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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 .
Gopher wood or gopherwood is a term used once in the Bible, to describe the material used to construct Noah's Ark. Genesis 6:14 states that Noah was instructed to build the Ark of gofer ( גֹפֶר ), commonly transliterated as gopher wood, a word not otherwise used in the Bible or the Hebrew language in general (a hapax legomenon ).
Torreya State Park is a 13,735 acre (56 km 2) Florida State Park, United States National Natural Landmark and historic site thirteen miles (19 km) north of Bristol.It is located north of S.R 12 on the Apalachicola River, in northwestern Florida (Florida Panhandle), at 2576 N.W. Torreya Park Road.
Ripe seeds of Torreya taxifolia †Torreya clarnensis has been described from Middle Eocene fossils found in the Clarno Formation of Central Oregon, United States. [10] Leafy branch fossils of †Torreya bilinica are known from Oligocene strata of Zichov near Bílina, Czech Republic, early Miocene deposits of Güvem central Anatolia, Turkey and late Miocene deposits of Spain.
Castaway Island Preserve is a 311-acre nature park in eastern Jacksonville, Florida that abuts the west bank of the Intracoastal Waterway. It received an Award of Honor in 2004 from the American Society of Landscape Architects [ 2 ] and is wheelchair accessible .
Allen David Broussard Catfish Creek Preserve is a Florida State Park, located about ten miles east of Dundee, off US 27. This region is part of the Atlantic coastal plain. In 2024 an addition was announced including land fronting Lake Pierce. There is a "Catfish Creek Florida Forever Project".
I followed the link from here to T. taxifolia (the Torreya Tree an endangered species that lives only in one state park in north Florida), which I'm familiar with from growing up in Florida. A bit more research showed that a local preacher had the idea that the Torreya is the Biblical "gopherwood" and the Garden of Eden was nearby.
Vulnerable wildlife species found in the area include Florida panther, Florida black bear, sandhill crane, wood stork and gopher tortoise. [8] Settlements in the Southwestern Florida Flatwoods include Tampa, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Sarasota, Port Charlotte, Cape Coral, Lehigh Acres, Immokalee, and the coastal edges of Bonita Springs and Naples.