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Amida Frey, left, pulls a wagon with free trees he received during Miami-Dade County’s Adopt-a-Tree event outside of the Dennis C. Moss Cultural Arts Center on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023, in ...
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is an 83-acre (34 ha) botanic garden with extensive collections of rare tropical plants including palms, cycads, flowering trees, and vines. It is located in the city of Coral Gables, Miami-Dade County, just south of Miami, surrounded at the north and west by Matheson Hammock Park.
That’s especially apparent when it comes to tree canopy. The “haves” often reside in neighborhoods like Coral Gables, Pinecrest and Miami Beach, where oaks and other trees shade beautiful homes.
Around 9% of all pine rockland plants found in Miami-Dade County alone are endemic to Florida, and around 14 taxa are endemic to the Miami-Dade pine rockland itself. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Overall, there are over 537 plant species found throughout the south Florida rocklands.
On the Miami Rock Ridge, a mature hammock will have a closed canopy at 18 m (59 ft) or less, while those on the Florida Keys have a canopy 9 to 12 m (30 to 39 ft) tall. [3] The tropical hardwood hammock shrub and herb layer is sparse, mostly consisting of seedlings and saplings of canopy and subcanopy trees and shrubs.
The mango trees on his Homestead farm usually provide enough fruit for the whole year, up to 1,000 pounds. This year, he notes, “there were about 10 mangoes on the trees.”