Fruit & Nuts

The deciduous almond tree’s fruit is a drupe, encased by an outer hull containing a woody shell. Within the genus Prunus, it is classified with the peach in the subgenus Amygdalus, Almonds trees produce very sweet blossoms in the spring, to attract the bees for pollination. Don’t be alarmed if your trees are crawling with bees. That’s what you want.

Sturdy trees that provides shade as well as a bounty of delicious fruit that are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus

The apricot tree (Prunus armeniaca) is healthy and delicious. Apricots are stone fruit (drupes) that are smaller than peaches, softer than plums. It’s best to find good fruit shopping at the peak of their season. In the Northern Hemisphere, they are in season mid-May through mid-August. In the Southern Hemisphere, they are in season November through January. Growing your own, you need two trees that are different varieties of the same fruit species to cross pollinate because two trees of the same variety will not.

Aronia is a genus of perennial deciduous shrubs, the chokeberries, in the familyRosaceae most commonly found in wet woods and swamps. This superfruit is grown for its beauty asan ornamental with deep green foliage as backdrop for its pretty white flowers in the spring, and withthe contrast of its deep purple berries nestled into its red-orange leaves in the fall.

Known as Persea Americanus serves well raw in mixed greens and guacamole and has a lot of nourishment so some us will eat it alone like an apple. You can grow this fantastic food from itsseed that you would usually just discard.

While banana plants are technically perennial herbs, Bananas are not real trees, noteven palm trees, even though they are often called banana palms. Some varieties and individualscan reach 7.6 m (25ft.) in height. Banana trunks consists of all the leaf stalks wrapped around eachother. New leaves start growing inside, below the ground. They push up through the middle andemerge from the center of the crown. So does the flower, which finally turns into a bunch ofbananas.

A common deciduous tree in forests, the beech tree has a trunk with smooth gray bark,2- to 3-feet in diameter. The leaves are up to 5 inches across, oval or elliptical in shape, dark greenin color with prominent veins that end in toothy edges. Yellowish green flowers appear in April toMay, and the female flowers give way to triangular- shaped beechnuts. The foliage turns goldenbronze in fall. This is a large tree, often growing to 80 feet or even more. Although sometimes used as a landscape tree, the American beech is not well suited to urbanconditions; it does not

A perennial shrub in the family Rosaceae that is grown for its aggregate black fruit.Though they grow wild in many areas of the world, the cultivated varieties produce distinctively darkberries that are juicy and sweet, and usually larger than their wild cousins.Traditional training varieties grow much like the wild blackberry, shooting out suckersand sprawling all over the place, which means they’ll need to be trellised with wires andtrained along them to control the growth. Old fruiting canes will need to be removed, butnew primocanes (new growth) will not need to be pruned. Trailing varieties oftenstruggle in regions with especially

Bees and wind help Blueberry (Vaccinium corymbosum) bushes to cross-pollinate.Blueberries have both male and female organs on the same flower, but not all are self- pollinating. Ifyou want to be sure that your blueberries will be pollinated, plant different varieties within 100 feet(30.5 m) of each other. Doing so allows bees to travel between plants and cross-pollinate. Highbush is the most common type of blueberry and it yields large, dark berries onbushes six to eight feet tall. The Lowbush super-hardy variety grows low to the ground between 6and 18 inches tall. If you do not have a lot of

Shepherdia is dioecious and called bullberry or buffaloberry (a genus of shrubs in theElaeagnaceae family). The plants are native to northern and western North America. Also calledsakakawea silver buffaloberry is with silvery, oblong leaves and predominantly red fruit and is winterhardy, drought and alkali tolerant, and is recommended for conservation use in multi-row farmsteadand field windbreaks, wildlife habitat. Native Americans worked mostly with the Russet Buffaloberry.