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  2. Endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia

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    The endemic flora of Trinidad and Tobago includes a total of 59 species of vascular plants belonging to 34 plant families. This is less than 3% of the total vascular plant flora of Trinidad and Tobago. Thirty-nine of these species are endemic to Trinidad, 12 are Tobagonian endemics, and six are present on both islands. [1]

  3. List of trees of the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Roystonea regia. Prior to European settlement, the Caribbean was dominated by forested ecosystems.The insular Caribbean has been considered a biodiversity hotspot. [1] Although species diversity is lower than on mainland systems, endemism is high.

  4. Biota of Trinidad and Tobago - Wikipedia

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    Trinidad and Tobago is home to about 99 species of terrestrial mammals. About 65 of the mammalian species in the islands are bats (including cave roosting, tree and cavity roosting bats and even foliage-tent-making bats; all with widely differing diets from nectar and fruit, to insects, small vertebrates such as fish, frogs, small birds and rodents and even those that consume vertebrate blood).

  5. Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad - Wikipedia

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    This is one of the oldest Botanic Gardens in the world. The landscaped site occupies 61.8 acres (25 hectares) and contains some 700 trees, of which some 13% are indigenous to Trinidad and Tobago, whilst others are collected from every continent of the world . [1] The Gardens are open to the public every day of the year from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

  6. List of palms native to the Caribbean - Wikipedia

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    Oenocarpus bataua is found in Trinidad and along the Caribbean coast of Venezuela, while O. mapora is found on the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Panama. Oenocarpus bataua: [137] Trinidad (also tropical Panama and South America).

  7. Grande Riviere - Wikipedia

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    This was the beginning of the cocoa boom in Trinidad which lasted from 1866 to 1920. [2] Economic life was dominated by the 650-acre (2.6 km 2) Grande Riviere estate, a cocoa plantation which was the major employer in the area. In addition to working as wage labourers on the estate, villagers also grew cocoa on small holdings which was either ...

  8. Trinidad and Tobago moist forests - Wikipedia

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    The island of Trinidad is only 20 km from the mainland of South America, and a land bridge existed as late as 1,500 years ago. So the flora and fauna are most similar to those of the continent. The island of Tobago is a further 40 km from the northern edge of Trinidad, and its land bridge disappeared 11,500 years ago, but its species mix is ...

  9. Trinidad - Wikipedia

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    This is on the southern coast of the island of Trinidad, West Indies. Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies 11 km (6.8 mi) off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is the southernmost island in the West Indies. With an area ...

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