Buttonwood
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Buttonwood (in the Combretaceae, the combretum family). A native of Bermuda, tropical North and South America and West Africa. Also known as sea mulberry or button mangrove. It grows out of Bermuda's coastal rocks and survives harsh conditions.
buttonwood Combretaceae Conocarpus erectus L. symbol: COER2
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BUTTONWOOD
Conocarpus erectus
General Notes
Branches droop, and resist breakage. SelecTree lists no cultivars of erectus.
Conocarpus - Buttonwoods
Conocarpus erectus - Button Mangrove; False Mangrove; Florida Buttonwood; Grey Mangrove; Zaragoza Mangrove
Laguncularia - Laguncularia Trees
Laguncularia racemosa - White Mangrove ...
Silver buttonwood tree is a handsome choice for seaside plantings where it thrives with little attention.
Description ...
This tree and the buttonwood (Platanus occidentalis) of the Southern and Western states are both called sycamores because of the general resemblance to the European sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) but the relationship is remote as evidenced by the ...
Green Buttonwood [English]: Conocarpus erectus
Green Buttonwood [English]: Conocarpus erectus 'Card Sound'
Green Buttonwood [English]: Conocarpus erectus 'Momba'
Green Canyons Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Green Canyons' ...
Coastal forests (or hammocks) comprised of tropical hardwoods and buttonwoods are especially vulnerable as they occur on such flood-free sites, created from the deposition of soils left by storms and tidal influences.
Also called Buttonwood or American planetree, the wood is used for furniture, butcher blocks and flooring. The London planetree, P. x acerifolia Willd., with 2-4 fruits per stalk, is commonly planted as a shade tree in urban areas.
Invades marly coastal ridges, tropical hammocks, buttonwood and mangrove forests, tidal marshes and disturbed coastal roadsides. Threatens a number of rare, listed native plant species. FLEPPC Category I ...
Platanus occidentalis
American Planetree, Sycamore, Buttonwood, Buttonball-tree
Platanaceae ...
The American planetree is also called sycamore, buttonwood and buttonball.
Conocarpus erectus
Family: Combretaceae
Button Mangrove, Florida Buttonwood
Origin: Tropical America ...
its natural range, from West Africa to the Pacific coast of tropical America, red mangroves often grow alongside white mangrove (Laguncularia racemosa), black mangrove (Avicennia germinans) and, at more landward, brackish water locations, buttonwood ...
 See also: Green, Sycamore, Plane, May, Mangrove
  
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