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Asimina triloba
Flowers are dark maroon, not showy. Small specimen tree. Also works well as a component of floodplain forests.
  • Requires ample space and light
  • Available multi-stalked
  • Salt tolerant
  • Massive, breathtaking and impressive
  • Attractive blue-green to silver leaflets
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Zanthoxylum fagara
Fragrant flowers and crushed foliage smells like limes. Dioecious: male and female flowers are on separate plants. Hedge, buffer or screen plant where its thorns will be an asset. Foliage is aromatic.  This author has one growing as a specimen plant and loves its shape and the shiny green rather lacey foliage.
  • Attractive and unique swollen trunk
  • Does best in warmer areas of South Florida
  • Majestic, sprawling canopy
  • Lovely dark green, shiny leaves
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Coccoloba uvifera
Can be pruned. Works well as a specimen plant. Its thick, large leaves make it stand out from most other plants in the landscape. Very useful in settings subject to salt spray.
  • Often draped with Spanish moss
  • Arched, recurving fronds
  • Wonderfully fragrant flowers
  • Wide umbrella-shaped canopy
  • Swollen, succulent branches
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Osmunda regalis var. spectabilis
Lacy specimen plant in wet settings. Useful in fern gardens or beside a shady water feature. Useful around drainage ponds.
  • Tall and romantic
  • Lush, dense shade tree
  • Narrow enough for tight spaces
  • Elegant appearance
  • Easy/Carefree native
  • Elegant and stately
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Fagus grandifolia
Shade tree. It is known for its smooth light gray bark. Its leaves turn yellow and then light brown remaining on the tree until nearly spring and providing interest to the winter landscape. If you are privileged to have this tree in the landscape, retain and protect it.
  • Excellent choice for narrow spaces
  • Excellent small hedge
  • Critically endangered
  • Ideal for smaller spaces
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Liatris gracilis
Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water. Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray
  • Prominant olive crownshaft
  • Highly salt tolerant
  • Raised diamond-shaped trunk pattern
  • Requires shade when young
  • Attractive symmetrical appearance
  • Very showy clusters of flowers
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Sarracenia minor
Pitchers (leaves) are mostly green with red coloration near the upper parts. Bog gardens.
  • Massive stature when mature
  • Attractive tiered canopy
  • Attracts butterflies and bees
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Carpinus caroliniana
Retain if in the landscape. Can be used as a specimen plant in areas not subject to root disturbance.
  • Attractive tiered canopy
  • Cornerstone plant in South Florida
  • Unique swollen blue-green to silver trunk
  • Grows tall, but not massive
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Calamintha dentata
This is a rare plant that should not be disturbed in the wild. Could be used as a border along sandy paths or walkways or as a foundation plant.
  • Colorful fall foliage
  • Native
  • Massive stature when mature
  • Requires shade when young
  • Attractive dark green leaves
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Asimina pygmea
Flowers range from maroon to maroon and white, to maroon and green mixed. One common name is gopherberry - because golpher tortoise eat the fruit. Specimen plant.
  • Massive, breathtaking and impressive
  • Beautiful exotic foliage
  • Attractive mottled bark
  • Wonderfully fragrant at night