Tropical Plant Specimen Tree For Sale In Seattle

* Other uses include as fodder plant, in intercropping systems, windbreaks, and shelter belts. * Leaves are alternate, pinnately compound, with slender, green-reddish, tinged axis and 6 to 12 pairs of leaflets on short stalks, rounded at both ends.

Tecunumanii Eguiluz & Perry) is a timber tree native to Mexico and Central America. Studies by SAFCOL researchers in South Africa showed that P. When planted at low altitude, the wood density of P.

These buds are often used by children who play with its ability to squirt the water. * In Neotropical gardens and parks, their nectar is popular with many hummingbirds, such as the black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis), the black jacobin (Florisuga...

Though its use in herbalism has been attested to for millennia, little research has been conducted in modern times. * The golden shower tree is a medium-sized tree, growing to 10–20 m (33–66 ft) tall with fast growth.

* Range China and Tibet * Typically found in high mountains where the climate is cold and wet.

Formerly very large trees were common, yielding large volumes of an attractive, easily worked timber that provided the raw material for furniture and finish carpentry throughout the country.

* China: predominantly at 600-3000 m elevation on the high plateaus of Yunnan (Li 1997), but extending N into Sichuan, where it intergrades with P. In recent times it has extended its range as competing broadleaf forests are logged (Farjon 1984, Li 1997,...

Mertensiana ) reaching a maximum of 59 m. At all ages, it is readily distinguished by the pendulous branchlet tips. It is the largest species of hemlock , with the next largest ( Mountain Hemlock T.

* Other uses include as fodder plant, in intercropping systems, windbreaks, and shelter belts. * Leaves are alternate, pinnately compound, with slender, green-reddish, tinged axis and 6 to 12 pairs of leaflets on short stalks, rounded at both ends.

* Douglas fir seeds are an extremely important food for small mammals. Menziesii in the coastal forests of NW North America) and larger by far than the other species in the genus. * The specific epithet, menziesii, is after Archibald Menzies, a Scottish...

* One of the smaller firs, preferring cooler climates.

* A cross between M. Heptapeta and M. 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...

* They can also be made into jellies, jams, pies, cakes etc. * It is easily identifiable with beautiful feather palm pinnate leaves that arch inwards towards a thick stout trunk. * The seed contains up to 45% of an edible oil, it is used mainly for margarines.

Sow stored seed as early in the year as possible. Give them some protection from the cold for their first winter or two outdoors. It is dominant in lowland forest and wetlands throughout the North and South Islands.

* It is also grown for the cut Christmas tree industry. * The specific epithet pungens means "sharply pointed", referring to the leaves. * This species has a deeply penetrating root system that firmly anchors the tree against winds.

* Broad-leaved forests on sunny mountain slopes; 200-2900 m. Anhui, Fujian, Gansu, N Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang.

These buds are often used by children who play with its ability to squirt the water. * In Neotropical gardens and parks, their nectar is popular with many hummingbirds, such as the black-throated mango (Anthracothorax nigricollis), the black jacobin (Florisuga...

* Douglas fir seeds are an extremely important food for small mammals. It is also a popular Christmas tree. Mice, voles, shrews, and chipmunks consumed an estimated 65 percent of a Douglas fir seed crop following dispersal in western Oregon.

N and W Guangdong, NE and SE Guangxi, Guizhou, S and W Hunan, S Jiangxi, SE Yunnan [N Vietnam]. * This species is grown as an ornamental and used for timber. * Native to evergreen broad-leaved forests; 500-1700 m.

The tips of the stems take on a rosy glow in winter, while in early spring bud burst produces bright green delicate foliage, which preserves its colour throughout the growing season.

* Fir native to the mountains south and east of the Black Sea, in Turkey, Georgia, Russian Caucasus and northern parts of Armenia. * It is a large evergreen coniferous tree growing to 60 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 2 m.

In the wild it is endangered , but it is widely cultivated elsewhere. The Poinciana is also the national flower of St. Kitts and Nevis. * The Royal Poinciana is endemic to Madagascar , where it is found in the Madagascar dry deciduous forests .

Anagyroides; it also has the benefit of low seed production. In some cases, diarrhea is very severe, and at times the convulsions are markedly tetanic. Alpinum with the denser flowers of L.

* Cedar plantations, mainly with Cedrus atlantica, have been established in southern France for timber production. * Cedrus atlantica(Atlas Cedar) is common in cultivation as an ornamental tree in temperate climates.

It belongs to the Moraceae, the fig or mulberry family. The leaves are cordate in shape with a distinctive extended drip tip; they are 10–17 cm long and 8–12 cm broad, with a 6–10 cm petiole.

* It has also been planted on the North Pacific Coast of the United States. The northern extent of this tree's range in Chile is considered to be the Vizcachas Mountains and La Campana National Park.

The wood is soft, lightweight, and weak. * Doesn't like hot dry summers. It is used in construction, furniture, and wood pulp. * The tree lives in the cold boreal climate on moist soils in mountains or river basins at elevations of 1900-2400 m.