Wild Flowering Plants
Combretaceae family Conocarpus erectus Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 176. 1753 “erecta.” Paltivyé wouj. Buttonwood. Indigenous common tree of mangrove swamp edges and occasionally dwarf on coastal cliffs. Anguilla, St. Martin, St. Barthélemy, Barbuda, Antigua, Saba?, St. Eustatius, St. Kitts, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, La Désirade, Marie Galante, Les Saintes, Martinique, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadines, Grenada, Barbados, rest of West Indies, North America, Mesoamerica, South America, tropical western Africa and Angola. There is a cultivated ornamental silver variety. |
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