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Gifford Arboretum

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Ficus altissima - Council Tree

If you didn’t already feel the distance from a home north of the 45th parallel more than three thousand miles away, the trees of Gifford Arboretum in Coral Gables, Florida, provide a clear reminder. Located in the heart of the sub-tropical world, southern Florida is home to plants that are simply exotic by comparison to almost any other region of the United States. In Florida, you certainly aren’t in oak country anymore and absent, too, are the bright azaleas and tall pines so prevalent in other Eastern and Southern landscapes. Rather, this is a land of short native palms, mangroves, exotic mahoganies, shaving brush trees, and  chenille plants. At Gifford, it is possible, within a fairly short sojourn, to encounter a world of plants that is more diverse than you might ever have imagined.

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Gifford Arboretum

Hibiscus schizopetalus - Fringed Rosemallow

                                            
231 Cox Science Center
1301 Memorial Drive. University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL 33146
305-284-1302

www.bio.miami.edu/arboretum/

Admission is free

Established 1947
About 5 acres. About 400 tree species are represented

USDA Hardiness Zone 10B

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