Sunday, November 4, 2012

Joewood


 10/29/2012  Plantation Botanical Garden, Plantation

 10/29/2012  Plantation Botanical Garden, Plantation

Joewood = Jacquinia keyensis
Family: Theophrastaceae
Native to Florida, fairly common in the Keys
along the ecotone between mangrove swamps
and hammocks.

Medium to large shrub, rarely a small tree.
Trunks short and straight with thin bark, smooth 
and gray.  Leaves leathery about 1-3" long.

January 5, 2019 I found the flower:-)

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