Summary ⁷

Licania michauxii, commonly known as Gopher Apple, is an evergreen shrub. It grows in the sandhills of peninsular Florida as well as coastal Mississippi and Georgia, and its fruit is eaten by wildlife and is being used in cancer research. It fruit is a food source for the gopher tortoise.

National distribution ⁸

United States

Regularity: Regularly occurring

Currently: Unknown/Undetermined

Confidence: Confident

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Scott Zona, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://www.flickr.com/photos/12017190@N06/5616798716
2. (c) Sharpj99, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8155/7423007716_eefa32dd33_o.jpg
3. (c) Mary Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7087/7397825684_6d75332247_o.jpg
4. (c) Sharpj99, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5160/7423007492_b115be1b58_o.jpg
5. (c) Sharpj99, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8016/6965193672_5b4a7c6668_b.jpg
6. (c) Kari A.Segraves, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu/segraveska/ks573
7. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licania_michauxii
8. (c) NatureServe, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), http://eol.org/data_objects/28973727

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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