Gumbo-Limbo Tree in Everglades 10,000 Islands

The Gumbo Limbo Tree

The gumbo-limbo tree is a huge bushy tree.

Its color is red.
The trunk and branches are thick and covered with resinous, smooth peeling coopery bark.
The bark’s color is a mix of red, brown and green.

The leaves color is green.
The gumbo-limbo tree’s leaves are shaped like ovals.
When the gumbo-limbo trees mature their small oval leaves turn into big bushy leaves.
The gumbo-limbo trees height is 25-40 feet and it is 25-30 feet wide.
The gumbo-limbo tree is called the tourist tree because the red bark looks like a person who has stayed in the sun too long.
The gumbo- limbo tree’s scientific name is Busera Simaruba.
Gumbo-limbos are always cool when you touch its trunk.

Even on the hottest of days.
Gumbo-limbo trees can be used to make carousel horses.
That is how carousel horses were made before plastic was invented.
Because of all of these great features, the gumbo-limbo can survive so well in the Hardwood Hammock.
However the gumbo-limbo tree is considered endangered.