Nature
Field Notes: The Bay Grape
An interesting plant found growing along the seashore is the Bay Grape, or Coccolbis uvifera. Although it is a native plant of Bermuda, it is also found in Southern Florida, along the continental American Coasts and the West Indies. It is assumed that this plant originally reached Bermuda by the seed floating across the sea. This is, or course, theoretical, but there is evidence to support such a theory since the original and most abundant thickets of the Bay Grape…
September 26, 2023
