Identification Guide For Invasive Exotic Plants of the Florida Keys

Scientific Name:
Common Name(s):
Terminalia catappa
Tropical Almond, wild almond
Height:
Leaves:
Flowers:
Bark:
Fruit:
Other:
Treatment:
up to 90 feet
Horizontal whorls of branches offering clusters of foot long leaves that turn
pink-red before falling. The leaves form a rosette and are found only at the
end of a branch.
The flowers are axillary and occur in slender spikes. Small, greenish-white in
short elongated clusters, appearing on upper leaf axils.
Grey, fissured, flaky but not ridged.
The fruit is flattened or compressed and narrowly winged The green almondshaped
fruit turns red to purple when ripe.
During the dry season, the leaves turn into autumn colors of red, copper,
gold. The tree usually sheds all its leaves twice a year.
Basal with 10% Garlon 4 or stump with 50% Garlon 3A
Identification & Biology of Non-Native Plants in
Florida’s Natural Areas by K.A Langeland,
K. Craddock Burks
www.plantatlas.usf.edu
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