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| Flat Stanley helping drive the boat to Greecian Reef off Key Largo. The lighter water is caused by the sun reflecting of the sand under the water. Flat Stanley is very happy to be there! |
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| Flat Stanley swimming off Key Largo! |
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| There are lots of tropical fruits grown near the Everglades. A boy age 6 named Robert started a fruit stand just outside the entrance to the Everglades National Park in 1959. We stopped and bought some really good fruit. Brooklyn had an avocado for snack today in Maine, just like Flat Stanley did in Florida! |
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| Wow! Flat Stanley peeking out from behind a giant fruit called Jackfruit! Was it good, Stanley? |
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The
Royal Palm (Roystonea Elata) is an aristocratic palm tree that can
reach 120 feet. The leaves are pinnate, bright green, and can grow to
almost twenty feet in length. The cement gray trunk is wider at the
base, and the fragrance of the small, creamy flowers can be detected
from 100 feet away. Fruit are purple and around one half inch in
diameter.
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| Perhaps the most famous hemiepiphyte is the towering strangler fig tree which starts life as a tiny seed in the canopy. The roots grow down to the forest floor where they take root and begin to take nutrients from the soil. Gradually the roots wrap around the host tree, widen, and slowly form a lattice-work that surrounds the host's trunk. The fig's crown grows foliage which soon overshadows the tree. Eventually, the host tree dies leaving the fig with a hollow trunk—which is easily climbed thanks to the many openings in the trunk. That is a great climbing tree for Stanley! |
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Grasslands of the Everglades.
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