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Torreya taxifolia, commonly known as Florida torreya or stinking-cedar, but also sometimes as Florida nutmeg or gopher wood, is an endangered subcanopy tree of the yew family, Taxaceae. It is native to only a small glacial refugium in the southeastern United States , at the state border region of northern Florida and southwestern Georgia .
Pinus glabra differs markedly from most other pines in that it does not occur in largely pure pine forests, but is typically found as scattered trees in moist woodland habitats in mixed hardwood forest. To be able to compete successfully in such habitats, it has adapted to greater shade tolerance than most other pines.
Illicium: anise-trees; Illicium floridanum: Florida anise-tree Illiciaceae (anise-tree family) Illicium parviflorum: yellow anise-tree Illiciaceae (anise-tree family) Juglandaceae: walnut family; Carya: hickories and pecans; Carya aquatica: water hickory Juglandaceae (walnut family) 401 Carya cordiformis: bitternut hickory Juglandaceae (walnut ...
Palaquium galactoxylum is a rainforest tree growing up to 40 metres (130 ft) high, thus becoming an emegent within the forest ecosystem.It has a very straight cylindrical trunk marked with conspicuous vertical lines of lenticels, usually reaching a diameter of 1 m (3 ft 3 in), [4] but it can grow to 2 m (6 ft 7 in). [5]
In the Florida Peninsula the amount of evergreens increases and species richness decreases as northern deciduous species (American Beech, White Oak) reach their southern limits. Upland Hardwood Forest in Central Florida , at the southern end of its range (especially along the Brooksville Ridge), is often hard to differentiate from Mesic Hammock .
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Named for the trees that once covered the islands, Cedar Key, Florida, is located about four miles out in the Gulf of Mexico and connected to the mainland by a single road that crosses over four ...
Florida companies Teakdecking Systems and Florida Teak imported more than half a million pounds of Burmese teak from Myanmar despite U.S. economic sanctions against the Myanma Timber Enterprise ...