Gardening

Redberry Stopper (Eugenia confusa)

Redberry stopper’s dense, glossy dark green canopy, a classic hardwood hammock tree of South Florida. Photo: Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain) Eugenia confusa, known as Redberry

Myrtle-of-the-River (Calyptranthes zuzygium)

Myrtle-of-the-river’s dense, glossy foliage and rounded crown, a rare mid-story tree of South Florida’s rockland hammocks. Photo: TreeWorld Wholesale, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0) Calyptranthes

Cinnamon Bark (Canella winterana)

Mature cinnamon bark trees forming dense, rounded crowns in a South Florida native plant garden. Photo: Katherine Wagner-Reiss, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Canella winterana,

Buccaneer Palm (Pseudophoenix sargentii)

A buccaneer palm’s slender, ringed trunk and gracefully arching fronds, photographed at a Florida botanical garden. Photo: David J. Stang, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Tough Bully (Sideroxylon tenax)

Tough Bully beginning to bloom in yellow sand scrub habitat at Carter Creek Wildlife Management Area, Florida. Photo: Dsandii, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Tawnyberry Holly (Ilex krugiana)

Ilex krugiana, commonly known as Tawnyberry Holly or Krug’s Holly, is a slender evergreen tree of South Florida’s rarest hardwood forest type: rockland hammock. In

Silk Bay (Persea humilis)

Silk Bay new growth showing the rusty, silky hairs that give this scrub endemic its name, photographed at Archbold Biological Station, Highlands County, Florida. Photo:

Common Sweetleaf (Symplocos tinctoria)

Common Sweetleaf flowering in the wild at Lorance Creek Natural Area, Pulaski County, Arkansas. Photo: Eric Hunt, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0) Symplocos tinctoria,

Bigleaf Snowbell (Styrax grandifolius)

Bigleaf Snowbell flowering in the wild in Pulaski County, Arkansas, its drooping racemes of white flowers hanging below the foliage. Photo: Eric Hunt, via Wikimedia

Seaside Alder (Alnus maritima)

Seaside alder’s glossy leaves and golden male catkins, shown here in late-season bloom. Photo: Robert H. Mohlenbrock, USDA NRCS, public domain Alnus maritima, the Seaside

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