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The yellow elder attracts many bees, butterlies and hummingbirds. Like the allamanda, the yellow elder is a yellow, trumpet-shaped flower, although it is smaller than the allamanda and grows in clusters. The fruit grows inside a hard brown shell. The sticky, sweet, brown fruit of the tamarind tree is used very often in cooking. Since the seagrape tree prefers dry, salty soil it is often seen growing close to the ocean. The preserve celebrates the plants of The Bahamas, protects the woodland coppice, mangrove forest, and wetlands, and has the goal of conserving indigenous species. The seagrape tree has lovely waxy, round leaves and produces dark purple grapes. This 25acre sanctuary, created jointly by the Bahamas National Trust (BNT) and the Leon Levy Foundation, is the first National Park on Eleuthera, and is said to be the first of its kind in the region. The tree is very popular in the Bahamas because of its beauty. When the royal poinciana blooms during the summer months it is vividly orange and strikingly beautiful! The flowers then fall to the ground and create a thick deep-orange carpet. It grows very slowly and some lignum vitae trees have lived as long as 1000 years. It is so dense it will not float, even in seawater. It is often called ironwood because it is one of the hardest woods in the world. The lignum vitae is the national tree of the Bahamas. It blooms all year round and it's flowers are edible. The hibiscus is very common in tropical regions and comes in a large variety of colours and even sizes and petal-shapes. The flowers are most fragrant during the night. Be careful not to stand right underneath a coconut tree!Ī very sweet smelling flower, the frangipani is used mostly for decoration because it is so beautiful. Coconut trees are commonly found all over the Bahamas. The coconut tree is one of the most useful plants to mankind, as it has been used for food, oil, fuel, building material and rope.
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The casurina tree is considered an invader because it is not indigenous to the Bahamas and it inhibits other plants from growing. It has thin, needle-like leaves which cover the ground like a carpet when they fall. It is a very fast growing tree and does well in poor or sandy soil.
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This plant can be seen all over the bahamas usually growing alng the shoreline. Sometimes bougainvillea is called the "Paper Flower" because it is so thin and papery. Actually, the true flower of the plant is very small and usually white, but each cluster of three flowers is surrounded by special brightly colored leaves. The delicate paper-like flowers grow on thorny vines that can become very bushy and thick. It has a delicate, fruity fragrance and the milky sap is poisonous.īougainvillea comes in many colours from white to yellow and orange, to deep pink and purple. The allamanda, a yellow trumpet-shaped flower, is also known as "wild unction" in the Bahamas.