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Approved Native Trees

Common Name Scientific Name Type
Wet, Mucky Soil;
Bald Cypress Taxodium distichum
Size: Medium/Large
Krugiodendron
Black Ironwood Size: Medium
ferreum
Blolly Guapira discolor Size: Small
Butterfly/Host;
Buttonwood Conocarpus erectus
Size: Medium
Cabbage Palm Sabal palmetto Butterfly/Nectar;
(Sabal Palm) Size: Medium/Large
Crabwood Gymnanthes lucida Size: Small
Dahoon Holly Ilex cassine Size: Medium
Sideroxylon
False Mastic Size: Medium
foetidissimum
Florida Strangler Fig Ficus aurea Size: Large
Florida Thatch Palm Thrinax radiata Size: Medium
Butterfly/Host;
Gumbo Limbo Bursera simaruba
Size: Medium/Large
Inkwood Exothea paniculata Size: Medium
Capparis
Jamaican Caper cynophallophora Butterfly/Host
Size: Small
Lancewood Nectandra coriacea Size: Medium
Loblolly Bay Gordonia lasianthus Size: Medium/Large

Paradise Tree Simarouba glauca Size: Medium/Large

Paurotis Palm Acoelorrhaphe Wet, Mucky Soil
wrightii
Size: Medium
Coccoloba Butterfly/Nectar;
Pigeon Plum
diversifolia Size: Medium/Large
Pitch Apple Clusia rosea Size: Large
Butterfly/Host;
Pond Cypress Taxodium ascendens
Size: Large

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