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trees
trees (saplings or seeds) to have/order
NUT
- chestnut
- Moringa [good cultivar, see vid]
- Brazil nut tree
- cocoa [Ariba Nacional]
- marula
- coffee [chiapas]
- argan
- filbert
- almond
- coconut palm
- Chilean wine / coquito palm
- black walnut [for iodine, thyroid, and against parasites]
- Great Basin Bristlecone Pine for longevity pine nuts
OIL/SAP/other
- argan
- olive
- maple sugar/hard/rock or red maple variety [in NL bestellen] Ebay
- rubber
- acacia senegal order
- cork oak
- baobab (6,000 Year Old Tree)
- tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia)
- Chinese Lacquer Tree
- Shorea - Dammar resin
- terebinth (turpentine tree)
- Cinnamon (for the spice [inner bark])
- neem or margosa
- banyan?
- pine [for many many things! See this vid]
- Russian Olive [fruit & permaculture]
- White Leadtree (Leucaena leucocephala) [permaculture]
- Pithecellobium dulce [permaculture + hedge] also see
- Casuarina [hedges]
- Paulownia (Smaragdfa [extremely fast-growing cultivar])
TIMBER
- Black Locust [Robinia pseudoacacia] extremely hard [perhaps harder than hickory], won't rot (underground), grows fast, burns well, good shade, nitrogen fixing
- sequoia bestel
- acacia
- oak
- bamboo [species] bestel
- cedar
- sandalwood
- willow [Osier]
- Eucalyptus [Mountain Ash/Victorian Ash/Swamp Gum/Tasmanian Oak/Stringy Gum]
- Hickory, Shagbark [also for nuts and a syrup similar to maple] bestel
- Balsa
- Yew
- Acacia magium drought resistant,binds sterile mine waste,able to fix nitrogen, hardwood, fire-retardent
- cyprus [Cupressus lusitanica, a drought-tolerant species from Mexico]
FRUIT
- ciruela / hog plum
- apple
- apricot
- cherry
- chimoya
- camu camu
- date palm
- durian
- grape
- grapefruit
- lemon
- olive
- orange
- Pomegranate
- prune
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Moringa
Have you ever heard of the Moringa tree? treesforlife.org and miracletrees.org. I read a book about this tree over a year ago in Puerto Rico. Scientists discovered that it has more nutritional value than just about any food out there.
I think we can root from a portion of the moringa tree, but people usually start it at seed. I think it would be good to just ship the seeds in bulk. I have read that it is a good fence because it grows very fast. Probably one of the fastest growing trees alive.
[from Sarah]
Jim Humble on the Moringa
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7 Fastest Growing Tropical Fruit Trees that will Produce Fruit in Under 3 Years
- papaya
- fig
- dragon fruit
- cape gooseberry
- passion fruit
- banana
- pineapple
dragon fruit
cape gooseberry
passion fruit
website with pointers and explanations
wood species and strength
David Wolfe talks about surrounding trees with logs and leaves and such to promote fungal growth around the tree.
Also that lower branches need to be cleared [what deer would naturally do] so wind can blow through the trees.
In this vid with Paul Wheaton [permaculture guru] he explains that trees naturally develop tap roots that go very deep and draw water from deep down BUT that is you water that tree it will drop it's tap root and you'll be forced to keep watering it or it will die.
The folks at Groasis explain that the tap root is very special and capable of pushing it's way through solid rock. Therefore trees need to either be sown on the spot or properly grown, i.e. without making the taproot turn up- or sidewards.
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hardy species
avocado: persea americana - mexicola grande
figs
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FAST [under 3 years]:
- papaya [get non-GMO]
- fig [390 types!]
- dragon fruit [get yellow ones]
- cape gooseberry
- (Jamaican) passion fruit
- bananas
- pineapple
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variety
Some people may not realize that fruit can be had all through the year. Like in the above chart, this farmer at a farmer's market near Los Angeles has many different varieties of tangerine so he can sell them almost all year round.
You can have peaches from April through November, etc. etc. etc.
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palm trees
Date palms
This is a good article on date palms.
- 8 to 10 years (or more) to fruit
- must have female and a male in the vicinity
- hybridize easily (so important to keep seeds separate)
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applications
Trees and Green Wood Working
- pine
- oak
- yellow poplar [magnolia species]
- willow
- sassafrass
[alternatively: hickory/black walnut/ash for hardwood]
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