Descriptive
Information
- Field
Marks: "Leaves are alternate, orbicular,
green above with reddish veins, bases typically cordate. The
flowers are very small and borne in racemes nearly year-round.
The fruit is egg shaped, fleshy, hanging in long, grape like clusters,
turning from greenish to red to purple with maturity. The large,
orbicular leaves of the sea grape make it unlikely to be confused
with any other south Florida tree."
- Size:
"Varying widely in habitat from a low, spreading evergreen
shrub to a small tree about 6 m in height."
- General
Habitat: "Sea beaches in tropical America,
including southern Florida. Intense light from of ocean front
is optimum. Soil requirements are of beach sand. Tolerant
of salt widely used on the ocean front."
- Geographic
Range: "Coastal hammocks and dunes, often
used as a landscape plant; from about Hillsborough and Brevard counties
southward along the coasts and throughout the Keys."
- Ecosystems
Where Observed: Flamingo Bay, Eco Pond
- Other
Information: "The thin layer of pulp
around the seed is edible"\
- References:
(Nelson, 1994, p. 256)
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