[PCA] NEWS: The mystery of South Florida's runaway mangroves

Kwong, Olivia okwong at blm.gov
Wed Sep 2 10:27:50 CDT 2015


http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article32404647.html

The mystery of South Florida's runaway mangroves
August 25, 2015
By Jenny Staletovich

Behind the manicured hedges of Coconut Grove and Coral Gables, a bit of a
horticultural mystery has taken root, one tied to one of the most famous
names in botany: David Fairchild.

During the heady days of botanical gardens, when plant explorers scoured
the globe in search of exotic trophies to display back home, Fairchild
collected two hardy mangrove trees while traveling in Indonesia. In the
1940s, he planted the trees, radiant specimens of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza
with flaming, lipstick red flowers, at his house on Douglas Road, now a
little jewel of a botanical garden known as The Kampong. Thirty years
later, horticulturists at the more expansive and renowned botanical garden
that bears his name off Old Cutler Road planted a second Asian species,
Lumnitzera racemosa.

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