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Spiny Shrub for So-Flo

DoomsDave

By DoomsDave
in TROPICAL LOOKING PLANTS - Other Than Palms

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DoomsDave Grand Master

DoomsDave

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Howdyall:

What's a nasty spiny shrub that grows in So-Flo?  I know that Natal Plum will grow there, but any others?

Let me know.

For a novel . . .

dave

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Severinia buxifolia, Boxthorn and Triphasia trifolia, Lime Berry are both close Citrus relatives and grow in central and southern FL. They are both spiny. Duranta erecta, Golden Dew Drop is also spiny.

Eric

Orlando, FL

zone 9b/10a

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Eric!

Thanks!

Hmm.  Anything unique to So-Flo that's NASTY spiny, like a bougainvillea or natal plum?

dave

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ron@springhammock Community Regular

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Grey nicker bean, grey nickernut or sea pearl, Caesalpinia bundoc, grows on coastal dunes in South Florida and has nasty thorns all over including the seed pods.  It's a ramblin bush that will catch and hold you if you're within ten feet of it.  It's worse than my Lawyer Cane, Calamus caryotoides ; maybe they should call it Lawyer Bean :P

These aren't big spines like you find on bougainvillea or natal plum; maybe you're looking for something like an acacia?

Central Florida, 28.42N 81.18W, Elev. 14m

Zone 9b

Summers 33/22C, Winters 22/10C Record Low -7C

Rain 6cm - 17cm/month with wet summers 122cm annually

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Jerry@TreeZoo Grand Master

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Dave,

Are you looking or a landscape plant or something a hapless fictitious person would come across in a native habitat?

Wild Lime, Hercules Club and Randia aculeata are all spiny natives of wetland hardwood hamocks.  Prickly Pear cactus and Spanish Bayonet are native to the beaches.  Don't forget about Saw Palmetto and Paurotis palms, two wickedly armed individuals.

Jerry

So many species,

so little time.

Coconut Creek, Florida

Zone 10b (Zone 11 except for once evey 10 or 20 years)

Last Freeze: 2011,50 Miles North of Fairchilds

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DoomsDave Grand Master

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Thanks to everyone for their input.

A little kid climbs up on the roof of his house, and his daddy orders him down, and he falls -- in the nude -- into this spiny plant, and daddy's too soft-hearted to spank him after he gets torn up a bit.

I know a bouganvillea would fit the bill, too.  Natal plum, which grows here, is also a plant I wound't want to fall naked into.  Same with rose bushes . . . .

THanks again for your help!

dave

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