Rare Collector Plants

Family:  Araliaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: Taiwan
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Part shade
Height: 15'
Attracts:  NA
Attributes:  Evergreen. Narrow leaflets, giving a whorled texture.  Upright trunk branching with age. 
Notes: A very hardy and tropical looking species coming from high elevations in the mountains of Taiwan.  These have had no dammage with temperatures to around 5 degrees.

Pot Size:  Quart Pot

Family:  Schisandraceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 30'
Attracts:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous vine.  Reddish orange mini-Magnolia-like flowers with dangling clusters of red fruit when pollinated.
Notes: In the wild Magnolia Vines are found growing in forests, thickets.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family: Hamamelidaceae
Zone: 7-10
Natural Range: China; Gansu, Henan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Sichuan
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Sun, part shade
Height: 10' - 20'
Bloom Time: May
Attributes: Deciduous, shrub or small tree.  Ovate, green leaves to 6" long, dentate margins.  Pendulous racemes of apetalous green flower.  Male catkins 2.5" long and female to 1.25" long, elongating to 6" long as black seed capsules form.
Notes:  A monotypic genus native to forests of China where it is a near threatened species.

Pot Size: Large Band Pot

Family:  Styracaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 20'
Bloom Time: May  to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  Large foliage with fragrant white flowers in showy clusters.
Notes: Fuzzy leaves that are much larger than other Styrax.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot

Family:  Styracaceae
Zone: 6 - 9
Natural Range: China
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 20'
Bloom Time: May  to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  White bell flowers in racemes.
Notes: A Far Reaches Farm and Steve Hootman of the Rhododendron Species Foundation collection of beautiful Styrax from Guizhou China.  Was sold as Styrax japonicus but has been identified as

Pot Size:  Medium Band Pot

Family:  Styracaceae
Zone: 7 - 9
Natural Range: China; Western Sichuan
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 9'
Bloom Time: May  to June
Attributes: Deciduous.  White flowers in racemes of 3-5. 
Notes: Smaller species that is known for its free-flowering habit.  In the wild S. wilsonii grows on scrubby, rocky hillsides and along stream banks between 1300 - 1700 m.  Rare species offered, limited numbers available.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot 18" - 24"

Family:  Malvaceae
Zone:  6 - 9
Natural Range:  China
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part shade
Height:  15'- 30'
Bloom Time:  June
Attracts:  Birds, Butterflies
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Pale gray, scaly bark.  New growth is pinkish orange becoming green above and paler beneath.  Toothed margins.  Fragrant white flower bracts.
Notes:   Quite hard to find in cultivation. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Malvaceae
Zone:  7 - 9
Natural Range:  Japan
Soil:  Average, humus rich
Light:  Sun, part shade
Height:  15'- 30'
Bloom Time:  June
Attracts:  Birds, Butterflies
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Distinct small, narrow, short-stalked leaves.
Notes:   Quite hard to find in cultivation. 

Pot Size:  1 Gallon Pot

Family:  Melanthiaceae
Zone: 5 - 9
Natural Range: PNW; Oregon, California
Soil:  Moist, humus rich, well drained
Light: Part shade
Height: 14"
Bloom Time:  March to May
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Large mottled foliage.  Early spring blooming.  Sessile blooms that are white in color, or some times pink at the base.
Notes: Great foliage.  One or two more years to bloom.

Pot Size:  4" Band Pot

Family:  Ulmaceae
Zone:  4 - 9
Natural Range:  China, Korea, Japan
Soil:  Average, drought tolerant
Light:  Sun, part shade
Height:  3’
Bloom Time:  NA
Attracts:  NA
Pest Resistance:  Air Pollution
Attributes:  Deciduous.  Dwarf form with corky bark and small glossy green leaves.  Insignificant, small reddish flowers in summer.  Flat Samara like seeds.
Notes:   Slow growing and often used in rock gardens and bonsai.  

Pot Size:  Quart Pot

Family:  Ericaceae
Zone:  8 - 10
Natural Range:  Himalayas
Soil:  Average, moist well drained, humus rich
Light:part sun, shade
Height:  8"
Bloom Time:  March to April
Attracts:  Bees
Pest Resistance:  NA
Attributes:  Evergreen, small rounded leaves.  Pinkish white flowers with black fruit.
Notes:  Introduced by Steve Hootman of the Rhododendron Species Botanic Garden.  In the wild this species grows as an epiphyte in mossy, rotting logs.
 
Pot size: 4" Band Pot

Family:  Cupressaceae
Zone: 7 - 10
Natural Range: Vietnam
Soil: Average to moist, humus rich
Light: Part sun to sun
Height: 50'
Bloom Time: NA
Attributes: Evergreen.  Pyramidal, becoming irregular and flat-topped with age.  Juvenile and transitional foliage present. 
Notes: Recently discovered species named in 2002, resulting in a new genus of Xanthocyparis.  Only a few hundred trees remain in the wild.  In its native habitat X. vietnamensis grows in mixed forests between 1,060 - 1180 m elevations.  Should prove to be much hardier.

Pot Size:  Large Band Pot