Florida Yew
This critically endangered native Florida plant produces Taxol, an anticancer drug. Florida yew is not harvested commercially due to its…
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Florida Jujube
Scientists thought Florida Jujube was extinct when it was described from a single Florida Museum specimen collected in 1949. It…
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Florida False Rosemary
A species unknown to science until the 1990s, Florida False Rosemary occurs in small populations in very restricted scrub habitats…
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Ferdinand Rugel Collection
The oldest specimens in the Herbarium, gifted by the British Museum in 1970 in exchange for plant identification, document Florida…
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Air Potato
Native to tropical Asia, the Air Potato thrives in Florida due to the warm climate – it can grow 8…
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