buttonwood

In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prairie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip.

As part of the Neat Streets initiative, the city will plant 101 trees, including Simpson Stoppers (Myrcianthes fragrans), Wild Tamarinds (Lysiloma bahamensis), Gumbo Limbos (Bursera simaruba), Green Buttonwoods (Conocarpus erectus) and several other Florida-friendly tree species to provide shade and beautify their community.

Miss Tucker, a skilled silviculturist, divided local trees into categories - magnolias, lindens, walnuts, ash, horse chestnuts, sumacs and locusts, nettle trees, buttonwoods, oaks, chestnut and beech, etc.

The path continues through a stand of buttonwoods, emerging at Big Grassy Lagoon, where you can sit quietly and enjoy the sights and sounds of nature.

Replacing exotic plants with native species such as mangroves, buttonwoods and various native grasses will allow for the creation and installation of microhabitats representative of the types that naturally make up the bay system (mangrove forest, salt marsh, etc.).

In Florida, we have four: red, black, white and buttonwood. To anglers, some are more important than others.

abbreviatus, including green buttonwood, Conocarpus erectus L.