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• Yew
  * Any of various coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus ''[[Taxus]]'': ** Florida Yew (''[[Taxus floridana]]'')
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• Poinciana
  ...arge and very showy flowers; one of the most conspicuous trees in southern Florida and the American tropics. ...ed in the Old World, but is not in the American trade. It reaches a height of 20- 30ft., with the petals scarcely exserted beyond the calyx.
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• Mangrove
  ...ww.nhmi.org/mangroves/phy.htm Morphological and Physiological Adaptations: Florida mangrove website.]</ref> ...the [[Rhizophoraceae]], or even more specifically just for mangrove trees of the genus ''[[Rhizophora]]''.
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• Swietenia
  ...k diameter. The [[leaf|leaves]] are 10-30 cm long, pinnate, with 3-6 pairs of leaflets, the terminal leaflet absent; each leaflet is 5-15 cm long. The le ...Trees, sometimes grown in the warmhouse, one of them yielding the mahogany of commerce: lvs. even-pinnate, very glabrous; lfts. opposite, petioled, obliq
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• Garuga
  ...ated in southern Florida and California for its fruits, which are the size of a gooseberry, and are eaten raw, but chiefly pickled. ...large, panicled; calyx bell-shaped, 5-cut; petals 5, inserted on the tube of the calyx above the middle; stamens 10; ovary 4-5-celled; ovules in pairs:
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• Kydia
  ...). Malvaceae. Oriental trees, one of which has been cultivated in southern Florida and southern California. *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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• Vangueria
  ...dagascan name of V. madagascariensis is Voa-Vanguer). Rubiaceae. Shrubs or trees, sometimes spiny or somewhat climbing in habit, adapted to the warmhouse an ...subtropical regions of the world, Austral. excepted. Considered a section of Epimedium by Prantl, in Engler & Prantl, Pflanzenreich III. 2.
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• Metrosideros fulgens
  ...ber," writes Cheeseman in the New Zeal. Flora, "reaching the tops of lofty trees:" lvs. opposite, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, veiny, glabrous: fls. yellowish r *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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• Brunfelsia
  ...''' is a [[genus]] of about 40 species of [[neotropical]] shrubs and small trees. ...ickets. Species in cultivation include ''[[Brunfelsia americana]]'' ("lady of the night") and ''[[Brunfelsia pauciflora]]''. Linnaeus named the genus for
  3 KB (453 words) - 16:54, 18 February 2010
• Morinda
  ...plants, sometimes seen far South; one species has been planted in southern Florida and southern California. ...berries, in the head. — -Some of the species yield dyes. The frs. of some of them are edible. One species, M. Roioc, Linn., is native in Fla., extending
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• Stauntonia
  '''''Stauntonia''''' is a [[genus (biology)|genus]] of [[flowering plant]] in the [[Lardizabalaceae]] family. ...the beautiful Kadsura japonica are valuable additions to the garden flora of the southern states.
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• Moulds
  ...and trees; Meliola Penzigii causes considerable injury to citrus trees in Florida by coating the leaves and fruit. The numerous forms occurring in the tropic *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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• Limequat
  ...ross between the [[Lime (fruit)|lime]] and the [[kumquat]]. It is a member of [[citrofortunella]]. ...rind can be used to flavour drinks and dishes. It has considerable amounts of [[vitamin C]] and is strongly acidic.
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• Epiphytes
  ...ose plants that do not grow in earth or water, but are supported in air on trees or other objects and usually drawing no organic nourishment from such objec ...osses and liverworts all contribute many examples; and in the lower groups of plants the lichens are in some regions dominantly epiphytic.
  7 KB (1,189 words) - 21:43, 22 September 2009
• Sabal palmetto
  |origin=N Carolina to Florida ...It is the [[List of U.S. state trees|state tree]] of South Carolina and Florida.
  9 KB (1,407 words) - 23:08, 6 May 2010
• Tangelo
  ...acters, being a slightly pear-shaped thin-skinned smooth and shining fruit of medium to large size, pale orange in color, and with a rather acid sprightl The Thornton is another tangelo, a hybrid of tangerine with a Florida grapefruit. It is a rough thick-skinned round fruit with very pale orange-c
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• Mammea americana
  ...terally dehiscent: fr. globose, 3-6 in. diam., russet, seeds 1-4. A native of the W. Indies and N. S. Amer. ...in California, so far as known, and is probably too tender for any section of that state.
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• Bauhinia
  ...species of [[flowering plant]]s in the [[subfamily]] [[Caesalpinioideae]] of the large [[flowering plant]] family [[Fabaceae]], with a [[pantropical]] d Bauhinia trees typically reach a height of 6-12 m and their branches spread 3-6 m outwards. The lobed leaves usually a
  9 KB (1,407 words) - 18:54, 1 March 2010
• Roystonea regia
  |common_name=Cuban royal palm, Florida royal palm, royal palm |image_caption=Native habitat in Florida
  7 KB (1,063 words) - 16:53, 24 February 2010
• Grapefruit
  ...ified with the [[pomelo]] or shaddock (''C. maxima''), one of the parents of this hybrid, the other being [[sweet orange]] (''C. × ​sinensis''). ...lude white, pink and red pulps of varying sweetness. The 1929 US Ruby Red (of the Redblush variety) has the first grapefruit [[patent]].<ref name="txswee
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