This blog is dedicated to the environmental well-being of our Florida coastal habitat.

This blog is
dedicated to the environmental well-being of coastal habitat.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Gumbo Limbo

Called the "TOURIST TREE".   Here's why....
 Look at that "sunburn" and peeling skin.
This tree is fairly salt-tolerant and wind-tolerant and 
is recommended as a good, hurricane-resistant species.
Gumbo limbo ranges from Cape Canaveral to 
southern Florida, including the Keys.
 Photo by John Sarkozy