More Than Just Tacky Sunglasses & Ugly Sports Cars - The Botany of Miami's Pine Rocklands скачать в хорошем качестве

More Than Just Tacky Sunglasses & Ugly Sports Cars - The Botany of Miami's Pine Rocklands

Get Surfshark VPN at https://surfshark.deals/botany - Enter promo code BOTANY for 83% off and get 3 extra months for free! --------------------------------------- What did Miami look like before it was all paved? In this video we take a look at one of the most endangered ecosystems in North America - the Pine Rocklands of Southern Florida. Notable for their very thin (almost non-existent) topsoils, fire dependency & affinities with both Northern & tropical plant species, the Pine Rocklands and Hardwood Hammocks of South Florida are the convergence zone of species from more temperate zones to the North and more tropical, Carribean zones to the South. In this plant community, dominated by Pinus densa (Miami slash pine), we also have the United States' only Cycad, Zamia integrifolia (host for the endangered Atala Butterfly) as well as 3 palm species (#Coccothrinax argentata being a favorite, though Serenoa repens is a lovely one, too, prick). Poisonwood trees - Metopium toxiferum - are an itchy relative of poison ivy that takes in the form of a beautiful tree. Psychotria nervosa is a relative of coffee that grows in the hardwood hammocks, along with a number of interesting fern species, such as Anemia adiantifolia. A very many thanks to Lydia Cuni for help in the production of this video. Lydia Cuni is a botanist and an expert in South Florida's plant communities. Without her help and friendship this video would not have been possible. Or at least it certainly would have been more half-assed.