Urban Tolerant Plant Wildlife Food For Sale In Seattle

* A cosmetic face-mask is made from the fruits and is used to combat wrinkled skin. It has compound leaves and is native from Europe to Siberia. All parts of the plant contain tannin and can be used as a black dye.

The fruits are popular with birds, who distribute the seeds. * The blossoms have been used in the treatment of measles. * The fruit is a bright red or sometimes purple drupe containing 3 to 5 seeds.

If regularly trimmed it can be used as a dense deciduous hedge. * A small tree, or sometimes a shrub; white flowers with pale pink anthers in clusters to 4", followed by oblong 1/2" orange-red or red-brown fruit; tolerant of pollution; dense rounded crown;...

It is mostly a high altitude mountain tree, growing at 900-3650 m altitude, rarely lower in the northwest of the range; in many areas it reaches the alpine tree line . Abies, Norway spruce; native to mountains of western North America.

It is native to northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States from far eastern California to southwest Colorado , Rio Grande New Mexico , to west Texas , where it grows in woodland, chaparral , forest, and other habitat.

* It is a popular ornamental tree found far beyond its native range. * The trees are faster growing and have softer needles than the average Blue Spruce. * Majestic also produces 99% blue color trees (shiners) ! * This species has a deeply penetrating...

It has been shown to lower blood cholesterol levels and to improve blood circulation. A pleasant flavour. It ripens fairly late, specimens seen at the end of October 1998 were not quite fully ripe.

* Used as a rootstock for P. Pyrifolia culta in Korea, it is very frost resistant. * This makes a beautiful flowering tree all on its own even though it is primarily grown as an extremely cold hardy rootstock for grafting edible pear varieties.

It is mostly a high altitude mountain tree, growing at 900-3650 m altitude, rarely lower in the northwest of the range; in many areas it reaches the alpine tree line . Abies, Norway spruce; native to mountains of western North America.

Named for Ferdinand Roemer, a German geologist who collected specimens in the New Braunfels, Texas, area from 1845-47. * This attractive perennial maintains a neat mound shape and grows 1-2 ft.

* This pine is useful for reforesting and provides nourishment for wildlife. Like some other southern yellow pines, Virginia Pine lumber case hardens. * Selections have been made for improved timber production.

Jojoba foliage provides year-round food opportunity for many animals, including deer , javelina , bighorn sheep , and livestock. An average-size bush produces 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of pollen , to which few humans are allergic.

A decoction of the roots has been used in the treatment of kidney complaints and TB. The roundleaf dogwood is also a temperate, northeastern North American species that occurs throughout southern and eastern Ontario; in northern Ontario it occurs farther...

* A very ornamental plant, it is hardy to about -15°c. * Shrubs evergreen, 1–3 m tall. Petiole 4–8 mm, initially densely yellow tomentose, subglabrous when old; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, sparsely tomentose or glabrescent at fruiting;...

Any pruning is best carried out in the spring. It can grow 10' a year or more; is often scarlet in fall and has blue berries hidden beneath foliage. Though unrelated to true ivy , it is commonly known Japanese creeper , Boston ivy , Grape ivy , Japanese...

Crowns of myrtle are used in the Ukrainian wedding ceremony. Prick out the seedlings into individual pots as soon as they are large enough to handle and grow them on in the greenhouse for at least their first winter.

* A decoction of the leaves, when watered on plants, repels caterpillars. The dried flower stems repel insects and rodents. * A shrub or small tree with bright green compound leaves; yellow-white flowers in 4-6" flat-topped clusters, followed by quantities...

Jojoba foliage provides year-round food opportunity for many animals, including deer , javelina , bighorn sheep , and livestock. An average-size bush produces 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) of pollen , to which few humans are allergic.

The tree typically grows to 12-15 m, but can reach 35 m in height. The seed cones are large and heavy, 12-35 cm in length and almost as wide as they are long. It is also known as Foothill Pine , Ghost Pine , California Foothill Pine , Bull Pine and Nut...

* It is often called scrub oak, oak brush or white oak. In Mexico mostly north Sonora - Chihuahua . * It typically grows at altitudes of 1,000–3,000 meters above sea level, where precipitation averages between 30–60 centimeters (12 to 24 inches) per...

Taxol has shown exciting potential as an anti-cancer drug, particularly in the treatment of ovarian cancers. It has thin scaly brown bark. * It is a small to medium-sized evergreen tree, growing 10-15 m tall and with a trunk up to 50 cm diameter, rarely...

It weighs 46lb per cubic foot and is sometimes used for panelling, tool handles, bearings etc. It is native to eastern North America, from southern Pennsylvania south to northwest Florida and west to southern Illinois; it is most common in the lower chain...

It has the smallest leaves of any native elm and is one of two that flower in the fall. It usually is found on moist, limestone soils along water courses with other bottomland trees, but it also grows on dry limestone hills.

Plants have a characteristic sweet odor. Germination will usually take place within 2 weeks. * Plants have large taproots and tend to grow in groups. Leaves alternate on the stem and possess three leaflets.

The fruit can also be dried and ground into a powder then mixed with corn meal and used in cakes, porridges etc. * The leaves and stems of fragrant sumac have a citrus fragrance when crushed, and it inhabits mostly uplands areas, while poison ivy has...

* It is often found along waterways and in wetlands, leading to the colloquial name "water maple". * The seeds are the largest of any native maple and are also a food source for wildlife.

It has the smallest leaves of any native elm and is one of two that flower in the fall. It usually is found on moist, limestone soils along water courses with other bottomland trees, but it also grows on dry limestone hills.