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The Dicot
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Many
main branches were twisted or ripped off of large trees.
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Barb
Bohnsack provides scale to this huge Ficus tree, whose broken
trunk piece snapped off a large
gumbo limbo as it fell.
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Our
largest and most prized rainbow eucalyptus (Eucalyptus deglupta)
lost one of its
primary branches.
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The
branch stuck in the gumbo limbo tree in the photo on the left came from
a tall Terminalia tree about 100 feet away; the photo on the
right shows how this branch matches up with the place where it broke
off.
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The
large banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) in the Cycad Walk
suffered some serious damage
this time; this tree weathered Hurricane Andrew, Hurricane Katrina,
and other storms without receiving this much damage.
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All
of the sausage-like fruit dropped off of this
African sausage tree (Kigelia africana).
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This
sausage tree lost a huge branch
in the employee parking lot.
Not a good parking place!
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This
large oak tree is dwarfed by the giant
gumbo limbo trees in the background that were
almost completely untouched.
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This
Bulnesia arborea snapped, while others on the
property were blown down; the foliage is so dense in these trees, they
act like
umbrellas in the wind.
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The Cycad
Collection
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As
with Katrina, most of the cycads fared quite well during Wilma; this Cycas
litoralis lost most of its leaves, but it will recover completely.
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Many
of the "bamboo" cycads in the Asia 4 bed (e.g., Cycas bifida, C.
micholitzii, C. multipinnata) also lost leaves but
should recover fully.
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Even
though it looks like it took a direct hit from a large oak tree, the Encephalartos
ferox on the right was not damaged because the tree missed the apex.
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Several
Cycas rumphii plants were re-uprooted after being staked following
Katrina.
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Wind-torn
and sun-burned, this Zamia elegantissima is in the America 6
bed, which, between Hurricanes Katrina and Wilma, lost nearly all of
its shade trees.
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Orange
circles were painted around
many of our smaller cycads (such as this young Lepidozamia hopei)
prior to the storm so they could be seen if debris piled on top of
them.
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