Tropical Plant Drought Tolerant Plant For Sale In Santa Clara

They are often, but not always, sweetly scented. The fruit is a long narrow capsule 5–23 cm (2.0–9.1 in) long, which splits open at maturity to release numerous downy seeds .In the past, scented plants were sometimes treated as the distinct species...

In addition to its ornamental value, it is also a useful shade tree in tropical conditions, because it usually grows to a modest height but spreads widely, and its dense foliage provides full shade.

* Cynoglossum amabile is a flowering plant native to Asia , which is also called Chinese hound's tongue , or Chinese forget-me-not . This plant is often used as an ornamental plant in gardens.

* Crotalarias are grown in the tropics as green manure cover crops due to their nitrogen fixing capabilities and drought tolerance. * They are occationally grown as ornamentals for their yellow flowers and interesting rattling seed pods.

Viscosa flowers lack petals during evolution to increase exposure to the wind. * Dodonaea viscosa is a species of flowering plant in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae, that has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions...

* It is a shrub -like clumping palm, with several stems growing from a single base. * It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with the leaves with a long petiole terminating in a rounded fan of 10-20 leaflets; each leaf is up to 1-1.5 m long, with...

* Casuarina equisetifolia is a species of she-oak of the genus Casuarina , native to Australasia , southeast Asia such as in Philippines locally know to them as Agoho, and islands of the western Pacific Ocean , from Burma and Vietnam east to French Polynesia...

They can also be ground into a flour and then added to cereals to enrich their protein value. * This species is a small tree; its leaves are simple with toothed margins and are 7 to 15 cm in length.

* Many botanists believe that this is merely a southern outlier of the typical North Plateau race of ponderosa pine. * For now, this small-coned form of P. However, its cones are fairly distinctive and I am not fully persuaded that the described P.

* Thrives in a light well-drained sandy or gravelly loam. * It is a popular ornamental tree , extensively planted in parks and gardens in hot dry areas such as southern California.

* Japanese Black Pine can reach the height of 40 m, but rarely achieves this size outside its natural range. * It is one of the classic bonsai subjects. This hardy pine species is relatively disease free and tolerates poor soil conditions, making it a...

* Mountain Pine or Mugo Pine ( Pinus mugo ) is a high-altitude European pine , found in the Pyrenees , Alps , Erzgebirge , Carpathians , northern Apennines and Balkan Peninsula mountains from (mostly) 1,000 m to 2,200 m, occasionally as low as 200 m in...

* Entada rheedii, commonly known as the African dream herb or snuff box sea bean, and as the cacoon vine in Jamaica, is a large woody liana or climber. As a result of its ready dispersal by sea, Entada rheedii is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical...

* Pinus brutia is a medium-size tree, reaching 20–35 metres (66–115 ft) tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 metre (3.3 ft), exceptionally 2 metres (6.6 ft). The leaves ('needles') are in pairs, slender, mostly 10-16 cm long, bright green to...

The specimen called "El Drago Milenario" (the thousand-year-old dragon) growing at Icod de los Vinos in northwest Tenerife is the oldest living plant of this species. Its age was estimated in 1975 to be around 250 years, with a maximum of 365 years, not...

* 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.

* Shadscale fruits and leaves provide important winter browse for both domestic livestock and native herbivores. * The seed is used in pinole or ground into a meal and used as a thickener in making bread or mixed with flour in making bread.

* Nandina domestica (pronounced /naen?di?n? It is native to eastern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan * Evergreen except in cold climates; delicate compound leaves, reddish when new, later blue-green; attractive white flowers in panicles atop the stems,...

An unusually free-blooming white flowered plumeria, producing a succession of the 1 1/2" white flowers with a yellow eye are born throughout the warmer months. The Plumeria is an easily grown, summer flowering, heat and sun loving small tropical tree...

* Cedro is a tree of the New World tropics, appearing in forests of moist and seasonally dry subtropical or tropical life zones (24) from latitude 26°N. * Cedro is an important avenue and shade tree in the West Indies and South America, and where imported,...

Can be grown in sun or shade. Beautiful variegated foliage with lots of white leaf coloration. Compact grower. This is the smaller version, showing more white as compared to Breynia disticha or Japanese Snowbush, which is larger and darker colored.

Cool morning sunlight and bright indirect light bring out the most intense colors. The striped foliage of Zoe boasts colors that range from cream, thru pinks, and into rosy reds. This Neoregelia Bromeliad readily produces offsets and quickly creates easy...

* Pinus clausa ( Sand Pine , Sandhill Pine ) is a small, often shrubby tree from 5–10 m (16–33 ft), exceptionally to 21 m (69 ft) tall, found in two separate locations, one across central peninsular Florida , and the other in the western Florida panhandle...

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

Never keep the soil soggy. Tropical Hibiscus are sun and heat loving, medium to large, tropical shrubs with excellent flower power and even some salt tolerance making them popular choices for warm inland as well as coastal climates.

Succeeds in dense shade. * Iris foetidissima ( Stinking Iris , Gladdon , Gladwin Iris , Roast-beef Plant , Stinking Gladwin ), is a species of Iris found in open woodland, hedgebanks and sea-cliffs.

* The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish physician and rival naturalist to David Douglas. It is also a popular Christmas tree. It grows at higher elevations (to 9500') with a slower growth rate, and has shorter cones (to...