Plant Library

Adzuki Bean is a small-seeded annual legume native to East Asia, grown through a single warm season for its compact pods of tiny, often deep-red beans.

African Marigold is a warm-season flowering annual grown for its large, showy blooms in shades of yellow, orange and maroon, popular in garden beds and as a long-lasting cut flower.

African Oil Palm is a tall, single-stemmed tropical palm grown chiefly for the oil pressed from its fruit and kernels, now cultivated widely across West Africa, Southeast Asia, and other tropical regions.

Almond is a small deciduous tree grown for its edible kernel, cultivated widely in Mediterranean-type climates for food, oil and its early spring ornamental blossom.

American Oil Palm is a slow-growing palm native to Central and South America, valued for its oil-rich fruit and as breeding stock for hardier oil palm hybrids.

Amethyst Glow is a semi-evergreen cultivar of Akebia quinata, the chocolate vine, notable for its winter-purpled five-leaflet foliage and fragrant spring flowers occasionally followed by sausage-shaped purple fruit.

Amish Paste is a heirloom paste tomato preserved by Wisconsin Amish communities, valued for its unusually large, variably shaped fruit and its versatility from sauce making to fresh slicing.

Anise is an annual herb of the parsley family grown for its aromatic, licorice-scented seeds and leaves, long valued as a flavoring in cooking, baking, and spirits across the Mediterranean world.

Apple is a deciduous fruit tree grown worldwide for its crisp, edible pomes, prized as both a garden fruit tree and a flowering ornamental.

Arabica Coffee is a tropical evergreen shrub whose ripened fruits yield the seeds processed into the world's most widely traded coffee bean, grown across highland tropics from Latin America to Southeast Asia.