{"title":"Pollinator \u0026 Wildlife Habitat Tree Seeds","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"102\" data-start=\"71\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-end=\"102\" data-start=\"71\"\u003eBring Your Backyard to Life\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"310\" data-start=\"104\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe best wildlife habitat starts with native trees. A single mature oak can support over 500 species of caterpillars alone. Caterpillars are the foundation of the food chain for songbirds. This collection turns your yard, property, or restoration site into a living, breathing ecosystem. These pollinator tree seeds and wildlife habitat trees are selected for their value to bees, butterflies, birds, and mammals. American Elderberry feeds over 50 bird species. Eastern Redbud is one of the earliest blooming native trees and a critical early-season nectar source for pollinators. Serviceberry bridges the gap between spring bloom and summer fruit for both wildlife and humans. If you are looking to buy native tree seeds for habitat or grow pollinator plants from seed, this collection is the backbone of a functioning ecosystem.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"310\" data-start=\"104\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Species include: American Elderberry, Eastern Redbud, Serviceberry, Ironwood, Buttonbush, American Holly, Black Cherry, and more. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"310\" data-start=\"104\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlant a tree. Feed a forest.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"persimmon-tree-seeds","title":"Common Persimmon Tree Seeds | American Persimmon | (Diospyros virginiana)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNative fruit that deer eat first. Humans eat second. And never forget.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDiospyros virginiana\u003c\/em\u003e, the Common Persimmon, is the most undervalued native fruit tree in North America. When ripe, the small orange fruits have a rich, jammy sweetness that has been compared to dates and honey, intensified further after frost. Before they ripen, they are jaw-clenchingly astringent in a way that is impossible to forget. The tree that produces them is one of the toughest, most drought-tolerant, and most adaptable native trees available, growing on poor rocky soils, in abandoned fields, and along roadsides where nothing else bothers to try. And every deer, turkey, fox, raccoon, and opossum within range will know when your persimmons are ripe before you do. If you are looking to buy Persimmon seeds or grow native persimmon from seed, this is a tree that rewards patience with one of the most distinctive fruits in North American horticulture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eNative fruit tree with intensely sweet, honey-like flavor when fully ripe after frost\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eOne of the most drought-tolerant and adaptable native fruit trees in eastern North America\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eDeer candy, the fruits are among the most sought-after wildlife food available on any property\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eExtremely long-lived with a deep taproot that makes established trees nearly impossible to kill\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eDioecious, plant male and female trees for reliable fruit production\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eThings you probably did not know about the Common Persimmon\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Algonquian word for it became the English name.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  The word persimmon comes from the Algonquian word putchamin or pessamin, meaning a dry fruit. The fruit was a significant food source for Indigenous peoples across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic, eaten fresh, dried, and ground into a meal that was mixed with cornmeal and fat for cakes and bread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe green fruit can pucker your mouth for hours.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  Unripe persimmons contain soluble tannins that bind to saliva proteins and create an intensely dry, astringent sensation that no amount of water relieves. The experience is so striking that encountering an unripe persimmon is the kind of thing people remember for decades. Ripe fruit, by contrast, is among the sweetest of any native fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA single tree can fruit for 75 years or more.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  Common Persimmon trees are extremely long-lived and continue fruiting prolifically well into old age. Trees planted for wildlife management in the mid-20th century are still producing heavy crops today. Few fruit trees offer the same longevity without replanting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is nearly impossible to transplant once established.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  The deep, brittle taproot of the Common Persimmon makes it one of the most difficult native trees to dig and move once it has established. 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Just wait until after the first frost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Evergreen Seed Co.","offers":[{"title":"5 Seeds","offer_id":50593428734274,"sku":"PERSIMMON-5","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"10 Seeds","offer_id":50593428767042,"sku":"PERSIMMON-10","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"25 Seeds","offer_id":50593428799810,"sku":"PERSIMMON-25","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"40 Seeds","offer_id":50593428832578,"sku":"PERSIMMON-40","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100 Seeds","offer_id":50593428865346,"sku":"PERSIMMON-100","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/5456\/4674\/files\/fcc23016-il_fullxfull.6478341334_s0we.jpg?v=1747137477"},{"product_id":"flowering-almond-tree-seeds","title":"Flowering Almond Tree Seeds | (Prunus triloba)","description":"\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePink ruffled flowers. 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The fully doubled form was developed through centuries of selection from the single-flowered wild species and became one of the defining ornamental plants of the traditional Chinese garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe flowers appear on the previous year's wood before any new growth begins.\u003c\/strong\u003e Flowering Almond blooms on one-year-old wood, which is why the flowers appear on bare stems before any new leaves emerge. This characteristic means that heavy pruning after bloom, rather than in late winter, is essential to preserving next year's flowering wood. Plants pruned in late winter will lose all of their bloom for that season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt blooms so early it sometimes opens during late winter warm spells in zone 5 and 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e In years with extended late winter warm periods, Flowering Almond can begin opening flowers in February in zone 6, creating a pink display against possible late snow that is genuinely startling in its early arrival. This extremely early blooming timing is part of its value as a garden plant and also its occasional vulnerability to late frost damage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fruit that follows the flowers is edible.\u003c\/strong\u003e Small red-orange cherries ripen on Flowering Almond in summer and while they are not particularly flavorful when eaten raw, they are relished by birds and can be used in jams and preserves. 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Birds spread the seeds widely, allowing it to establish where most trees cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eGrowing Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBotanical Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Juniperus virginiana\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eStratification:\u003c\/strong\u003e Required; 60–120 days cold moist stratification\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUSDA Zones:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2–9\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSoil:\u003c\/strong\u003e Extremely adaptable; tolerates poor, dry, rocky, or alkaline soils\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLight:\u003c\/strong\u003e Full sun\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 40–50 feet\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSpread:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8–20 feet\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGrowth Rate:\u003c\/strong\u003e Slow to moderate (1–2 ft\/year)\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003ePlant it where nothing else will grow and watch it quietly become essential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Evergreen Seed Co.","offers":[{"title":"5 Seeds","offer_id":50593429553474,"sku":"EREDCEDAR-5","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"10 Seeds","offer_id":50593429586242,"sku":"EREDCEDAR-10","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"25 Seeds","offer_id":50593429619010,"sku":"EREDCEDAR-25","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"40 Seeds","offer_id":50593429651778,"sku":"EREDCEDAR-40","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"100 Seeds","offer_id":50593429684546,"sku":"EREDCEDAR-100","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"500 Seeds","offer_id":51499233706306,"sku":"EREDCEDAR-500","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/5456\/4674\/files\/3895a912-il_fullxfull.6794490733_o33i.jpg?v=1747137477"},{"product_id":"black-mulberry-tree-seeds","title":"Black Mulberry Tree Seeds | Black Persian Mulberry | (Morus nigra)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-description\"\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe sweetest fruit you have never tasted. 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The wood was sold as souvenirs and relics for decades afterward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt stains so intensely the dye was used in textiles and inks for centuries.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  The deep purple-red juice of Black Mulberries was used as a fabric dye and writing ink across the ancient world. The staining is so persistent that fresh fruit should be harvested over a tarpaulin and eaten with abandon rather than caution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fruit cannot be commercially shipped.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  Black Mulberries are too soft and perishable to survive the handling required for commercial distribution. They begin to ferment within hours of picking. The only way most people will ever taste a truly ripe Black Mulberry is to grow one. 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If you are looking to buy American Hazelnut seeds or grow this native nut shrub from seed, nothing else produces edible nuts this quickly and this reliably in the eastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBegins producing edible hazelnuts within 3 to 5 years of planting, faster than any nut tree\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eSpreads by root suckers to form dense wildlife thickets providing cover and food\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eTolerates shade, poor soils, wet sites, and dry slopes with exceptional adaptability\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eNative across the eastern United States and Great Lakes region, extremely cold-hardy to zone 4\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eCatkins provide one of the earliest pollen sources of spring for native bees emerging from winter dormancy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThings you probably did not know about the American Hazelnut\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndigenous peoples selected and managed hazelnut groves for thousands of years.\u003c\/strong\u003e Archaeological evidence from sites across the eastern United States shows hazelnut shells in abundance, indicating that hazelnuts were a major caloric food source in pre-contact North America. Many Native American communities actively managed hazelnut thickets by burning them on rotation to encourage vigorous new growth and higher nut production. The hazelnuts were eaten fresh, dried for winter storage, and ground into a flour used in soups and porridges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe catkins open before any leaves emerge and before most insects are active.\u003c\/strong\u003e American Hazelnut is wind-pollinated, releasing pollen from its dangling catkins in late winter and early spring when temperatures barely rise above freezing. The tiny, bright red female flowers that receive the pollen are almost invisible to the naked eye. The entire pollination event happens in a few weeks before most gardeners notice anything is happening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA single hazelnut provides more energy per gram than a handful of blueberries.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hazelnuts are roughly 60 percent fat, primarily heart-healthy oleic acid, and contain significant protein, Vitamin E, and B vitamins. They are among the most calorie-dense whole foods produced by any native plant, which is why wildlife compete for them so intensively in the weeks before they ripen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt can be coppiced for wildlife cover and increased nut production.\u003c\/strong\u003e American Hazelnut cut to the ground re-sprouts vigorously within a single season, producing dense multi-stemmed regrowth that provides superior nesting cover for ground-nesting birds. Coppicing on a 5 to 10 year rotation cycle also tends to increase nut production on the regrowth compared to older stems. 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The seeds can travel 30 to 40 feet from the parent plant in a single ejection. This ballistic dispersal mechanism has been studied by mechanical engineers for its elegant natural spring design.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe witch in the name has nothing to do with witchcraft.\u003c\/strong\u003e The name derives from the Old English word wiche or wych, meaning flexible or pliant, describing the bendable quality of the branches. This same root gives us the wych elm of Britain. 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They are the oldest of the Washington cherry trees and represent an unbroken living connection to the original gift that created one of the most famous spring destinations in the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHigan means other shore in Japanese.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Higan Cherry is named after the Buddhist festival of Higan, observed twice yearly at the spring and autumn equinoxes, a time of reflection on the passage to the other shore of existence. The cherry blossoms, blooming at the spring equinox, were associated with the transience of beauty and life that is central to Japanese Buddhist philosophy. 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More beautiful than any of them.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrunus serrulata var. spontanea\u003c\/em\u003e, the Japanese Mountain Cherry or Hill Cherry, is the wild species from which virtually all of Japan's celebrated ornamental cherry cultivars descend, the original flowering cherry that has grown on mountain slopes and forested hillsides across Japan for thousands of years and inspired centuries of horticulture, art, and poetry. While the cultivated varieties bred from it are spectacular, the wild species has qualities they cannot match: natural grace, unpredictable variation in flower color from white through pale pink, deep pink, and near-red, brilliant fall color in copper and crimson, and a rootedness in the landscape that grafted nursery trees with their controlled genetics never quite achieve. 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The earliest hanami celebrations were held beneath wild mountain plum and later wild cherry trees growing on hillsides and in temple gardens, not beneath the cultivated varieties that line city parks today. The wild species carries the original meaning of the tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThousands of named varieties of ornamental cherry were selected from its seedlings over centuries.\u003c\/strong\u003e Japanese horticulturists working over many generations selected, named, and propagated flowering cherry varieties from spontanea seedlings that showed desirable characteristics. The Yoshino Cherry, the most widely planted ornamental cherry in the world, is believed to be a hybrid derived from spontanea as one parent. Every flowering cherry in Washington DC's famous collection traces back to this wild species.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe wood is used in traditional Japanese lacquerware and woodworking.\u003c\/strong\u003e Japanese Cherry wood, called yamazakura, is prized by craftspeople for its fine grain, warm pink-brown tone, and ability to take a high polish. Traditional Japanese lacquerware chests, sliding door panels, and decorative woodwork frequently use yamazakura as a substrate. The wood's natural color deepens with age into a rich reddish-brown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEach seed-grown tree is genetically unique.\u003c\/strong\u003e Unlike the grafted nursery cherries that fill park plantings, every tree grown from spontanea seed expresses its own combination of characteristics. Flower color, bloom time, tree form, fall color, and growth habit all vary independently between individual seedlings. 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The most dramatic spring display in the Mediterranean garden.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCercis siliquastrum, the Judas Tree, is the Old World counterpart of the Eastern Redbud, a Mediterranean and Middle Eastern native that produces one of the most dramatic spring flowering displays of any ornamental tree, covering its bare trunk, branches, and twigs in dense clusters of intense purple-pink flowers that emerge directly from the wood in a phenomenon called cauliflory, the same trait as Redbud but displayed even more intensely on a tree that has been cultivated in gardens for over 2,000 years. The flowers appear in early to mid-spring before the heart-shaped leaves, covering every surface from the highest branch to the base of the trunk in a purple-pink cloud that is visible from considerable distances. It is more drought-tolerant than Eastern Redbud, better suited to alkaline soils, and more adapted to hot, dry Mediterranean-style climates. If you are looking to buy Judas Tree seeds or grow this Mediterranean native from seed, this is the spring tree for dry, warm-climate gardens where Eastern Redbud underperforms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eDense clusters of intense purple-pink flowers covering trunk, branches, and twigs in early spring before leaves\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eMore drought-tolerant and alkaline-soil-adapted than Eastern Redbud, better for Mediterranean climates\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHeart-shaped leaves following the flowers in a clean green that holds through summer\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFlat, ornamental seed pods that persist through winter providing additional seasonal interest\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHas been cultivated in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern gardens for over 2,000 years\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThings you probably did not know about the Judas Tree\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe legend that Judas Iscariot hanged himself from this tree is almost certainly false but the name persisted for a specific reason.\u003c\/strong\u003e The tree that bore Judas is the legendary source of the common name, but botanists and biblical scholars agree the Judas Tree does not grow in the regions of the Levant where the events described in the New Testament took place. The more likely origin of the name is a corruption of the French name Arbre de Judée, meaning tree of Judea, which referred to the tree's association with the region of the Middle East rather than any specific person. Arbre de Judée became Judas Tree in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe flowers are edible and have been eaten in Mediterranean cuisines for centuries.\u003c\/strong\u003e Judas Tree flowers have a slightly tart, slightly sweet flavor with a fresh acidity and have been used in Mediterranean cooking as a salad ingredient, a garnish, and a flavor accent in spring dishes for centuries. In Turkey and Lebanon, the flowers are eaten raw in salads, battered and fried, or pickled in vinegar as a condiment. The young seed pods are also edible when very young and tender, prepared similarly to snow peas in some regional traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt was one of the most important ornamental trees in ancient Rome and Persia.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Judas Tree appears in Roman and Persian garden records and is described by classical authors as one of the most beautiful spring-flowering trees in the Mediterranean landscape. Gardens of the Islamic Golden Age in Andalusia and Persia featured it prominently, and its use in formal garden design influenced the European garden tradition when Renaissance travelers returned from the Middle East with descriptions and seeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe tree produces flowers before it produces leaves because it experiences spring warming before the soil has warmed enough for root activity to supply leaf production.\u003c\/strong\u003e The early spring temperature increase warms the above-ground wood of Judas Tree sufficiently to trigger flowering before the soil at root level has reached temperatures that drive significant water and nutrient uptake. 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If you are looking to buy Black Cherry seeds or grow cherry trees from seed, this is the species that does the most ecological work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eSmall dark cherries eaten by over 70 bird species during migration, one of the most important wildlife food trees in the East\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eFragrant white flower racemes in spring attract native bees, butterflies, and pollinators\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eHost plant for Eastern Tiger Swallowtail caterpillars and over 200 other insect species\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eOne of the most valuable domestic cabinet and furniture woods in North America\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eFast-growing, adaptable native tree thriving across a wide range of soils and sites\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n  \u003ch3\u003eThings you probably did not know about the Black Cherry\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe wood has been called the American mahogany.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  Black Cherry timber develops a rich reddish-brown color that deepens with age and light exposure. It was the primary material for American furniture and cabinetry in the 18th and 19th centuries, prized for its smooth grain, attractive color, and ease of working. Antique American furniture identified as cherry is almost always Black Cherry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fruit is mildly toxic when not fully ripe.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  The unripe fruit and wilted leaves of Black Cherry contain cyanogenic compounds that are toxic to horses and livestock. Ripe fruit is safe for wildlife and humans, and has been used for centuries to make cherry bounce, a whiskey-soaked preserve popular in colonial America. The key is knowing which stage you are dealing with.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is one of the most important trees for fall migration.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  Warblers, thrushes, vireos, and dozens of other migratory songbirds time their fall migration routes to coincide with Black Cherry fruit ripening. 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Indigenous peoples in the Gulf Coast region crushed the leaves and rubbed them on their skin and on horses during summer. Modern researchers took that traditional knowledge seriously enough to fund a full chemical analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe berries persist on the stems after the leaves drop.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  When frost takes the leaves in late fall, the brilliant berries remain attached to the bare stems, creating an even more dramatic display against the gray and brown of the late season landscape. Birds that ignored the plant during summer suddenly discover it in October and return repeatedly until every berry is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt can grow 6 feet in a single season.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n  American Beautyberry is one of the fastest-establishing native shrubs available in the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic. 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If you are looking to buy Blue Elderberry seeds or grow western elderberry from seed, this is the native shrub that does more per square foot than almost anything else in a western garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eHeavy clusters of blue-black berries with silvery waxy bloom, distinctive and beautiful in late summer\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eWhite flower clusters in early summer attract native bees, wasps, beetles, and butterflies\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eBerries eaten by over 40 bird species and important mammals across the Pacific Coast and Rocky Mountain region\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eFast-growing native shrub beginning to fruit within 2 to 3 years of planting\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eUsed for elderberry syrup, wine, jelly, and juice in the same tradition as the eastern species\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThings you probably did not know about the Blue Elderberry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt was one of the most important plants in the material culture of Pacific Coast Indigenous peoples.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Blue Elderberry was used for food, medicine, and tools by virtually every Indigenous nation across its range from British Columbia to Baja California. 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This nutritional density makes it critically important to long-distance migrants including wood thrushes, veeries, Swainson's thrushes, and gray-cheeked thrushes that are completing their fueling for flights to Central and South America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt is dioecious, with male and female trees, but the sexes look identical until fruiting age.\u003c\/strong\u003e Black Tupelo is technically dioecious with male and female flowers on separate trees, though some individuals produce both male and some perfect flowers. Seed-grown trees cannot be sexed until they reach flowering maturity, which typically occurs at 5 to 10 years from seed. Female trees produce the fruit, which requires at least one male or hermaphroditic tree nearby for pollination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe brilliant fall color is the result of exceptional anthocyanin production.\u003c\/strong\u003e Black Tupelo is among the earliest and most prolific producers of anthocyanin pigments in fall, the red and purple compounds that develop as chlorophyll breaks down. The intensity of the color is partly genetic and partly environmental, with cold nights and warm sunny days triggering the strongest displays. 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It still flowers every spring. It was growing before the American Revolution and has outlasted every human being who ever owned the property.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalt Whitman used lilacs as the central symbol of his elegy for Abraham Lincoln.\u003c\/strong\u003e When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed is considered one of the finest poems in American literature. Whitman chose lilacs not because of any personal association with Lincoln but because the lilacs were blooming across the country on the day Lincoln was shot in April 1865, and the scent became permanently associated in his memory with the moment the news arrived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe fragrance is produced by a compound called lilial.\u003c\/strong\u003e The characteristic scent of Lilac flowers comes primarily from indole, lilial, and farnesol, compounds that are extremely difficult to stabilize in commercial perfumery. 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Anyone caught attempting to smuggle silkworm eggs or White Mulberry seeds out of the country faced execution. The monopoly on silk production was one of the most consequential trade advantages in ancient history. The secret finally escaped when two Nestorian monks allegedly smuggled silkworm eggs out of China in hollow walking staffs around 550 AD.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe berries stain so deeply that silk dyers in medieval Europe used them as a colorant.\u003c\/strong\u003e White Mulberry berries, despite their name, often ripen to pink, lavender, and dark purple, producing juice with strong staining properties. Medieval European dyers used mulberry juice to color cloth and the berries were eaten as a food dye across the ancient world. 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The pattern of Chickasaw Plum distribution across the southeastern United States reflects both natural spread and deliberate human planting over centuries, making it difficult to determine where its natural range ends and its anthropogenic range begins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe thorns make the thickets essentially impenetrable to larger predators.\u003c\/strong\u003e Chickasaw Plum thorns are sharp, straight, and densely spaced along the stems in a way that deters any mammal larger than a rabbit from pushing through a mature thicket. Northern bobwhite quail, which require dense low cover for roosting and escape, are particularly dependent on Chickasaw Plum thickets in the southern states where habitat management for quail specifically includes maintaining Chickasaw Plum patches for this reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe early bloom provides the first significant nectar of the year for native bees.\u003c\/strong\u003e In warm years Chickasaw Plum begins blooming in late February or early March in its southernmost range, providing the first major nectar source of the season for queen bumblebees, mining bees, and other early-emerging native bee species. 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Black-chinned, Broad-tailed, and Rufous Hummingbirds visit Desert Willow repeatedly throughout the day during bloom periods, and the tree often hosts multiple individuals simultaneously competing for nectar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe seed pods were used as a percussion instrument.\u003c\/strong\u003e The long, slender seed pods of Desert Willow dry on the tree through winter and rattle audibly in the wind, a characteristic that gave the tree musical utility. Indigenous peoples of the Chihuahuan desert used dried Desert Willow pods as rattles in ceremonial contexts, and the sound of a Desert Willow thicket in winter wind is distinctive enough to be used for navigation by experienced desert travelers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt was the medicine chest of the Chihuahuan desert tribes.\u003c\/strong\u003e Desert Willow was used medicinally across virtually every Indigenous group within its range. 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