It is also much planted as a landscape ornamental plant.
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Collection Locale: California
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 30 feet
  • Genus: Cercis
  • Botanical Name: Cercis canadensis Mexicana
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Giant Evergreen-chinquapin Castanopsis chrysophylla
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Ecologically and taxonomically, it remains a poorly understood species. Over much of its range, giant chinkapin shows several growth forms; it grows in a wide variety of habitats but is rarely a dominant component of any stand.
  • Height: 80-90 feet
  • Botanical Name: Castanopsis chrysophylla
  • Common Name: Giant Evergreen-chinquapin
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
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Giant Evergreen-chinquapin Castanopsis chrysophylla
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Ecologically and taxonomically, it remains a poorly understood species. Over much of its range, giant chinkapin shows several growth forms; it grows in a wide variety of habitats but is rarely a dominant component of any stand.
  • Common Name: Giant Evergreen-chinquapin
  • Family: FAGACEAE
  • Species: chrysophylla
  • Height: 80-90 feet
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Drummond Red Maple ACER drummondii
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The southern type of Acer rubrum.
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Germination: 50%
  • Family: ACERACEAE
  • Quantity: 1.84 lb
  • Seeds Per Pound: 21,792
  • Height: 50 feet
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Drummond Red Maple ACER drummondii
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The southern type of Acer rubrum.
  • Quantity: 1.84 lb
  • Species: drummondii
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: ACERACEAE
  • Germination: 50%
  • Genus: ACER
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Arizona Ash, Velvet Ash, Modesto Ash Fraxinus velutina
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Fraxinus velutina ( Velvet Ash or Arizona Ash or Modesto Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native to southwestern North America , in the United States from southern California east to Texas , and in Mexico from northern Baja California east to Coahuila...
  • Seeds Per Pound: 19,978
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 31
  • Quantity: 0.81 lb
  • Germination: 71%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Genus: Fraxinus
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Arizona Ash, Velvet Ash, Modesto Ash Fraxinus velutina
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* Fraxinus velutina ( Velvet Ash or Arizona Ash or Modesto Ash ) is a species of Fraxinus native to southwestern North America , in the United States from southern California east to Texas , and in Mexico from northern Baja California east to Coahuila...
  • Germination: 71%
  • Botanical Name: Fraxinus velutina
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 31
  • Purity: 98%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 19,978
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Red Buckeye, Firecracker Plant Aesculus pavia    Northern
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* Fine plant for naturalizing in moist soils and where there is some shade. * A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular.
  • Family: Hippocastanaceae
  • Common Name: Red Buckeye, Firecracker Plant
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Species: pavia
  • Height: 15 feet
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Red Buckeye Aesculus pavia    Southern
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* A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * Fine plant for naturalizing in moist soils and where there is some shade. * It is in flower in June, and the seeds ripen in September. * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Botanical Name: Aesculus pavia Southern
  • Genus: Aesculus
  • Family: Hippocastanaceae
  • Common Name: Red Buckeye
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Red Buckeye, Firecracker Plant Aesculus pavia    Northern
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* Fine plant for naturalizing in moist soils and where there is some shade. * A decidious Shrub growing to 5 m. * When grouped or massed in light shade provided by pines the effect can be spectacular.
  • Family: Hippocastanaceae
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Botanical Name: Aesculus pavia Northern
  • Common Name: Red Buckeye, Firecracker Plant
  • Location: Northern
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Paulownia, Empress Tree Paulownia elongata
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* Paulownia elongata is a species of plant in the Paulowniaceae family. Elongata plantations can reach a harvestable size in five to seven years. * This species can withstand a very wide range of environmental conditions, however, it will not grow at...
  • Botanical Name: Paulownia elongata
  • Genus: Paulownia
  • Height: 75 feet
  • Species: elongata
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Paulownia, Empress Tree Paulownia elongata
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* Paulownia elongata is a species of plant in the Paulowniaceae family. Elongata plantations can reach a harvestable size in five to seven years. * This species can withstand a very wide range of environmental conditions, however, it will not grow at...
  • Genus: Paulownia
  • Family: BIGNONIACEAE
  • Height: 75 feet
  • Botanical Name: Paulownia elongata
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Shamel Ash, Evergreen Ash, Mexican Ash, Tropical Ash Fraxinus uhdei
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* This Mexican native is drought tolerant and grows very quickly in tropical areas as a timber tree.
  • Seeds Per Pound: 16,344
  • Botanical Name: Fraxinus uhdei
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Collection Locale: Hawaii
  • Height: 60-80 feet
  • Crop Year: 2015
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Spanish Red Oak, Southern Red Oak Quercus falcata
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* Quercus falcata , commonly known as the Southern Red Oak or Spanish Oak , is a tree in the red oak section ( Lobatae ) of the genus Quercus native to the southeastern United States .
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Family: Fagaceae
  • Species: falcata
  • Botanical Name: Quercus falcata
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Pumpkin Ash Fraxinus profunda
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Conservation Plant Characteristics Fraxinus profunda (Bush) Bush pumpkin ash FRPR Summary Duration Perennial Growth Habit Tree Native Status L48 (N), CAN (N) Federal T/E Status National Wetland Indicator OBL Morphology/Physiology Active Growth Period...
  • Genus: Fraxinus
  • Height: 40 - 100 feet
  • Common Name: Pumpkin Ash
  • Collection Locale: Louisiana
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Quantity: 2.37 lb
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Chalk Maple ACER saccharum leucoderme    - ACER leucoderme
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* A deciduous tree native to the southeastern United States from North Carolina south to northwest Florida and west to eastern Texas. * It lives in the understory in moist, rocky soils on river banks, ravines, woods, and cliffs.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Seeds Per Pound: 9,534
  • Family: Sapindaceae
  • Genus: ACER
  • Species: saccharum
  • Subspecies: leucoderme
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Shamel Ash, Evergreen Ash, Mexican Ash, Tropical Ash Fraxinus uhdei
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* This Mexican native is drought tolerant and grows very quickly in tropical areas as a timber tree.
  • Germination: 63%
  • Common Name: Shamel Ash, Evergreen Ash, Mexican Ash, Tropical Ash
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Species: uhdei
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Cherrybark Oak Quercus pagoda     - Quercus falcata  pagodifolia  , Quercus falcata pagodifolia
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The species is rare in the lower Mississippi Delta. * It is widely distributed on the best loamy sites on first bottom ridges, well-drained terraces, and colluvial sites. These sites occur along both large and small streams of the southeastern Coastal...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
  • Common Name: Cherrybark Oak
  • Species: pagoda
  • Family: Fagaceae
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Silky Camellia, Silky Stewartia, Virginia Stewartia Stewartia malacodendron
Prices start at : 20.95 USD / 1 packet

* It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. * 'Silky Camellia' has been cultivated in the US since 1752. * Silky camellia is an under-story woodland species with rich brown colored bark * It grows best in partial shade in...
  • Purity: 98%
  • Botanical Name: Stewartia malacodendron
  • Collection Locale: GA
  • Crop Year: 2016
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Genus: Stewartia
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