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Chinese Coffin Tree, Coffin Tree, Taiwania Taiwania cryptomerioides
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

Giant trees with diameters up to 3 meters are rather common in the mixed coniferous and hardwood forests" * Best grown in moist, rich, acidic, well-drained soils in full sun. The tallest individual ever found measures about 65 meters high.
  • Species: cryptomerioides
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Genus: Taiwania
  • Quantity: 3.52 lb
  • Family: Taxodiaceae
  • Common Name: Chinese Coffin Tree, Coffin Tree, Taiwania
United States
Iowa
Sachalin Spruce, Sakhalin Spruce Picea glehnii
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

It is found in Japan and Russia . It was named after Russian botanist Peter von Glehn . * The wood is beautifully grained. It is also valued for its use in the pulp industry to make paper.
  • Height: 80-100 feet
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Common Name: Sachalin Spruce, Sakhalin Spruce
  • Seeds Per Pound: 122,580
  • Species: glehnii
United States
Iowa
Mountain Ebony, Orchid Tree Bauhinia variegata
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Purple or lavender terminal flowers. * Common names include Orchid tree and Mountain-ebony. * Native to India and China. * A decidious Tree growing to 12m.
  • Botanical Name: Bauhinia variegata
  • Germination: 98%
  • Species: variegata
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 1,856
  • Crop Year: 2015
United States
Iowa
Flying Moth Tree, Flying Moth Maple ACER oblongum
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Maple makes a handsome street tree in SE China. * Bark smooth to wrinkled. * The trees are evergreen, 12 to 15 m tall.
  • Germination Test Type: Cut
  • Germination: 77%
  • Genus: ACER
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 6
  • Family: ACERACEAE
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 78
United States
Iowa
Woman\'s-tongue Tree, Woman\'s Tongue, Koko, Mother-in-law\'s Tongue Tree, Lebbeck, Lebbek Tree, Flea Tree, Frywood Albizia lebbeck
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* A tropical tree with compound leaves and clustered yellow-green flowers. * A species of Albizia , native to tropical southern Asia , and widely cultivated and naturalised in other tropical and subtropical regions.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 10
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 15
  • Species: lebbeck
  • Seeds Per Pound: 3,438
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Germination: 98%
United States
Iowa
Oocarpa Pine, Ocote Chino, Mexican Yellow Pine, Hazelnut Pine Pinus oocarpa
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

While you're there, from 1500-2500 m the forest is mixed with Pinus tecunumanii and Pinus pseudostrobus var. Apulcensis, and above 2000 m it is easy to find pure and mixed forests of Pinus ayacahuite var.
  • Botanical Name: Pinus oocarpa
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Germination: 91%
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 24
  • Collection Locale: La Esperanza, Honduras
  • Common Name: Oocarpa Pine, Ocote Chino, Mexican Yellow Pine, Hazelnut Pine
United States
Iowa
Tecun Uman Pine, Schwerdtfeger\'s Pine, Pino Ocote, Pinabete, Ocote de Caretilla Pinus tecunumanii
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

It grows from the highlands of Chiapas and Oaxaca to Northern Nicaragua (17° to 14° North latitude). With respect to the other Mesoamerican pines planted as exotics, the wood density of P.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 75
  • Species: tecunumanii
  • Germination: 98%
  • Botanical Name: Pinus tecunumanii
  • Genus: Pinus
  • Family: Pinaceae
United States
Iowa
Chinese Coffin Tree, Coffin Tree, Taiwania Taiwania cryptomerioides
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

Giant trees with diameters up to 3 meters are rather common in the mixed coniferous and hardwood forests" * Best grown in moist, rich, acidic, well-drained soils in full sun. The tallest individual ever found measures about 65 meters high.
  • Purity: 87%
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Germination: 59%
  • Height: 200 feet or more
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Germination Test Type: cut
United States
Iowa
Meyer\'s Spruce Picea meyeri
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is closely related to the Dragon Spruce from western China. * Trees to 30 m tall and 60 cm dbh, with a conical crown. * Its popularity is increasing in the eastern United States, where it is being used to replace Blue Spruce, which is more disease-prone...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 4
  • Common Name: Meyer's Spruce
  • Height: 60-90 feet
  • Family: PINACEAE
  • Crop Year: 2013
  • Species: meyeri
United States
Iowa
Kashmir Cypress Cupressus cashmeriana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Blue-gray foliage; drooping branchlets; native to Kashmir or Tibet. * Cupressus cashmeriana ( Bhutan Cypress , Kashmir Cypress ; Dzongkha language : Tsenden ) is a species of cypress native to the eastern Himalaya in Bhutan and adjacent areas of Arunachal...
  • Germination: 56%
  • Genus: Cupressus
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 146
  • Quantity: 1.06 lb
  • Crop Year: 2013
United States
Iowa
Forrest Fir Abies forrestii
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Range China and Tibet * Typically found in high mountains where the climate is cold and wet.
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 7
  • Germination: 16%
  • Common Name: Forrest Fir
  • Crop Year: 2005
  • Quantity: 6.53 lb
United States
Iowa
Queensland Kauri Agathis robusta
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* It occurs in two localities, a southern population on Fraser Island and around Maryborough , and a northern population on the Atherton Tableland west of Cairns. * A coniferous tree native to the Western Pacific Region.
  • Common Name: Queensland Kauri
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Species: robusta
  • Genus: Agathis
United States
Iowa
Red Birch, Water Birch, Western Red Birch Betula occidentalis     - Betula fontinalis
Prices start at : 2.95 USD / 1 packet

* Shiny reddish-brown or dark brown bark; often of shrubby habit; native to Rocky Mountains * The buds and twigs are used as a flavouring in stews It typically occurs along streams in mountainous regions.
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Crop Year: 2002
  • Quantity: 0.74 lb
  • Family: Betulaceae
  • Germination: 63%
  • Collection Locale: Montana
United States
Iowa
Cuban Pink Trumpet Tree, Pink Tecoma, White Cedar, Whitewood, White Trumpet Tree Tabebuia pallida     - Tabebuia heterophylla
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* This beautiful tropical flowering tree from the Carribean will do well in protected locations in zone 9 and anywhere in zones 10 and 11.
  • Species: pallida
  • Common Name: Cuban Pink Trumpet Tree, Pink Tecoma, White Cedar, Whitewood, White Trumpet Tree
  • Botanical Name: Tabebuia pallida
  • Family: BIGNONIACEAE
  • Seeds Per Pound: 43,584
  • Quantity: 0.05 lb
United States
Iowa
Trojan Fir Abies nordmanniana equi-trojani    - Abies equi-trojani
Prices start at : 6.95 USD / 1 packet

* Shoots usually glabrous (hairless). * Vidakovic suggests that "throughout the entire Caucasus and north Turkey only one species occurs--A. * It differs from species plants by having denser and blunter needles that form v-shaped grooves above the twigs.
  • Purity: 99%
  • Collection Locale: Turkey
  • Height: 50 feet
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Common Name: Trojan Fir
  • Seeds Per Pound: 5,448
United States
Iowa
Royal Poinciana, Flame Tree Delonix regia
Prices start at : 5.95 USD / 1 packet

* It is much loved in the Caribbean ; for example, many Puerto Rican paintings feature Flamboyant Trees, it can also be found in The Bahamas as well. * In areas with a marked dry season, it sheds its leaves during the drought, but in other areas it is...
  • Botanical Name: Delonix regia
  • Family: Fabaceae
  • Seeds Per Pound: 953
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 12
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Common Name: Royal Poinciana, Flame Tree
United States
Iowa
Yew Plum Pine, Southern Yew Podocarpus macrophyllus
Prices start at : 9.95 USD / 1 packet

It is the northernmost species of the genus, native to southern Japan and China . In China, it is known as luo han song . Kusamaki and Inumaki are Japanese names for this tree, and Kusamaki is increasingly being used as the English name as well, replacing...
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 7
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Seeds Per Pound: 684
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 9
  • Species: macrophyllus
  • Collection Locale: India
United States
Iowa
Hardy Rubber Tree, Gutta-percha, Du Zhong EUCOMMIA ulmoides
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

It is considered to be an excellent tonic for the kidneys and liver, and is thought to act specifically on the lower part of the body. * Gutta-percha, known as Du Zhong in China, is commonly used in Chinese herbalism, where it is considered to be one...
  • Quantity: 23.73 lb
  • Crop Year: 2014
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Species: ulmoides
  • Botanical Name: EUCOMMIA ulmoides
  • Family: EUCOMMIACEAE
United States
Iowa
Farges Fir Abies fargesii
Prices start at : 7.95 USD / 1 packet

* Abies fargesii is a species of fir, which is a conifer in the Pinaceae family. It is also known as Farges' fir, after the French missionary, botanist and plant collector, Paul Guillaume Farges, 1844-1912.
  • Species: fargesii
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Germination: 56%
  • Height: 100-200 feet
  • Family: PINACEAE
  • Seeds Per Pound: 19,058
United States
Iowa
Chinese Willow Leaf Magnolia, Hope of Spring Magnolia, Biond\'s Magnolia Magnolia biondii
Prices start at : 8.95 USD / 1 packet

* Magnolia biondii is a deciduous tree that grows mainly in temperate forests in the mountains.It has a broadly conical to spreading habit. Magnolia biondii is generally distinguished by its smaller size, narrower leaves, and smaller flowers.
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 9
  • Germination Test Type: cut
  • Height: 30-35 feet
  • Family: Magnoliaceae
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Botanical Name: Magnolia biondii
United States
Iowa
Manchurian Fir Abies nephrolepis
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Twigs slender, firm, yellowish gray-brown turning gray, ridged and grooved with minute pubescence in the grooves, and circular leaf scars. * It is a medium-sized evergreen coniferous tree growing to 30 m tall with a trunk up to 1.2 m diameter and a...
  • Crop Year: 2017
  • Family: PINACEAE
  • Species: nephrolepis
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 34
  • Common Name: Manchurian Fir
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 2
United States
Iowa
Nordmann Fir, Caucasian Fir Abies nordmanniana    Ambrolauri
Price : CALL

* Nordmann Fir ( Abies nordmanniana ) is a fir native to the mountains south and east of the Black Sea , in Turkey , Georgia , Russian Caucasus and northern parts of Armenia. * Ambrolauri source is the most popular for Christmas tree production.
  • Genus: Abies
  • Botanical Name: Abies nordmanniana Ambrolauri
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Height: 150 feet
  • Location: Ambrolauri
United States
Iowa
Saucer Magnolia Magnolia x soulangeana
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

Quinquepeta; large spreading shrub or small tree; flowers of plants from seed, 5-10", may be white, pink, or purplish, usually darker on the outside, whitish inside; flowers before leafing out, and sporadically thereafter--but flowers sometimes damaged...
  • Minimum Hardiness Zone: 5
  • Seeds Per Pound: 3,158
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 13
  • Genus: Magnolia
  • Family: Magnoliaceae
  • Quantity: 4.64 lb
United States
Iowa
Moringa Tree
Prices start at : 69.95 USD / 1 pcs

Don't hesitate to order yours today. He says it's like shipping a giant Mirco-Green. Plant your Moringa trees in the yard to have highly nutritious foliage a short walk away, or place your trees in containers and keep them inside to have tons of healthy...
  • Drought Tolerance: Moderate
  • Growth Rate: Fast
  • Sunlight: Full Sun
  • Year to Bear: 1st year.
United States
Iowa
Sapodilla Tree
Prices start at : 59.95 USD / 1 pcs

The Sapodilla is one handsome tree with a ton of benefits. With great looks and adaptability, the Sapodilla is an excellent choice for a variety of possible planting locations. The Sapodilla Tree adds Diversity-Take a Look: Slow growing evergreen tree...
  • Sunlight: Full Sun
  • Harvest Time: May-September
  • Spacing: 30-35 ft.
  • Mature Height: 30-50 ft.
  • Mature Width: 20-30 ft.
United States
Iowa
Giant Dogwood Cornus controversa     - Swida controversa
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* Cornus controversa (wedding cake tree), syn. * The fruit provides an oil used in the lubricating and soap industry. * A gorgeous tree with horizontal branches creating a tiered effect, accentuated by the masses of small near-white flowers on every branch;...
  • Height: 10-40 feet
  • Species: controversa
  • Average Viable Seeds/Packet: 30
  • Seeds Per Pound: 9,534
  • Collection Locale: China
  • Genus: Cornus
United States
Iowa
White Fir, Concolor Fir Abies concolor concolor   AZ, Kaibab
Prices start at : 4.95 USD / 1 packet

* The crushed leaves have a strong lemony scent. * Plants are very shade tolerant but growth is slower in dense shade. These trees will not prove as winter hardy as the Colorado sources, but are highly recommended in zones 6 and 7.

concolor

    • Subspecies: concolor
    • Height: 100 feet
    • Crop Year: 2010
    • Location: AZ, Kaibab
    • Botanical Name: Abies concolor concolor AZ, Kaibab
    • Species: concolor
    United States
    Iowa