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INDIAN ALMOND Terminalia catappa

FIG Ficus sp.

CANISTEL Pouteria campechiana

ZIRICOTE Cordia sebestena

SEASIDE MAHO Thespesia populnea

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SEA GRAPE Coccoloba uvifera

BUTTONWOOD Conocarpus erectus

BLACK MANGROVE Avicennia germinans

WHITE MANGROVE Laguncularia racemosa

RED MANGROVE Rhizophora mangle

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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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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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