Tree Colony Bahia Honda Key
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Markerman62
N 24° 39.348 W 081° 16.719
17R E 471803 N 2726864
Located near the old bridge on Bahia Honda Key.
Waymark Code: WMMG48
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 09/15/2014
Views: 11
Side 1
Since about 1870, botanists from all over the world have been visiting Bahia Honda Key to study the plants brought here by the birds, the hurricane winds, and the ocean waves from all the islands of the West Indies and the Caribbean Sea.
The very rare plants that are found growing as a native plant only on Bahia Honda Key are the West Indies satinwood, or yellowwood tree (Zanthoxylum flavum), the Catesbaea, Jamaica morning-glory (Jaquemontia jamaicensis), and wild dilly (Mimusops).
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Side 2
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Beautiful and colorful plants from the West Indies known in the Keys and South Florida areas are the Geiger tree (orange flowers), wild Alamanda (yellow flowers), sea-lavender (fragrant white flowers and ash-gray leaves), key spiderlily (white flowers), bay cedar (yellow flowers), and the thatch and silver palms.
Marker Number: F-161
Date: 1968
County: Monroe
Marker Type: Roadside
Sponsored or placed by: Florida Board of Parks and Historic Memorials
Website: Not listed
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