Lane Cove West Plants - Most Popular

A comprehensive guide to the fruit, nuts, bush foods and other edible plants that we grow. Includes a guide to the care and planting of fruit trees, climatic zone and essential reason for growing your own food. Excellent reference resource that we have been adding to over the last 37 years.

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	$5.00	343		Magazine	Buy 2 or more @ $2.50ea

Also known as annatto or the Lipstick tree, originates from South America and has spread in popularity to many parts of Asia. It is very popular in Philippine cooking. Grows and a dense small tree or shrub. The heart shaped fruits are brown or reddish brown at maturity, and are covered with short stiff hairs. When fully mature the fruits split open exposing the numerous dark red seeds. While the fruit itself is not edible, the orange-red pulp that covers the seed is used as a commercial food colouring and dye (similar to turmeric). The achiote dye is prepared by stirring the seeds in water,

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	$14.90	15	Seedling	Small	← FREE POSTAGE

A dwarf coffee selection suitable for handpicking. Makes an ideal selection for growing in a pot as an ornamental. Prolific cropper of quality roasting beans.

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	$17.90	129	Seedling	Medium	Buy 2 or more @ $9.75ea

The staghorn is one of the most prominent and stunning features of our native rainforest.  They are epiphytic and adorn the treetops with their spectacular foliage, they can also be lithophytic which means growing on rocks.  Each fern consists of two types of frond, the nest fronds are infertile and grow around the host tree holding the fern firmly in place as well as providing it with a nest at the top to catch falling leaves which rot down and feed the plant.  The fertile fronds are the dramatic antler shaped fronds that produce the spore, these hang down from the center of the fern. 

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	$39.00	12	Seedling	Large