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Bald Cypress
Taxodium distichum, aka Southern Cypress, White Cypress, is a deciduous conifer that loves seasonally drenched soil in the Gulf Coast Plains.
As a deciduous tree, it loses leaves in winter months, hence taking the name 'Bald Cypress'. A popular ornamental conifer grown for its light, feathery foliage and beautiful autumn colors. When cultivated, as at CGrown Nursery, it can even thrive on well-drained sites.
Black Olive Shady Lady
Bucida buceras, aka Black Olive Tree, Oxhorn Bucida or Shady Lady.
This Florida native is not the common edible olive, despite small, black seed-capsules. It's a tall evergreen tree with wind-resistant branches densely filled with lush, dark bluish-green, leathery leaves often mixed with short spines.. The Shady Lady is also known in Mexico as a Bullet Tree.
Coontie Palm
Actually a cycad, Zamia integrifolia is a small, tough, woody Florida native. Mature, it forms a multi-branched cluster, with a large, tuberous root system.
Zamia Integrifolia is also known as Florida Arrowroot and Wild Sago, as well as Coontie (or koonti) Palm, named by the native Florida Seminoles.
Dahoon Holly
A tree with glossy dark green evergreen leaves, Ilex cassine is a holly native to Florida, commonly known as Dahoon Holly or Cassena.
Grown as an ornamental tree with attractive bright red berries and glossy green leaves, Dahoon Holly appreciates Florida's coastal conditions.
EP Holly
East Palatka Holly, discovered near East Palatka, Florida 85 years ago, has a uniform row growth making it a popular Florida Native for landscape architects and designers.
E P Holly has broad, dull green, rounded leaves. Females are covered with bright red berries in fall and winter, especially higher in the tree.
Green Buttonwood (shrub)
This mangrove shrub is also known as Conocarpus erectus. Florida native requires full sun.
The Green Buttonwood grows on shorelines in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, thriving in high temperatures.
Green Buttonwood (standard)
This mangrove tree is also known as Conocarpus erectus. Florida native requires full sun.
The Green Buttonwood grows on shorelines in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, thriving in high temperatures.
Jamaican Caper
Capparis cyanophallophora naturally inhabits mangrove forests, hammocks and shellmounds in coastal Florida and is extremely drought resistant.
This native Floridian shrub has glossy oval leaves, which are folded together as they emerge, giving a bronzed-colored decor to new growth.
Live Oak
Quercus virginiana or southern live oak is an evergreen oak tree native to the southeast US, and is the state tree of Georgia, a lasting icon of the Old South.
This broad-spreading, evergreen oak provides shade, and can live for centuries. Live Oak is an impressive large-scale landscape tree that needs room.
Myrsine
Myrsine is a genus of tropical and subtropical flowering plant. Ours are grown as ornamental shrubs with leathery, evergreen leaves.
Myrsine is a dense, vertical evergreen shrub that grows up to 15 feet. Great landscaping screens with pretty leaves and shiny, decorative black berries. Native to Florida.
Orange Geiger
Cordia sebestena is also known as Orange Geiger Tree, Broadleaf Cordia, Geiger Tree. A common tree used for landscaping throughout South Florida.
Orange Geiger is an evergreen tree that can flower often, especially June and July. Brilliant deep orange flowers are clustered like geraniums.
Sea Grape
Coccoloba uvifera is a flowering plant native to Florida and coastal beaches. Other common names include Seagrape and Baygrape.
Sprawling evergreen shrub grows about 20 feet tall. Big, round, leathery leaves turn red with age. Large grape-like fruit ripens to a purplish color. Requires full sun or partial shade.
Simpsons Stopper
Myrcianthes fragrans, a member of the eucalyptus family and also known as Simpson Stopper or Twinberry Stopper, is an attractive, native plant to Florida. Cold hardy.
Tiny, deep green leaves with frequent fragrant white flowers that become beautiful edible red berries, loved by butterflies and mockingbirds.
