Seashore Plants of South Florida and the Caribbean A Guide to Knowing and Growing Drought- And Salt-Tolerant Plants

by Nellis, David W.

• ISBN13: 9781561640560
• ISBN10: 1561640565
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-01-01
• Publisher: Ingram Book Co

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(10)
The Plants	17	(1)
THE PLANTS
Coast sandbur	17	(1)
Salt marsh cordgrass	18	(1)
Sea oats	19	(2)
Seashore rush grass	21	(1)
Seashore saltgrass	22	(2)
Turtle grass	24	(1)
Coastal sedge	25	(1)
Spike rush	26	(1)
Coconut palm	26	(2)
Silver palm	28	(2)
Aloe	30	(2)
Spanish bayonet	32	(1)
Century plant	33	(2)
Spanish moss	35	(2)
Pinguin	37	(2)
Cliff orchid	39	(2)
Australian beefwood	41	(2)
Shortleaf fig	43	(1)
Sea grape	44	(2)
Samphire, salt-weed	46	(1)
Sea-blight	46	(1)
Glasswort	47	(2)
Black mampoo	49	(1)
Water mampoo	50	(1)
Saltwort	51	(1)
Sea Purslane	52	(2)
Common Purslane	54	(2)
Hairy portulaca	56	(1)
Sea rocket	57	(1)
Limber caper	58	(1)
Jamaica caper	59	(1)
Cocoplum	60	(2)
Nicker bean	62	(2)
Pride of Barbados	64	(1)
Tamarind	65	(3)
Coin vine	68	(2)
Beach pea	70	(1)
Coralbean	71	(2)
Jamaica dogwood	73	(2)
Lignumvitae	75	(2)
Limeberry	77	(1)
Leatherleaf	78	(1)
Bay cedar	79	(2)
Gumbo-limbo	81	(2)
Bushy spurge	83	(1)
Coast spurge	84	(1)
Manchineel	85	(2)
Croton	87	(1)
Christmas bush	88	(1)
Marble tree	89	(1)
Poison cherry	90	(1)
Seaside maho	91	(1)
Sida	92	(2)
Sea hibiscus	94	(2)
Pitch apple	96	(1)
Wild cinnamon	97	(2)
Yellow alder	99	(1)
Woolly nipple cactus	100	(1)
Turk's cap cactus	101	(2)
Prickly pear cactus	103	(1)
Dildo cactus	104	(1)
Red mangrove	105	(3)
Buttonwood	108	(1)
White mangrove	109	(2)
Indian almond	111	(3)
Torchwood	114	(1)
Guiana rapanea, Myrsine	115	(1)
Frangipani	116	(2)
Periwinkle	118	(2)
Oleander	120	(2)
Wild alamanda	122	(1)
Beach milk vine	123	(1)
Beach morning-glory	123	(2)
Moon vine	125	(2)
Pigeon berry	127	(1)
Geiger tree	128	(1)
Seaside heliotrope	129	(2)
Bay lavender	131	(1)
Black mangrove	132	(2)
Haggarbush	134	(2)
Wild sage, lantana	136	(1)
Pink cedar	137	(2)
White-alling	139	(1)
Golden creeper	140	(2)
Morinda	142	(1)
Sandfly bush	143	(1)
Strumpfia	144	(1)
Seven year apple	145	(2)
Inkberry	147	(1)
Sea ox-eye	148	(2)
Trailing wedelia	150	(1)
Marsh fleabane	151	(1)
Wild lettuce	152	(1)
Beach sunflower	153	(2)
References	155	(2)
Index	157