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Posted by Paul-the-other on 05:19:36 08/30/06
Woodpecker condominium for sale. Gated community with restricted access (prickly pear cactus). Grocery store next door (Gumbo Limbo). Playground nearby(metal building for drumming)
Reviewing the life of this tree: about 20 years of "tree", dropping seeds, feeding birds and scores of bees, five years of frond farming and mulch production by the grounds keepers at Hoechoka Hammock(as well as being tree), lightning strike death. Then more mulch from the burned crown, and four years of bird nesting. Soon three more years of decay as detritus and a perfect culture area for peperomia and ground orchids. Eventually, dirt.
What a marvelous creation is the cabbage palm. Certainly a renewable resource. And to think how many of these were hauled away after Wilma for land fill.
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