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PICTURE GUIDE TO
TREES OF GLOVER’S REEF ATOLL
INDIAN ALMOND Terminalia catappa
FIG Ficus sp.
CANISTEL Pouteria campechiana
ZIRICOTE Cordia sebestena
SEASIDE MAHO Thespesia populnea
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PICTURE GUIDE TO
TREES OF GLOVER’S REEF ATOLL
SEA GRAPE Coccoloba uvifera
BUTTONWOOD Conocarpus erectus
BLACK MANGROVE Avicennia germinans
WHITE MANGROVE Laguncularia racemosa
RED MANGROVE Rhizophora mangle
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PICTURE GUIDE TO
TREES OF GLOVER’S REEF ATOLL
CHIT PALM Thrinax radiata
COCONUT PALM Cocos nucifera BANANA Musa sp.
COCO PLUM Chrysobalanus icaco
GUMBO LIMBO Bursera simaruba
NONI TREE Morinda citrifolia
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PICTURE GUIDE TO
TREES OF GLOVER’S REEF ATOLL
SCREW PALM Pandanus sp. (introduced, Southwest Caye)
AUSTRALIAN PINE Casuarina sp. (introduced, Southwest Caye)
For detailed species descriptions and information on habitat, life history, and distribution, go to
“THE PLANTS OF CAYE CAULKER” by J. Reitsma and D. Beveridge (Belize Tourism Industry Association)
or the web site “PlantBase” http://www.plantbase.net/
Glover’s Reef Atoll mages by Tom Bright and Alex Tilley
Wikimedia Commons images from elsewhere by Hans Hillewaert and Tau’olunga are used under
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic licenses
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:CC-BY-SA
and the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.2 http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
This may be duplicated for educational purposes in compliance with the above licenses (November, 2010)
This Guide was created for WCS by biologist and former Glover’s Reef Research Station Manager Tom Bright
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY
Glover’s Reef Research Station, Belize
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