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Blowing Rocks Plant List |
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Blowing Rocks-Featured Plants
1. Beach Star Ramirea maritima Star-shaped beach and dune sedge
2. Coralbean Erythrina herbacea Long tubular red flowers; leaves with 3 leaflets
3. Fiddlewood Citharexylum spinosum Tree or shrub with orange petioles; leaf veins smoothly curved; little white flowers
4. Inkwood Exothea paniculata Leaflets in twosies (see also Blackbead)
5. Ironwood (Black Ironwood) Krugiodendron ferreum Leaves partly alternate, partly opposite
6. Jamaica Caper Capparis cynophallophora Leaves silvery-brown beneath; the bud looks like a knife blade
7. Lancewood Nectandra coriacea Leaves look like a lance tip, fragrant when crushed
8. Nickerbean Caesalpinia bonduc Leaves look like big fronds, the plant thorny, the pod resembling a porcupine
9. White Stopper Eugenia axillaris Leaves opposite, the tips acute (vs. rounded in Spanish Stopper)
10. Myrsine Rapanea punctata Flowers or berries along the stem
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