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There's a swamp in Ocala National Forest that contains the southernmost known White Cedar stand. It's located in Juniper Prairie Wilderness Area at the headwaters of a small partially spring fed creek called Mormon Branch. It's described by Mary Byrd Davis (in Old Growth In The East: A Survey) as co...

Attached is a spreadsheet export of the Florida Dept. of Forestry Champion Tree database as of 11-7-2016. It doesn't contain the entries on non-public land. And the state DOF has implemented a rule that only trees with at least 80% of the current champion's points will be considered. They have since...

Good to hear, [i] [/i] Are there any native figs there, or are they all further south, or in different habitats? 3 large ficus species native to Florida are Ficus Americana, F. citrifolia, and F. Auria. Auria ranges into central Florida according to USF's Institute for Systematic Botany (http://flo...

I've been searching to no avail for any tree age data on the Swamp Laurel Oak, Quercus laurifolia. Literature lists their typical lifespan as around 70 years, short lived as oaks go. They are capable of reaching heights of 100', almost equal spreads, and DBHs of 7.5', and I've been wondering what ag...

Thanks! Ya it was Feb but I hadn't posted until this. I was surprised to find no mention of the Tosohatchee WMA here, it contains a large area of the most undisturbed forests I've seen. I'm racking up tree after tree to submit to the Florida champion tree register, and that's with their 80% of curre...

In the Tosohatchee WMA in Orange County Florida there are substantial tracts of hydric hammock that show little to no evidence of logging and I think likely have an undisturbed forest structure that could go back thousands of years or even as far as the beginning of the holocene. Live Oaks often dom...

Hello all! I'm a native Florida son of a biologist and searching for superlatives in nature is a hobby of mine. Recently I have been systematically exploring a remarkable site in eastern Orange County Florida called the Tosohatchee Wildlife Management area. It contains an estimated 900 acres of old ...