Anastatica Hierochuntina is commonly known as Rose of Jericho. The fruit has a protuberant pod the bears…
The apple tree is a strikingly handsome tree when in flower. The apple is known as the Crab in its wild…
Apples are ready to be picked when the apples begin to fall on their own, when their seeds are plump…
The Calville Blanche Apple is best used for desserts. This apple is one of the larger varieties. This…
The Court Pendu Plat apple is used is desserts and other cooking purposes. This apple can be found November…
The Reinette Du Canada apple is used as a dessert apple. The skin is a greenish-yellow and brown color.…
Apples are prone to infestation by the codlin moth during the month of May. The moth lays its eggs in…
The apricot tree blooms during February, earlier than most fruit trees. Because apricot trees bloom…
The apricot is a stone fruit, but contains less acid than most stone fruits. Unlike other fruits, there…
Apple Berry is the common name of billardiera. The longiflora variety has greenish-yellow flowers that…
Bowiea volubilis has few flowers. The flowers grow on small stalks. True leaves are not developed for…
Types of capsicums include chili, long red, long yellow, small red cayenne, round red, and round yellow.…
Espalier is the term applied to a mode of training fruit trees in the open ground. For a single tree…
Ficus is commonly known as the fig tree. The fruit of ficus roxburghii is edible. The fruits of ficus…
Fig is a fruit producing tree. The cultivation of figs goes back to ancient times. It is native to the…
The skin of black bourjassotte figs is black. The fruit is a deep red. These figs are delicious.
Figs from the Osborn's Prolific tree are round with long necks. The skin of the fruit is a dark mahogany…
A follicle is a kind of fruit consisting of a single carpel, opening at the lower part where the pistils…
The common name of fragaria chilensis is the chili strawberry. The flowers are white and grow on thick,…
The common name of fragaria chilensis is the chili strawberry. The fruit is rose colored on the outside…
The flowers of the pine strawberry are white and frow on thick stalks. The plant grows one foot high.…
The common name of fragaria chilensis grandiflora is pine strawberry. Pine strawberries are red and…
Fragaria vesca, or wild strawberry, has white flowers. The plant grows between six and twelve inches…
Fragaria vesca, or wild strawberry, produces red fruit. The fruit is edible.
Plant protector are used in northern areas where fruit trees such as apricots and peaches are destroyed…
A portable plant and fruit protector is used for growing smaller plants in the summer and storing those…
Goat moth caterpillars are destructive to timber and fruit trees. When fully grown the caterpillar is…
The branches of the gooseberry plant help shade each other to protect the fruit. A scorching sunshine…
The fruit of the crown or custard gourd is scalloped at the edge. The fruit is produced close to the…
The fruit of the turk's cap gourd is pale green with a rounded margin. The center is elevated and marbled…
Grafting is placing two cut surfaces of one or different plants under conditions which cause them to…
The common name of halesia is silver bell or snowdrop tree. Halesia hispida flowers are white. The fruit…
The common name of halesia is silver bell or snowdrop tree. The fruit are covered with stiff, dense…
Helleborus foetidus is commonly known as bear's foot. The flowers are green with brown edged sepals.…
The common name of humulus lupulus is hop or common hop. The flowers are greenish yellow. The flowers…
The fruit of idesia polycarpa are orange and grow in drooping clusters. The fruit are pea size. The…
Juglans ailantifolia is a variety of walnut. The fruit is violet red when young. The fruit grow in clusters.
The common name of juglans cinerea is butter nut. The tree is a variety of walnut. The flowers are a…
Juglans regia is the common walnut tree. The fruit are oval with a green husk. The tree grows between…
Juglans regia elongata only differs from the common walnut tree in that the fruit of tree is very elongated.
Juglans regia longirostris are distinguished by its long beaked fruits.
The common name of juniperus is juniper. This variety of juniper has reddish, dry fruit that has a sweetish…
Juniperus drupacea is a variety of juniper. The fruit are deep purple covered with a whitish bloom.
Lagenaria vulgaris is commonly known as the bottle gourd. The flowers are large and white. The fruit…
The common name of laurus nobilis is common laurel or sweet bay tree. The flowers are yellow and inconspicuous.…
Lyda is a genus of sawflies. Lyda pyri injure plums and other stone fruit trees. The habits of the larvae…
Cudrania triloba is also know as malcura tricuspidata. Pictured is a branch of cudrania triloba in its…
Devil's Apples is the common name of mandragora vernalis. The flowers are white or bluish. Pictured…
The common name of margyricarpus is pearl fruit. The setosus variety has very small green flowers. The…
The capsules of martynia lutea flowers are similar to the fruit of cherries or plums. The capsule has…
Pictured are the flowering stem with racemose male flowers and the solitary fertiles ones from the same…
Melia azedarach floribunda is a variety with more flowers than melia azedarach. The flowers are also…
The cantaloup melon has an irregular surface and both the skin and flesh are variable in color. The…
The embroidered market melon is a netted variety. This melon bears a large nearly spherical fruit with…
The Persian melon has elongated, pear shaped fruits of medium size. This melon doesn't have ribs and…
Queen Anne's Pocket Melon is also known as the Dudaim Melon. This melon is very small and round. The…
The winter melon is the largest of the white fleshed kinds. This melon varies in size and color.
The common name of meum athamanticum is spignel. The flowers are white and grow in large umbels. The…