pine rockland plant tour
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Pine Rockland Plant Tour. Susie Cummings TRT Everglades National Park July 3, 2012. Three-in-One Hiking Trail. Wax Myrtle. Wax Myrtle Oil from seeds and leaves were used as candles and scents for candles. Flocks of swallows spiral down to feed on the fruit. Bracken Fern. Bracken Fern - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
PINE ROCKLAND PLANT TOUR
Susie Cummings TRTEverglades National Park
July 3, 2012
Three-in-One Hiking Trail
Wax Myrtle
Wax Myrtle
Oil from seeds and leaves were used as candles and
scents for candles.
Flocks of swallows spiral down to feed on the fruit.
Bracken Fern
Bracken Fern
Woody stalk; yellow and green dyes are
made from the roots.
Pioneer plant –exists 20 years before
surrounding vegetation takes
over.fruit.
Southern Sumac
Southern Sumac
Used for leather making; roots used to
cure diarrhea.
Larvae from red-banded hair streaked butterfly feed on this
shrub.
Saw Palmetto Palm
Saw Palmetto Palm
Fan leaves don’t have strings;
Leaves are used for thatch; fruit is used in
Europe to produce prostate medicine.
Rough leaf – Velvet seed
Rough leaf – Velvet seed
The texture of the
leaf is rough – seeds are velvet; wood is
light brown, hard and heavy.
Stems are used for stakes and fuel.
Tetrazyglia (West Indian Lilac)
Tetrazyglia
Leaf veins channel rain off its surface;
In the Bahamas, a decoction of the leaves is
drunk to reduce night sweats.
Poisonwood
Poisonwood
Dark green leaves with yellow veins; may have black and orange
spots on trunk.
It has highly irritating sap that creates
a rash and blisters on humans.
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Slash Pine
Slash Pine
Harvested for homes in the 1800’s; wood used to
fuel Flagler’s trains.
Flying squirrels and red-headed woodpecker
almost extirpated because of the loss of trees.
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Slash Pine
Slash Pine bark
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Young Slash Pine
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Cheeseshrub
Cheeseshrub
The odor of the fruit is similar to hot limburger
cheese.
The roots produce dyes of yellow and orange; used
for laxatives; treats impotency and mental
illness.
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Cabbage PalmSabal Palmetto
Cabbage Palm/Sabal Palmetto
Looks like the Saw Palmetto Palm but has
strings hanging from the fronds.
The fruit is eaten by many animals and spread from
site to site.
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Ficus / Strangler Fig
Ficus / Strangler Fig
Seed is deposited by birds into crevices of
another tree, not the ground.
Seeds sprout and send roots down the trunk
of the host tree. Strangler fig grows and
squeezes host tree out of the way.
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Myrsine
Myrsine
Spread by birds and mammals; they have little pulp which passes
through the digestive track almost
intact.
Miccosukee used leaves to extend tobacco and called it white tobacco
seasoning tree.
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Greenbrier
Greenbrier (vine)
Birds spread Greenbrier seeds into
every Florida habitat; the fruit are black, waxy
berries.
Berries supply dyes of blue, violet, and
purple.
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Lysiloma
Lysiloma
Smooth-barked tree with light green,
compound leaves.Green-yellow, powder-puff
flowers in summer provide food for flying
insects.
Lichen grows on bark for the liguus tree
snail.
Rice-a-Roni song
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White Fennel
White Fennel
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Tickseed
Tickseed
Yellow flowers with brown center; flowers
year-round.
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White-Top Sedge
White-Top Sedge
4-12 in stalks with white star-like flowers.
Insect pollinated; most sedges are wind
pollinated.
No human uses for this species but in Venezuela
it is used to treat sunstroke.
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Solution Hole
Solution Hole
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Porterweed
Porterweed
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Thistle
Thistle
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Tick Seed
Tick Seed
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Beautyberry
Beautyberry
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