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	View of a Buttonwood. These type of trees have leathery leaves and small buttonlike heads of green flowers.
	View of Cord grass, which is often found on the coast and is important as a soilbinder.
	Bushy Fleabane.
	View of a Royal Palm. These type of trees may grow up to a height of 100 feet.
	Royal Palms.
	Pigeon Plum.
	Pigeon Plum.
	Corkystem Passionflower.
	Marlberry.
	Krug's Holly.
	View of a Lancewood. The wood of these type of trees may be used for the construction and cabinet work.
	View of a Cocoplum. The plumlike fruit of these types of trees may be used to make jellies and preserves.
	Firebush.
	Detailed view of a Firebush.
	View of a Strangler Fig. These type of trees are found in southern Florida and the West Indies.
	Detailed view of a Strangler Fig.
	Strangler Fig.
	Paradise tree.
	Detailed view of a Paradise tree.
	Leaves.
	View of a Poisonwood. These type of trees will cause a rash on contact.
	Butterfly.
	Detailed view of a Poisonwood.
	Detailed view of tree bark.
	Detailed view of tree bark.
	Snails on the side of a tree.
	Detailed view of a Poinsettia.
	Firebush berries, which may be used for dye.
	View of a Potato tree. Because of its strange smell, this tree was used by Native American hunters to cover human scent.
	Pigeon Plum.
	Detailed view of a Pigeon Plum.
	Potato tree.
	Golden Orb spider.
	In this area of Florida, there is only a shallow layer of topsoil.

 

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