Champion Trees

Details for 1265

General Information

: GUMBO-LIMBO
: Bursera simaruba
: Broadleaf
: National Champion Nominee
: 9/16/2022 Map: View
: Monroe : Public
: Tree is located in the Green Turtle Hammock Nature Preserve near MM 81.2 (bayside), at 81224 Overseas Hwy, Islamorada, FL 33036). The tree is one of several very large Gumbo Limbo specimens located just inside the park’s exit gate.
: 24.91024 : -80.64474

Measurement Information

: 62 : 49
: 128 : 37
: 1.4 : 179
: 8/24/2021
: New Nomination
: MARK B TOROK

: Good(Mature, healthy)

Nomination Comments

The circumference was taken 1.4ft above ground on the west side of the tree just above a large root. Also, after a few hours of careful work in two sessions by Frezza & Duquesnel, completed on the same day as these measurements, the tree was released from entrapment by encircling roots of an epiphytic Pitchapple (Clusia rosea). Deep grooves mark the trunk where roots had been embedded and a portion of Clusia trunk remained entrapped in crotch of Gumbo Limbo’s forked trunk.

Nominator Name: Jim Duquesnel

Owner Name: Islamorada Village of Islands

Phone: 305-664-6400

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