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Canary Pine, Canary Island Pine Pinus canariensis
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

Roxburghii except in details of cone form. * Under warm conditions, this is one of the most drought-tolerant pines, living even with less than 200 mm per year. Within its natural area, it grows under extremely variable rainfall regimes, from less than...
  • Quantity: 21.84 lb
  • Common Name: Canary Pine, Canary Island Pine
  • Collection Locale: Spain
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Germination: 91%
  • Height: 100-140 feet
United States
Illinois
Cork Oak Quercus suber
Price : CALL

Only the bark is extracted, and a new layer of cork regrows, making it a renewable resource. It is the primary source of cork for wine bottle stoppers and other uses, such as cork flooring.
  • Height: 40-60 feet
  • Family: Fagaceae
  • Botanical Name: Quercus suber
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
United States
Illinois
Blue Oak Quercus douglasii
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Individual Blue Oaks over 500 years old have been recorded, although most are less than 300 years old. * Recent research has found several unlogged stands of Blue Oak woodlands, suggesting that the state may harbor over 500,000 acres (2,000 km2) of...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 5
  • Common Name: Blue Oak
  • Seeds Per Pound: 48
  • Quantity: 10.2 lb
  • Collection Locale: Red Bluff, CA
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
United States
Illinois
Field Elm Ulmus minor     - Ulmus carpinifolia
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

* The tree typically grows to < 30 m and bears a rounded crown. * The tree's typical habitat is low-lying forest along the main rivers, growing in association with oak and ash, where it tolerates summer floods as well as droughts.
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Family: Ulmaceae
  • Species: minor
  • Purity: 98%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Germination: 56%
United States
Illinois
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 tree is short-lived in temperate climates, rarely reaching more than 60 years of age, but in its native environment may live...
  • Germination: 67%
  • Common Name: Siberian Elm, Chinese Elm, Asiatic Elm, Dwarf Elm
  • Botanical Name: Ulmus pumila
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Family: Ulmaceae
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 59
United States
Illinois
Green Ash, Northern Red Ash, Red Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

It weighs 44lbper cubic foot. * The wood is hard, heavy, rather strong, tough, elastic, brittle, coarse-grained. Used for tool handles, furniture etc. The wood is of poorer quality than F.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Botanical Name: Fraxinus pennsylvanica
  • Quantity: 41.13 lb
  • Species: pennsylvanica
  • Common Name: Green Ash, Northern Red Ash, Red Ash
  • Height: 40-120 feet
United States
Illinois
Coast Live Oak, California Live Oak Quercus agrifolia
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* Coast live oak is a native, drought-resistant, evergreen tree, ranging in height from 19 to 82 feet (6-25 m) and in diameter from 1 to 4 feet (0.3-1.2 m) . Scrub jays cache about 5,000 acorns each year over an average home range of about 6.2 acres (2.5...
  • Common Name: Coast Live Oak, California Live Oak
  • Botanical Name: Quercus agrifolia
  • Genus: Quercus
  • Family: FAGACEAE
United States
Illinois
Aleppo Pine, Jerusalem Pine Pinus halepensis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is widely planted for timber in its native area, being one of the most important trees in forestry in Algeria and Morocco. * Thrives in a light well-drained sandy or gravelly loam.
  • Germination: 98%
  • Purity: 99%
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Seeds Per Pound: 20,884
  • Collection Locale: Italy
United States
Illinois
Japanese Pagoda Tree Styphnolobium japonicum     - Sophora japonica
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* A yellow dye is obtained from the seedpods and the flowers * S. Japonicum contains the isoflavone glycoside sophoricoside. * This species is commonly used in Chinese medicine and is considered to be one of the 50 fundamental herbs.
  • Collection Locale: Hungary
  • Genus: Styphnolobium
  • Quantity: 9.65 lb
  • Family: Leguminosae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 3,027
  • Germination Test Type: cut
United States
Illinois
Spanish Cedar, Mexican Cedar, Cigar-box Cedar, West Indian Cedar, Red Cedar, Cedro Hembra, Cedro Cedrela odorata
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

An attractive, moderately lightweight wood (specific gravity 0.4), its primary use is in household articles used to store clothing. * Individual trees are generally scattered in mixed semi-evergreen or semi-deciduous forests dominated by other species.
  • Quantity: 1.43 lb
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Germination: 75%
  • Collection Locale: Guatemala
  • Species: odorata
United States
Illinois
Longleaf Pine, Longleaf Yellow Pine, Southern Yellow Pine Pinus palustris
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* A vanillin flavouring is obtained as a by-product of other resins that are released from the pulpwood. Useful in coastal landscapes, it adds texture and unique architecture to large scale plantings.
  • Family: Pinaceae
  • Germination: 97%
  • Seeds Per Pound: 5,146
  • Common Name: Longleaf Pine, Longleaf Yellow Pine, Southern Yellow Pine
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Quantity: 7.01 lb
United States
Illinois
Chihuahuan Pine Pinus leiophylla
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Unlike virtually all members of this genus, trees of this species can be coppiced. * In South Africa and Queensland, Australia there are big extensions of this tree planted. It is used for construction, firewood, and railroad ties.

99%

    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
    • Purity: 99%
    • Crop Year: 2013
    • Common Name: Chihuahuan Pine
    • Seeds Per Pound: 45,400
    • Germination: 99%
    United States
    Illinois
    Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, Intermountain Bristlecone Pine, Western Bristlecone Pine, Ancient Bristlecone Pine, Methuselah Pine Pinus longaeva     - Pinus aristata longaeva   , Pinus aristata  longaeva
    Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

    * One member of this species, known as Methuselah , is thought to be the oldest living non-clonal organism on Earth . * 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...
    • Species: longaeva
    • Family: Pinaceae
    • Common Name: Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, Intermountain Bristlecone Pine, Western Bristlecone Pine, Ancient Bristlecone Pine, Methuselah Pine
    • Seeds Per Pound: 49,032
    • Quantity: 1.49 lb
    • Genus: Pinus
    United States
    Illinois
    Jeffrey Pine Pinus jeffreyi
    Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

    Each has barbs at the end of the scales. The crystallised sap has been gathered and eaten like candy. It is large and oil-rich with a resinous flavor, and is about 10 - 12mm long. * It is named in honor of its botanist documenter John Jeffrey.
    • Seeds Per Pound: 3,603
    • Crop Year: 2016
    • Common Name: Jeffrey Pine
    • Genus: Pinus
    • Height: 80-120 feet
    • Species: jeffreyi
    United States
    Illinois
    Common Hackberry Celtis occidentalis    Europe
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    * 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 and thirty feet, in the best conditions in the southern Mississippi valley area.
    • Species: occidentalis
    • Common Name: Common Hackberry
    • Botanical Name: Celtis occidentalis Europe
    • Location: Europe
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 3
    United States
    Illinois
    Slippery Elm, Red Elm Ulmus rubra     - Ulmus fulva
    Price : CALL

    * The Slippery Elm is a deciduous tree which can grow to 20 m in height with a 50 cm d.b.h. . The inner bark contains large quantities of a sticky slime that can be dried to a powder or made into a liquid.
    • Genus: Ulmus
    • Family: Ulmaceae
    • Common Name: Slippery Elm, Red Elm
    • Height: 50-70 feet
    United States
    Illinois
    Green Ash, Northern Red Ash, Red Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
    Prices start at : 3.95 USD / 1 packet

    It weighs 44lbper cubic foot. * The wood is hard, heavy, rather strong, tough, elastic, brittle, coarse-grained. Used for tool handles, furniture etc. The wood is of poorer quality than F.
    • Collection Locale: Iowa
    • Common Name: Green Ash, Northern Red Ash, Red Ash
    • Family: Oleaceae
    • Crop Year: 2013
    • Height: 40-120 feet
    • Genus: Fraxinus
    United States
    Illinois
    Myrtle Oak Quercus myrtifolia
    Price : CALL

    * Quercus myrtifolia, commonly known as myrtle oak, is a small, often shrubby, evergreen oak with a spreading rounded crown and smooth dark brown bark. It is native to the southeastern United States ( Mississippi , Alabama , Florida , Georgia , South...
    • Family: Fagaceae
    • Botanical Name: Quercus myrtifolia
    • Height: 15-20 feet
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
    United States
    Illinois
    Northern Catalpa, Western Catalpa, Northern Cigar Tree, Catawba Tree, Hardy Catalpa Catalpa speciosa
    Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is largely used for fence posts and rails, telegraph poles etc, it is also occasionally used for making furniture, the interior finish of buildings etc. It weighs 26lb per cubic foot.
    • Crop Year: 2017
    • Purity: 98%
    • Germination: 36%
    • Collection Locale: Missouri
    • Family: Bignoniaceae
    • Species: speciosa
    United States
    Illinois
    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%
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 44
    • Common Name: Shamel Ash, Evergreen Ash, Mexican Ash, Tropical Ash
    • Quantity: 0.54 lb
    • Seeds Per Pound: 16,344
    • Family: Oleaceae
    United States
    Illinois
    Caspian Locust, Persian Honey Locust Gleditsia caspia     - Gleditsia caspica
    Price : CALL

    * Gleditsia caspica ( Caspian Locust or Persian Honeylocust ) is a species of Gleditsia native to western Asia , in the Caucasus region of Azerbaijan and northern Iran , close to the Caspian Sea .
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
    • Height: 30-35 feet
    • Botanical Name: Gleditsia caspia
    • Quantity: 2.08 lb
    • Purity: 99%
    • Seeds Per Pound: 2,270
    United States
    Illinois
    Serbian Spruce Picea omorika
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    * Picea omorika ( Serbian Spruce ) is a rare, local spruce , endemic to the Drina River valley in western Serbia and eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina near Visegrad , with a total range of only about 60 ha , between 800–1,600 m altitude.
    • Common Name: Serbian Spruce
    • Botanical Name: Picea omorika
    • Crop Year: 2016
    • Family: Pinaceae
    • Seeds Per Pound: 138,470
    • Species: omorika
    United States
    Illinois
    Washoe Pine Pinus washoensis
    Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

    Ponderosa subsp. Ponderosa, as detailed on that page. Ponderosa is distinguishable in the field and certainly occurs at the type locality (Mount Rose, Nevada). * Pinus washoensis may be synonymous with P.
    • Germination: 71%
    • Collection Locale: California Zone 772
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 11
    • Height: 180 feet
    • Species: washoensis
    United States
    Illinois
    Arizona White Oak Quercus arizonica
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    * One of the largest southwestern oaks, this handsome tree reaches its greatest size in canyons and other moist sites. * The acorns usually mature around fall. It also contains fat branches and a spreading crown along with thick leaves.
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
    • Species: arizonica
    • Height: 60 feet
    • Botanical Name: Quercus arizonica
    United States
    Illinois
    Siberian Fir Abies sibirica
    Prices start at : 10.95 USD / 1 packet

    It is used in construction, furniture, and wood pulp. * Essential oils extracted from the leaves are used in aromatherapy and perfumes. * Doesn't like hot dry summers. * The tree lives in the cold boreal climate on moist soils in mountains or river basins...
    • Seeds Per Pound: 33,596
    • Species: sibirica
    • Germination: 42%
    • Common Name: Siberian Fir
    • Genus: Abies
    • Germination Test Type: cut
    United States
    Illinois
    Mourning Cypress Chamaecyparis funebris
    Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

    The foliage grows in dense, usually moderately decumbent and pendulous sprays of bright green, very slender, slightly flattened shoots. * Cupressus funebris is cultivated as an ornamental tree, due to its graciously weeping form and texture, and planted...
    • Germination: 83%
    • Lot#: 9501
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 54
    • Genus: Chamaecyparis
    • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 8
    • Common Name: Mourning Cypress
    United States
    Illinois
    Blue Ash Fraxinus quadrangulata
    Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

    The bark is ground into a powder and then steeped in water in order to obtain the dye. It is typically found over calcareous substrates such as limestone , growing on limestone slopes and in moist valley soils, at elevations of 120–600 m.
    • Quantity: 0.88 lb
    • Collection Locale: Louisisna
    • Botanical Name: Fraxinus quadrangulata
    • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 25
    • Purity: 99%
    • Crop Year: 2017
    United States
    Illinois