Location: Fort Pierce Inlet State Park
This is a Gumbo Limbo tree
Great-crested Flycatchers like its fruit.
It's bark is reddish and peels like
The skin of a tourist in a swim suit.
Sources: Florida Native Plant Society - Bursera Simaruba
Photo and text © 2018 Dee Fairbanks Simpson
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