The Gumbo Limbo Tree
by Mitch Spence
Title
The Gumbo Limbo Tree
Artist
Mitch Spence
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Photograph
Description
This beautiful specimen of a gumbo limbo tree lives at the Calusa Nature Center on Pine Island in southwest Florida. You can see the grand size of the tree by comparison with the bench that sits in front of it. The gumbo limbo (Bursera simaruba), also commonly known as copperwood, chaca, and turpentine tree, is native to tropical regions of the Americas from South Florida to Mexico and the Caribbean to Brazil and Venezuela. It has showy red bark and interesting branches low to the ground. The bark peels back from the trunk at times, giving the tree the local Florida nickname of "tourist tree" because that peeling bark reminds one of sunburned skin.
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May 21st, 2019
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