Showing posts with label Mosquito Repellent Trees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mosquito Repellent Trees. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Mosquito Repellent Trees Flowering Gum Tree: Eucalyptus ficifolia.

 By Liliana Usvat




Red-Flowering Gum Tree: Eucalyptus ficifolia. 

Type: Tree. Height: 25-30 feet. 

Spacing: 20-25 feet apart. 

Light Requirements: Full sun. 

Bloomtime: Year-round 


Additional Uses: After establishment in the landscape the tree is 
  • very drought tolerant, 
  • the leaves are fragrant, 
  • attracts wildlife to the garden
  • very showy red flowers in spring and summer.



Cultivation and uses In nature Corymbia ficifolia prefers infertile, sandy soils but it is readily adaptable to most temperate locations, provided it is not exposed to severe frost or sustained tropical damp. It is an ideal street tree as it is hardy, moderately fast growing, and rarely grows large enough to require pruning. 
 

The largest known single-stemmed tree in the world (216.5 cm diameter) is located on Princes Street in Hamilton, New Zealand. Because of its big and lovely colourful flowers, genetic improvement for cold resistance in Dublin area in Ireland is being carrying out by collecting seeds from Western and Southern Australia in the coldest parts of Australia where it grows. 


In Ireland most of the plants were killed by severe frosts but the surviving shoots have been kept by tissue culture.



It is difficult to graft but grows well from seed, typically taking about 7 years before it flowers for the first time and 15–20 years to reach something approaching its full size of anything between 2–8 m. 



For the home gardener, buying a "red flowering gum" from a nursery is something of an adventure: it may or may not be a ficifolia, and the flower colour does not breed true - there is no way to find out what colour the flowers will be short of planting a seedling and waiting for it to reach maturity.

Medicinal Uses


  • A tea of two or three leaves of Eucalyptus is a drink for stress, 
  • for restoring your body, and 
  • purifying your blood.  
  • it is used to make a tea to treat colds,
  •  flu, and 
  • stomach ailments.
  • To clear blocked nasal passages, inhale the steam of boiling leaves.  

Eucalyptus can cause allergic reactions in some people.

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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Mosquito Repellent Trees Clove Tree: Syzygium aromaticum Medicinal Uses

By Liliana Usvat



Clove Tree: Syzygium aromaticum. Type: Tree. Height: 20-30 feet. Spacing: 25 feet apart. Light Requirements: Full sun to partial shade. Additional Uses: The flower buds are the spice of commerce, and attracts wildlife to the garden.







The clove tree is an evergreen growing to 8–12 m tall, having large leaves and sanguine flowers grouped in terminal clusters. The flower buds are begin a pale hue before gradually become green, then transitioning to a bright red and are ready for collection. Cloves are harvested when 1.5–2 cm long, and consist of a long calyx, terminating in four spreading sepals, and four unopened petals forming a small central ball.


Uses
Cloves are used in the cuisine of Asian, African, and the Near and Middle East, lending flavour to meats, curries, and marinades, as well as compliment to fruit such as apples, pears, or rhubarb.





Traditional medicinal uses

Cloves are used in Indian Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, and western herbalism and dentistry where the essential oil is used as an anodyne (painkiller) for dental emergencies.

Cloves are used as a carminative, to increase hydrochloric acid in the stomach and to improve peristalsis. Cloves are also said to be a natural anthelmintic. The essential oil is used in aromatherapy when stimulation and warming are needed, especially for digestive problems. Topical application over the stomach or abdomen are said to warm the digestive tract. Applied to a cavity in a decayed tooth, it also relieves toothache
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In Chinese medicine cloves or ding xiang are considered acrid, warm and aromatic, entering the kidney, spleen and stomach meridians, and are notable in their ability to warm the middle, direct stomach qi downward, to treat hiccough and to fortify the kidney yang.



Because the herb is so warming it is contraindicated in any persons with fire symptoms and according to classical sources should not be used for anything except cold from yang deficiency.

 As such it is used in formulas for impotence or clear vaginal discharge from yang deficiency, for morning sickness together with ginseng and patchouli, or for vomiting and diarrhea due to spleen and stomach coldness.


Cloves may be used internally as a tea and topically as an oil for hypotonic muscles, including for multiple sclerosis.

This is also found in Tibetan medicine. Some recommend avoiding more than occasional use of cloves internally in the presence of pitta inflammation such as is found in acute flares of autoimmune diseases.

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Mosquito Repellent Trees Cadaga Tree Eucalyptus torelliana.


By Liliana Usvat
 

Cadaga Tree: Eucalyptus torelliana. Type: Tree. Height: To 80 feet. Spacing: 20-30 feet apart. Light Requirements: Full sun. Additional Uses: Attracts wildlife to the garden.



History of cultivation
Eastern Queensland, Australia. Planted in Papua New Guinea, Peninsular Malaysia, tropical Africa and India.


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Natural Habitat
E. torelliana grows in and around tropical rain forest on slopes of coastal areas.
Eastern Queensland, Australia. Planted in Papua New Guinea, Peninsular Malaysia, tropical Africa and India.










  
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