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Bahama Wild-coffee

Psychotria ligustrifolia

Specimen or hedge plant.

Extremely versatile
Distinctive-looking fruit with spiked exterior
Beautiful rounded canopy
Majestic and graceful

Mexican Alvaradoa

Alvaradoa amorphoides

This is listed as an ENDANGERED by the State of Florida An excellent accent shrub or small tree with open, spreading crown. Attractive fine textured, thin leaves and long, hanging spikes of flowers. Dioecious with male and female flowers on separate plants.

Attractive glossy leaves
Raised diamond-shaped trunk pattern
Silvery blue-green fronds
Elegant appearance

Krug's Holly

Ilex krugiana

Listed as Threatened in Florida. Please acquire only from appropriately licensed sources. Specimen tree or understory tree.

Flowers year round
Highly versatile
Will not tolerate frost
Not as popular as it once was
Unique swollen blue-green to silver trunk

Ciliate Redtop Panicum

Coleataenia longiflora

Restoration proects and casual moist-site plantings.

Magnificent showy flowers in summer
Elegant and compact
Will not tolerate frost
Symmetrical shape
Attractive symmetrical appearance

Bloodberry

Varronia globosa

Background shrub.

Not recommended
Readily pruned into attractive shapes
Elegant and compact
Salt tolerant

Winged Sumac

Rhus copallinum

Compound leaf has "wings" of tissue along the leaf-stem (rachis). This is one of the few shrubs that produces brilliant red fall color in much of Florida.

Wind tolerant
Prominent pale green or blue-gray crownshaft
Adequate moisture required
Wonderfully fragrant flowers
Pleasant rounded shape
Does best with periodic fertalization

Scrub Oak

Quercus inopina

Endemic to the sand ridges of central and northern peninsular Florida. Forms a thicket with many sprouts from underground stems.

Available multi-stalked
Tall and stately
Narrow crown
Somewhat drought tolerant