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blue elderberry can grow as tall as 20 feet but usually only growing to 9. this plant has jagged leaves and this plant was widely used by southern California native americans in a multitude of ways they made flutes, bows, pipes, out of the easy to work with and hollow wood. the berries can make pies, jellies, jams, wines but are toxic if not cooked properly. [[]]http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=SANIC5[[]] |
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This plant is small tree or shrub usually around waist to shoulder hight but can grow as tall 25 feet, with small gray/green leaves with waxy like coating. a very unique characteristic of this plant is its deep red bark (that some rodents cant get enough of), it is a beautiful plant thats bark has a wonderful smooth feeling. some native american tribes used this plant as a dried snack, and the cut the apical meristem of this plant along with the fruit and flower and made a nice tea like dr |
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Could be Ribes viscosissimum, Sticky Currant The fruit is an edible blue-black berry a centimeter long or longer. |
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Strange Brazilian Alien Fruit |
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The berries were used by Native Americans for medicinal purposes, the origin of the name "fever bush". Medicinal Uses: Black alder is tonic, alterative, and astringent. It strengthens the circulation, improves nutrition, and aids in the removal of waste material, thus effectually aiding the vegetative processes. It has been used with good effect in jaundice, diarrhoea, gangrene, and all diseases attended with great weakness. It has also been of service in dropsy. Two drachms of the po |
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Food Uses: The fruit is edible when cooked, and can be used to make jam Other Notes: Dark blue, turquoise, and purple dyes are obtained from the fruit Cultivation: Must have well drained soil whether in sun or part shade. Avoid overhead irrigation, especially at night. Leaf spot, scale, and fire blight may be problematic, but usually Indian hawthorns are quite rugged given proper conditions. Oil sprays are not recommended. Sun to part shade. Provide average moisture, this shrub is drought tole |
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Chaenomeles and other quinces have been grown for centuries for food, medicine, and so that people may enjoy their beauty. The fruit is mentioned as a medicinal by the Greek physician Theophrastus (ca. 300 B.C.). Medicinal Uses: The Chinese herb was first described in the Mingyi Bielu by Tao Hongjing (ca. 500 A.D.). Its special reputation is that it relaxes the tendons, muscles, and meridians. This property was originally understood in relation to the ancient concept that the sour taste soften |
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Lilacs in the United States date back to the mid 1750's. They were grown in America's first botanical gardens and were popular in New England. Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew them in their gardens. Lilac bushes can live for hundreds of years, so a bush planted at that time may still be around. Lilacs originated from Europe and Asia, with the majority of natural varieties coming from Asia. In Europe, lilacs came from the Balkans, France and Turkey. The lilac has lived close to m |
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It was cultivated as early as 1735 as a honey plant. A decoction of the inner bark was used by Native Americans as an emetic. The bark was also used as a substitute for quinine. The Choctaw and Seminole peoples used decoctions of buttonbush bark for treating several internal maladies including diarrhea and stomach aches. Medicinal Uses: Buttonbush was often employed medicinally by native North American Indian tribes who used it to treat a range of ailments. It is little used in modern Herbalism. |
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Medicinal Uses: The roots dug in the fall are boiled in water for coughs, drunk morning and evening. Ground Apache Plume roots have been mixed with sugar for a cough; ground leaves mixed with wild tobacco (punche) for rheumatic joints; ground flowers mixed with horehound, flour and water to massage swollen parts of the body. Aspirin-like qualities are found in its inner bark, much like that of aspen and willow. The spring twigs bay be boiled and drunk for indigestion and “spring” fevers. The p |
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Medicinal Uses: A root poultice or salve treats skin sores and sprains. A decoction may be used to ease arthritic pain. Yucca Root treats inflammation, joint pain associated with osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis Food Uses: The flowers of many yucca species are edible and used raw in salads or cooked. Those from Adam's needle are said to taste like Belgian endive. Yucca fruit can be cooked and eaten after the seeds are removed; the large petals are used in salads. Other Uses: Yucca leaves |
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Food Uses: the immature fruit is cooked. A bitter taste, but most of the bitterness is in the skin. Flowers - raw or cooked. They are delicious raw, and can also be dried, crushed and used as a flavoring. Flowering stem - peeled, cooked, and used like asparagus. The whitish inner portion is eaten Other Uses: A fiber obtained from the leaves is used for making ropes, baskets, and mats. The leaves themselves can be used as paint brushes, brooms or woven to make mats etc. The roots are rich in sap |
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The roots, leaves and branches of the American beautyberry were used by the Alabama, Choctaw, Creek, Koasati, Seminole and other Native American tribes for various medicinal purposes Medicinal Uses: A decoction of the root bark has been used as a diuretic. The leaves are a cure for dropsy. A tea made from the roots is used in the treatment of dysentery and stomach aches. A tea made from the roots and berries is used in the treatment of colic. Some native North American Indian tribes used the le |
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Prickly pears also produce a fruit that is commonly eaten in Mexico, known as "tuna"; it also is used to make aguas frescas. The fruit can be red, wine-red, green or yellow-orange. Charles Darwin was the first to note that these cacti have thigmotactic anthers: when the anthers are touched, they curl over, depositing their pollen. This movement can be seen by gently poking the anthers of an open Opuntia flower. The same trait has evolved convergently in other cacti The fruit of prickl |
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In botanical terminology, the fruit is not a berry, but an aggregate fruit of numerous drupelets ripening to black or dark purple. In its first year, a new stem, the primocane, grows vigorously to its full length of 3-6 m (in some cases, up to 9 m), arching or trailing along the ground and bearing large palmately compound leaves with five or seven leaflets; it does not produce any flowers. In its second year, the cane becomes a floricane and the stem does not grow longer, but the flower buds bre |
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Medicinal Uses:The plant was used medicinally by the Okanagan-Colville, Shoshoni and Thompson Indians. An infusion of the inner bark was used as a wash for sore eyes. The fruit was sometimes eaten in quantity to induce vomiting. It has also been used to treat diarrhea. Leaves and root are a diuretic. At San Ildefonso Pueblo, the ground leaves - reduced to a paste with water - have been spread over a fracture with dandelion leaves bound on it with rags. An infusion of the inner bark has been us |
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It has been cultivated for more than more than 300 years Leaves and roots are popular folk remedies. In herbal medicine, infusions of the leaves and other plant parts are used as an anti-inflammatory. A tonic and expectorant, and added to baths as an antirhumatic. Lantana extracts have also been shown to be a powerful febrifuge The leaves are used to relieve itching. Other uses are against flu, colds, coughs, fevers, yellow fever, dysentery and jaundice. The roots are used for gonorrhea Leaf |
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Banaba has been used in Filipino folkloric herbal medicine for the treatment of diabetes for centuries. It is now gaining popularity and getting recognition as a herbal medicine not only in the Philippines but worldwide.Other effects observed with the use of Banaba leaf included lowering of blood cholesterol levels and the moderation of liver lipid levels. Banaba may reduce the appetite and craving for breads and sweets. Banaba contains high concentrations of dietary fiber and minerals such as z |
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It is hard and sour when it is raw. If done right, this fruit can be made into liqueurs, marmalade and preserves. It tastes like a cross between a pear and a lemon. It is actually quite good raw, but would taste better with some sugar etc. [[]]http://healthyhomegardening.com/Plant.php?pid=990[[]] |
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Pineapples are the only bromeliad fruit in widespread cultivation. It is one of the most commercially important plants which carry out CAM photosynthesis. |
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The sweetly scented flowers are used to make pot-pourri in Japan and China, where it has been cultivated for about a thousand years. This species hybridises readily with many other roses, and is valued by rose breeders for its considerable resistance to the diseases rose rust and rose black spot. It is also extremely tolerant of seaside salt spray and storms, commonly being the first shrub in from the coast. It is widely used in landscaping, being relatively tough and trouble-free. Needing littl |
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Parts used medicinally are usually twigs with both leaves and flowers, or alternatively the fruit. These are said to help blood flow. High BTU output for fires. Berries can be made into jelly, and into wines and liquors . Common hybrid is Crataegus x media (Crataegus monogyna x Crataegus laevigata) One specimen located in Norfolk, U.K. is said to have been planted in the 1300s making it over 700 years old. |
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Rose Hips are edible late in the season. If you get them too late however, they will be almost entirely seeds. |
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Maybe similar to [[]]http://healthyhomegardening.com/Plant.php?pid=122[[]] Amelanchier utahensis, the Utah serviceberry, is a shrub native to western North America. This serviceberry grows in varied habitats, from scrubby open slopes to woodlands and forests. It is a spreading plant, reaching a maximum of 5m in height. It is deciduous, bearing rounded or spade-shaped often toothed green leaves and losing them at the end of the season. In April and May the shrub blooms in short inflorescences of |
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Big Red Bud Fern Plant Cashew family The fruit has been known to last through winter and into spring. The fruit of sumacs can be collected, soaked and washed in cold water, strained, sweetened and made into a pink lemonade. The leaves and berries of staghorn sumac have been mixed with tobacco and other herbs and smoked by Native American tribes. can be used as both a natural dye. |
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